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.

• EMI Films
• Solofilm
• Sean Penn
• Reni Santoni
• Jim Moody
• Eric Gurry
• Esai Morales
• Ally Sheedy
• Clancy Brown
• Robert Lee Rush