Article: `Stevie'.(The Seattle Times)

Byline: Moira Macdonald

"I just don't know what it is about Stevie, but I love him," says Tonya Gregory, smiling shyly into documentarian Steve James' camera. Gregory, a sweet-natured woman with a severe speech impediment, is speaking of her fiance, who's loved by almost nobody else: Stevie Fielding, a troubled young man who currently stands accused of a horrifying crime. Even Tonya thinks he's guilty, but stands by him as his downward spiral continues.

"Stevie" is a remarkable and profoundly sad experience _ a journey into the life of an abused boy who grew up poor, uneducated and ultimately an abuser in rural Illinois. It's also an examination of one ...

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