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Light It Up is a american film of genre Drama directed by Craig Bolotin released in USA on 4 november 1999 with Usher
Light It Up (1999)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 4 november 1999
Directed by Craig Bolotin
OriginUSA
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Gangster films, Films about school violence
Rating60%
Light It Up is a 1999 American hostage crime drama film starring an ensemble cast that consists of R&B singer/actor Usher Raymond (in his first leading role), Rosario Dawson, Forest Whitaker, and Vanessa L. Williams. The film was written and directed by Craig Bolotin, and produced by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and his wife Tracy Edmonds.
The film follows six teenage high school seniors who hold a wounded police officer hostage and barricade themselves inside the school.
Synopsis
The film starts off in an urban neighborhood in Queens, the events are narrated by Julius Zacharias 'Ziggy' Malone (Robert Ri'chard), who introduces his former classmates/friends at Lincoln High School: Lester DeWitt (Usher Raymond), who lost his father, hard-working student Stephanie Williams (Rosario Dawson), who is aiming high and yearns to leave Lincoln as soon as possible, gangster/thug Rodney J. Templeton (Fredro Starr) who gets into fights with other students; rebellious classmate Lynn Sabatini (Sara Gilbert) who is already a couple of months pregnant; and Robert Tremont a.k.a. "Rivers" (Clifton Collins, Jr.), a close friend of both Lester and Ziggy.Actors
Usher
(Lester Dewitt)
Forest Whitaker
(Officer Dante Jackson)
Judd Nelson
(Ken Knowles)
Rosario Dawson
(Stephanie Williams)
Robert Ri'chard
(Zacharias 'Ziggy' Malone)
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