Light It Up (film)

Light It Up is a 1999 American hostage crime drama film starring an ensemble cast that consists of RampB singeractor 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 starts off in an urban neighborhood in Queens, the events are narrated by Julius Zacharias Ziggy Malone Robert Richard, who introduces his former classmatesfriends at Lincoln High School Lester DeWitt Usher Raymond, who lost his father, hardworking student Stephanie Williams Rosario Dawson, who is aiming high and yearns to leave Lincoln as soon as possible, gangsterthug 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.The film later introduces police officer Dante Jackson Forest Whitaker as he tries to arrest Lester after a misunderstanding, and Ken Knowles Judd Nelson, a kind, warmhearted teacher whose class covers significant 20th century events. When the classrooms windows are broken by rocks, Mr. Knowles takes them to the principals office, where Principal Allen Armstrong Glynn Turman tells Knowles to take them anywhere. ........

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