Light It Up
After a shooting incident in a neglected inner-city school leaves a police officer wounded, six teenage high school seniors holds the cop hostage, in a desperate effort to improve the run-down conditions of their high-school.
24 August 1964
31 January 1947, New York City, New York, USA
3 September 1952
23 September 1962, Illinois, USA
15 July 1961, Longview, Texas, USA
8 April 1978, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 January 1975, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1968, Michigan, USA
18 April 1971, Queens, New York, USA
12 August 1947, USA
28 December 1967, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 January 1979, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 October 1970
November 3, 1973 in Blue Island, Illinois, USA
29 January 1975, Santa Monica, California, USA
September 19, 2002
"The Breakfast Club" in the Ghetto
January 01, 2000
Painfully obvious and cliched.
January 01, 2000
Crackling dialogue, surprising intelligence and an emotional wallop.
January 01, 2000
Too often writer/directors such as Light It Up's Craig Bolotin don't take the time to create a plausible plot and realistic dialog.
April 17, 2005
Snuff it out!
January 01, 2000
The dialogue is ridiculous and condescending.
January 01, 2000
Writer-director Craig Bolotin wants to get our motors racing, our minds pondering and our hearts pumping. Laudable goals; shaky results.
February 18, 2005
...isn't so much a bad movie as an unfinished movie
January 01, 2000
A laughably disconnected hostage drama.
January 01, 2000
Nelson, Whitaker and their talented, young co-stars give this film most of whatever juice it has.
January 01, 2000
It begins as a high school comedy romp and then abruptly turns into a TV cop show-caliber thriller.
January 01, 2000
Bolotin repeatedly reminds the viewer of his lack of imagination.
