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If filmmaker Minhal Baig has something, it is his good eye for casting. Her standout second feature, “Hala,” featured the dramatic chops of comedian Geraldine Viswanathan, and even her mostly maligned debut, “1 Night,” featured reliable and rising talents like Anna Camp, Isabelle Fuhrmann and Kyle Allen in juicy roles. Now his third film, the Chicago-set period piece “We Grown Now,” relies on the marvelous work of two first-time actors (Blake Cameron James and Gian Knight Ramirez). Baig certainly knows who he wants to see on the big screen, but that clear vision doesn't always translate to the rest of the production. Baig's "We Grown Now," which began in the fall of 1992, is set in and around Chicago's Cabrini-Green public housing complex (best known, at least in film circles, for his starring role in the franchise horror film "Candyman") and follows a pair of young best friends, Malik (James) and Eric (Ramirez), as they go through a particularly difficu...