![]() The team even allows her to play, and she's good at it, but of course this isn't enough to win over her hard to pleased dad. ![]() She really wants to reconnect with her father, Darrel (Abdul-Mateen II), and she thinks the only way she can do this is by joining the boy's wrestling team. Monique (Newman) is a teenage girl from the Brooklyn Brownsville neighborhood, who's spent most of her life growing up in foster homes. The film was released by Netflix through it's streaming site, and I found it to be a bit of a tearjerker at times. ![]() It was written and directed by Olivia Newman, and it stars Elvire Emanuelle, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Colman Domingo, Jharrel Jerome, and Jared Kemp. 'FIRST MATCH': Four Stars (Out of Five) The new Netflix drama about a teenage girl from Brooklyn's Brownsville, who's spent years in foster care, that decides that joining the boy's wrestling team is the only way to reconnect with her estranged father.
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