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Thicker Than Blood (1998) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 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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