Light it Up

Set in an American inner-city high school, the action revolves around a groups of students who find themselves unwilling hostage takers. Their hostage is a cop, and soon, the school is surrounded and they face a tense stand-off situation. Each of the kids has his own reasons for being there, and the SWAT teams move in as the police negotiator fails to deliver on their ulimately reasonable demands...

99 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Violence) .
Drama

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

This thing ain't gonna have a good ending...

Credits

Cast	Usher Raymond, Forest Whitaker, Rosario Dawson, Robert Ri'chard, Judd Nelson, Fredo Starr, Sara Gilbert
Director	Craig Bolotin
Screenplay	Craig Bolotin
Music	Harry Gregson-Williams
Cinematography	Elliot Davis
Sound formats	Dolby
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	1999
Produced by	Edmonds Entertainment, Fox 2000 Pictures

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Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Movies for Africa Ian Douglas	11
Cape Argus Owen Williams	5
Cape Argus Adrian Monteath	10
The Star Craig Canavan	14
Die Burger Marianne Malan	10
eye Weekly Gemma Files	10
Box Office Dwayne E. Leslie	8
Rough Cut Matt Kelsey	6
What the People say
Internet 172 Netizens	12
Average .. 48%	10

Visitor Comments

Ian Douglas: The American critics were not particularly impressed with this, I thought it was at least average, perhaps just a trifle over, as a modern teen drama. In some ways it is a ''Breakfast Club'' for the new millenium. The kids find themselves in a situation they have no idea how to handle, and just want to go home quietly, but the wall of police outside force them into trying to behave as TV has educated them how baddies behave.

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Light it Up

Credits

Ratings

What the Critics say

What the People say

Average .. 48%

Visitor Comments