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.
12 August 1947, USA
18 March 1963, Tarrytown, New York, USA
1 September 1979, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 December 1967, Chicago, Illinois, USA
8 April 1978, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 June 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 September 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Philippines
3 September 1952
1 January 1944, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
1968, Michigan, USA
2 January 1979, Chicago, Illinois, USA
11 September 1981, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 February 1976, Chicago Heights, Illinois, USA
7 January 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 January 1975, Santa Monica, California, USA
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.
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
A laughably disconnected hostage drama.
February 18, 2005
...isn't so much a bad movie as an unfinished movie
January 01, 2000
Bolotin repeatedly reminds the viewer of his lack of imagination.
April 17, 2005
Snuff it out!
January 01, 2000
Nelson, Whitaker and their talented, young co-stars give this film most of whatever juice it has.
January 01, 2000
Painfully obvious and cliched.
September 19, 2002
"The Breakfast Club" in the Ghetto
January 01, 2000
Writer-director Craig Bolotin wants to get our motors racing, our minds pondering and our hearts pumping. Laudable goals; shaky results.
January 01, 2000
Crackling dialogue, surprising intelligence and an emotional wallop.
January 01, 2000
The dialogue is ridiculous and condescending.
