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27 August 1993 (USA)
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The ultimate martial art.
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Ex-Special Forces soldier Louis Stevens returns to Miami to find his former high school overrun by drugs and violence...
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Dancing with the Stars: Spotlight on Mark Dacascos with Lacey Schwimmer
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Guaranteed to leave you smiling
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Mark Dacascos | ... | Louis Stevens |
 | Stacey Travis | ... | Dianna |
 | Geoffrey Lewis | ... | Kerrigan |
 | Paco Christian Prieto | ... | Silverio |
| Todd Susman | ... | Cochran |
| Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter | ... | Philippe |
 | Richard Coca | ... | Orlando Aliveres |
| Roman Cardwell | ... | Shay |
 | Ryan Bollman | ... | Donovan |
| Christian Klemash | ... | Eddie |
| John Fionte | ... | Hector Cervantes |
| Joselito 'Amen' Santo | ... | Javier |
| John Gregory Kasper | ... | Coach Kasper |
| Phyllis Sukoff | ... | Mrs. Esposito |
 | Antoni Corone | ... | Green Beret Sergeant |
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Street Fighters
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99 min
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Donovan says he ran Louis' cassette tape through a midi setup. A cassette tape is an isolated prerecorded audio track which cannot be modified through a midi setup, not the way Donovan is describing.
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Referenced in Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley (1998)
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Swang Da Funk
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This is one of those films you can't help enjoying. It's light, fun, undemanding, and an absolute joy to watch. It might not be a gritty urban drama that deals sensitively with youth and alienation in high school, but then neither was "Heathers".
Cinema primarily exists to entertain, and "Only The Strong" does this in spades. Dacascos is the most graceful, watchable martial arts star since Brandon Lee, with an easy charisma that really comes across in a film like this and also the brilliant "Drive". The rest of the cast perform quite nicely as well. The plot and characterisation are admittedly 2-D, but what the hell, it's a 100% schmaltz-free feelgood movie.
Two of my friends actually took up Capoeira after watching this film. How's that for life-changing?