"Life as a teenager isn't always easy."
A delinquent teenager's only link to society is the attachment he feels towards an older brother-figure. When the older boy starts spending time with a new girlfriend, the teenager begins to feel even more alienated, and gets involved with drugs and the police.
Emilio Estevez
Mark Jennings
Craig Sheffer
Bryon Douglas
Larry B. Scott
Terry Jones
Jill Schoelen
Angela Shepard
Kim Delaney
Cathy Carlson
Barbara Babcock
Mrs. Douglas
Morgan Freeman
Charlie Woods
Francis X. McCarthy
Mr. Carlson
Diane Dorsey
Mrs. Carlson
A delinquent teenager's only link to society is the attachment he feels towards an older brother-figure. When the older boy starts spending time with a new girlfriend, the teenager begins to feel even more alienated, and gets involved with drugs and the police.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.
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