The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete (2013)

The subtitle of this should be "When Your Father is a John and Your Mother is a Heroin Addict, Defeat is Your Only Option".  But let it not be said that Mister goes down without a fight. 

The setting is in one of the notorious urban section 8 housing projects where the building is at least as dangerous as the streets and you can't buy fresh fruit or vegetables for miles around.  The movie opens on the final day of the school year, and Mister failing 8th grade.  His teacher delineates all the reasons that he cannot pass him and Mister's only response is "Fuck you".

Mister is angry, but he has every reason to be.  He mother shoots up heroin in front of him, gives a guy a blow job in a restaurant to pay for the kids dinner there, and doesn't try very hard to hide that either.  She tells him to stop treating her like a child, but it is clear that she has stopped treating him like a child long ago.  When she gets arrested, she doesn't come home, leaving Mister and his side kick Pete to cope on their own.  The movie is heartbreaking but not violent, and thought provoking.