However his life did not begin with such promise…After an honorable discharge from military service, he applied and was accepted to the Federal Law Enforcement Academy at Glynco Georgia, and graduated as a Federal Corrections Officer with the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons and after three years of service, he took a job at Sony Pictures Entertainment working as a Security Officer, and the rest, as they say, is history…Born Antwone Quenton Fisher in an Ohio prison to a teenaged mother, Antwone became a ward of the state and was placed in foster care immediately. He spent two years in a loving foster home, but when Social Services deemed that the foster mother had become too attached to Antwone – coupled with his father having been murdered two months before his birth and determining a reunion with his birth mother would be too difficult for him – Antwone was placed in another home.
2012Unable to locate new placement for him at age 14, Antwone was sent to a reform school for boys in western Pennsylvania where he remained until he graduated high school at age 17. Antwone Fisher the film and cast garnered more than a few award nominations and film awards. Finding Fish a memoir has been published in various countries around the world, and has been translated into the Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish languages.Antwone has worked in Hollywood as a writer and producer for 20 years with an impressive fourteen writing projects or assignments with the major studios.
He also expounds on why it is essential to do these things in order to attain a successful and happy life. He never did have high self-esteem because of his constant abuse as a child. The little boy who was seated at the end of the table represents Antwone and the people around the table represent Antwone’s real family and how he wants to be surrounded by his family.In the movie Antwone Fisher, Antwone did not want to talk at all because he felt he did not need help or that he wasn’t crazy so Dr. Williams made him come to the sessions even if Antwone did not speak.
Fisher survived the cruelties of foster care and the brutalities of homelessness and set on a course of healing after joining the United State Navy where he served his country for eleven years.About how far he has come, Antwone states, “I think back on a childhood full of longing for belonging, and see my life now as what I have created out of my dreams. He has been married to Sophia Adella Luke since 1998. Antwone was conferred the honorary degree for his professional achievements as an author, producer, poet and screenwriter, his loyalty to his community, his personal triumphs and his indomitable spirit of never giving up.Antwone’s first book, Finding Fish a memoir (William Morrow), about his inspiring story became a New York Times best seller. … He was then placed in another foster home where he would suffer twelve years of abuse. Today, Who will Cry for the Little Boy? Whenever Antwone spoke to Cheryl in the movie he always looked insecure and even had to ask Dr. Williams for advice when talking to Cheryl on his first date.
Antwone was not a person with a big ego. Dan Steinberg/Getty Images.
Unable to fully cover all that he wanted in the screenplay (and therefore the film), Antwone decided to write Finding Fish to not only expand on his incredible life’s journey, but to divulge other challenges and triumphs in his life.
The table was filled with delicious looking food, and the little boy was led to the end of the table where he was seated. If it weren’t for Dr. Williams, Antwone wouldn’t have faced his past and gone looking for his family, and if it weren’t for Antwone Dr. Williams wouldn’t have realized the things in his life he had to change. Unfortunately, he would suffer twelve years of abuse at the hands of this new foster family.In addition Antwone’s books have generated over 500,000 units in sales worldwide.Antwone is now entering the theater world with his new stage project, ANTWONE FISHER: a play. A Doctor of Humane Letters from Cleveland State University. The book will be translated into the Chinese language, printed in simplified characters.Antwone Quenton Fisher was born in prison to his teenage mother.
Death. However having graduated as well as being emancipated from foster care, he found himself in the world alone, homeless living on the mean streets of Cleveland Ohio.