Codeblack Films/Lionsgate will release George Tillman Jr.’s The Inevitable Defeat Of Mister And Pete in theaters on October 11, in a limited release, and will likely roll it out to other ajor markets gradually, depending on how its received early on.

Making its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the drama stars Jennifer Hudson, Skylan Brooks, Anthony Mackie, Jordin Sparks, Jeffrey Wright, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, in a film that sees Jennifer Hudson as a drug addict mother whose arrest forces her son and his best friend to fend for themselves.

During a sweltering summer in New York City, 14-year-old Mister’s hard-living mother is apprehended by the police, leaving the boy and nine-year-old Pete alone to forage for food while dodging child protective services and the destructive scenarios of the Brooklyn projects. Faced with more than any child can be expected to bear, the resourceful Mister nevertheless feels he is an unstoppable force against seemingly unmovable obstacles. But what really keeps the pair in the survival game is much more Mister’s vulnerability than his larger-than-life attitude. The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete is a beautifully observed and tremendously moving film about salvation through friendship and the way transformation sometimes can happen just by holding on long enough.

Skylan Brooks leads the cast as the titular Mister.

The script was penned by Michael Starrbury, and by co-produced by Alicia Keys.

This week, the MPAA tagged the film with an R rating for “language, some drug use and sexual content.“

Zeba Blay saw the film at the Sundance Film Festival this year and reviewed it for S&A, which you can read HERE. In short, she dug it. In fact, you’ll see a quote from her review within the trailer that’s embedded below.