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  Pressure Cooker

  "Moving, inspirational and tremendously real."

  —Los Angeles Times

  
  

  "A heart-grabbing, awe-inspiring work that needs no embellishment."

  —Philadelphia Inquirer

  
  

  "Engaging and ultimately emotional"

  —Michael Lerman, indieWIRE.com

  
  

  "Gripping, funny and ultimately touching throughout, a feel-good story without the sticky, saccharine residue."

  —Movieline.com

  
  

  "This documentary is breathtakingly equal opportunity in its search for human poetry."

  —Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant Magazine

  
  

  Three seniors at Philadelphia's Frankford High School find an unlikely champion in the kitchen of Wilma Stephenson. A legend in the school system, Mrs. Stephenson's hilariously blunt boot-camp method of teaching Culinary Arts is validated by years of scholarship success.
  
  Against the backdrop of the row homes of working-class Philadelphia, she has helped countless students reach the top culinary schools in the country. And under her fierce direction, the usual distractions of high school are swept aside as Erica, Dudley and Fatoumata prepare to achieve beyond what anyone else expects from them.

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