“A well-constructed, taut thriller”

- James Berardinelli

“[The film] wants to be Dog Day Afternoon meets The Breakfast Club and would have been excruciating even if it had succeeded”

- Owen Gleiberman

Light It Up

Students hold a wounded police officer hostage and demand improvements to their run-down inner-city school. Usher Raymond, Forest Whitaker, Marcello Robinson, Rosario Dawson, Robert Ri'chard, Judd Nelson, Fredro Starr, Sara Gilbert, Clifton Collins Jr., Vanessa L. Williams. Director: Craig Bolotin (1999, R)