Big time rock singer Ellen Aim (Diane Lane) is playing her hometown when she is grabbed from the stage by local bike gang The Bombers, led by the menacing Raven (Willem Dafoe). Tom Cody (Michael Paré), a tough ex-soldier and Ellen's ex-boyfriend returns home to get her back and he's ready to take on the whole gang.
Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey and Kevin Spacey portray the principals in a murder trial that brings a small Mississippi town’s racial tensions to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamour and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.
New Grenada is a planned community in the rolling plains west of Denver. It is a soulless oasis of split level homes, coffee mornings and crushing blandness, where the adults strive to attract investment and their neglected kids are left to make their own entertainment. When the youth centre closes at dusk, this means vandalism, drug-taking, theft and general hooliganism, resulting in the accidental shooting of a police officer. When the town's parents gather the next night to discuss the degeneration situation, they soon discover the kids have had all they can take.
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