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Light It Up

When a student in a battered inner-city high school accentually wounds a cop, a desperate group of students hold the officer hostage in order to get changes made in their school. However, the situation becomes a highly charged crisis.

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Nearly 150 profanities, obscenities, and crudities; marijuana use; smoking by several characters; violence, including shootings and beatings; and lots of attitude; implied parental abuse.

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Drama

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Actors

Forest Whitaker, Judd Nelson, Rosario Dawson, Usher Raymond, Vanessa L. Williams

Writers

Craig Bolotin

Directors

Craig Bolotin

Producers

Tracy E. Edmonds

Studios

20th Century Fox

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Violence

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Other

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