The read
Audiences rate it 19 points higher than critics do. Scores higher than 79% of the 427 1980s crime movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Metacritic53/100
Audiences rate it 19 points higher than critics do.
318 audience votes
Key crew
- Bill ContiOriginal Music Composer
- Rick RosenthalDirector
- Richard Di LelloWriter
Cast
- Sean PennMick O'Brien
- Reni SantoniRamon Herrera
- Jim MoodyGene Daniels
- Eric GurryHorowitz
- Esai MoralesPaco Moreno
- Ally SheedyJ. C. Walenski
- Clancy BrownViking Lofgren
- Robert Lee RushTweety
- John ZendaWagner
- Tony Mockus Jr.Warden Bendix
- Alan RuckCarl Brennan
- Erik BarefieldTerrell
Stills
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