Light It Up (1999)
Directed by Craig Bolotin
Genres - Drama, Culture & Society, Thriller |
Sub-Genres - Coming-of-Age, Melodrama, Teen Movie, Urban Drama |
Release Date - Nov 10, 1999 (USA) |
Run Time - 100 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Mark Deming
Noted R&B artist and producer Kenneth (Babyface) Edmonds served as executive producer for this tough urban drama. After a shooting incident in a neglected inner-city school leaves a police officer wounded, a group of students holds the cop hostage, in a desperate effort to force improvements to their school. The cast includes another R&B hitmaker, Usher, as well as Forest Whitaker, Vanessa L. Williams, and Rosario Dawson.
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high-school, hostage, police-officer, shooting [crime], inner-city, urban