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Elias Koteas | ... | Victor Malarek | |
Kerrie Keane | ... | Claire | |
Al Waxman | ... | Stern | |
Daniel Pilon | ... | Banks | |
Michael Sarrazin | ... | Moorcraft | |
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Kahil Karn | ... | Gray (as Kahlil Karn) |
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Vittorio Rossi | ... | Marroni |
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Claire Rodger | ... | Victor Malarek's Mother |
Brian Dooley | ... | Victor Malarek's Father | |
Bruce Ramsay | ... | Fred Malarek | |
Ross Hull | ... | Young Victor Malarek | |
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Alex Brown | ... | Young Fred Malarek |
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Joe Cazalet | ... | Rack (as Joseph Cazalet) |
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Mark Hellman | ... | Dan |
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Patrick Cardarelli | ... | Evans |
Based on Victor Malarek's best-selling autobiography, this is the extraordinary true story of a streetwise kid who emerges from a violent and unjust background to become a top journalistic reporter. The gunning down of an unarmed juvenile by a trigger happy cop leads the young reporter, Victor Malarek, into an investigation of the local detention center and its record of suspicious deaths. Written by Anonymous
This is the story of Victor Malarek a man who becomes a reporter inspite of his troubled childhood and attempts to expose the problems of a juvenile facility.
If you are a fan of Elias Koteas, you MUST see this film. Koteas gives a tremendous performance in one of the only films where he is the main character. The soundtrack is OK and Michael Sarrazin is also pretty good as "Moorcraft" although he seems tired in the role. The only real flaw in the movie is that Koteas was approximatley 27 years old during during production playing a 23 year old combined with him also playing flashbacks of the characters teen years (you could clearly tell that Koteas is much older) however, his performance by far makes up for this.