Fully identified with a preteen heroine facing challenges that have no good solutions, Van Maximilian Carlson's Princess of the Row views even the harshest realities of homelessness through the eyes of someone who stubbornly believes in happy endings.
Sentimental at times but not as cloying as its title may suggest, the polished production benefits from the happily un-cute lead performance of young star Tayler Buck, whose determination suits the weighty social issues driving the plot.
Buck's Alicia, nicknamed Princess in happier times, has bounced through some foster homes but spends much of her time in Los Angeles' Skid Row, tending to her homeless father. (Her mother left long ago.) Beaumont Willis (Edi Gathegi, unshowy in a challenging.
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