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1998 · 95 mins · English
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Directed by
Richard Pearce
Starring
Mickey Rourke, Dan Futterman, Vincent Laresca, Carlo Alban, Josh Mostel, Peter Maloney

Griffin Byrne, an idealistic new history, English and maths teacher at Father Frank Larkin’s school in a predominantly Latino ghetto, faces a community where most graduates end up in crime and poverty. He takes special interest in Lee Cortes, a silent boy with a prodigious talent for cartoon drawing who constantly wears a Walkman, living under an abusive drug‑dealer brother and a struggling mother. Griffin shelters Lee, battles the surrounding cynicism, and strives to break the cycle despite repeated setbacks and personal cost.

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