In the sweltering underbelly of 1960s Hell’s Kitchen, four unbreakable boys—Lorenzo, Tommy, Michael, Shakes—forge a bond in the crucible of street survival. But one reckless prank lands them in the Kafkaesque nightmare of Wilkinson Home for Boys, where sadistic guards Nokes and crew unleash hellish abuse that scars souls forever. Years later, vengeance rises like a tidal wave.

Barry Levinson’s gut-wrenching masterpiece—adapted from Lorenzo Carcaterra’s raw memoir—pulses with De Niro’s fiery priest, Dustin Hoffman’s sleazy lawyer, and Kevin Bacon’s chilling predator. Young guns Brad Pitt, Jason Patric, and Billy Crudup wield justice with quiet fury, their courtroom showdown a thunderclap of retribution. Shadows cloak the pain, jazz horns wail the grief, every frame dripping with moral ambiguity.

A searing elegy for lost innocence and righteous rage—unflinching, unforgettable. It lingers like a bruise you can’t stop pressing.

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