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Hurricane Streets is a american film of genre Drama directed by Morgan J. Freeman released in USA on 21 january 1997 with Brendan Sexton III
Hurricane Streets (1997)
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Add to a movie listHurricane Streets (aka Hurricane) is a 1997 American coming-of-age drama which was the debut feature film from writer-director Morgan J. Freeman (not to be confused with actor Morgan Freeman). The film won the Audience, Best Director, and Best Cinematography Awards at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival—the first film ever to win three awards at the festival. The film shows the story of Marcus (Brendan Sexton III), a teenage inner-city 'street kid' whose internal conflicts include running with a gang who want to move up in more serious crimes and a girl he meets (Isidra Vega) who tries to steer him clear from a potential life in prison. What Marcus really wants is to move out of the city to New Mexico and gain space. It was released by MGM and stars Brendan Sexton III and Edie Falco.
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14-year-old Marcus Frederick (Brendan Sexton III) resides in Manhattan’s Lower East Side with his grandmother, Lucy (Lynn Cohen). His mother, Joanna (Edie Falco), has spent the last nine years of Marcus's life in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens into New Mexico. Presumably, Marcus’s father died in a car accident when Marcus was five. Lucy owns and operates her own establishment called Lucy’s, where she works as a bartender, giving Marcus a lot of unsupervised time to spend with his four friends Chip (David Roland Frank), Benny (Carlo Alban), Louis (Mtume Gant), and Harold (Antoine McLean). The group spends the majority of their time committing petty theft and hanging around in their underground clubhouse near the waterfront. Chip has grown tired of the small-time crime and wants to move into more serious theft, such as robbery.Actors
Brendan Sexton III
(Marcus)
Heather Matarazzo
(Ashley)
Carlo Alban
(Benny)
Lynn Cohen
(Lucy)
Edie Falco
(Joanne)
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