The Least Among You

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Running time: 97 mins

What may look like weakness may just turn out to be your most important weapon.

With the incredible talents of Academy Award-winning Louis Gossett, Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman), Lauren Holly (Picket Fences), Golden Globe and Emmy nominated William Devane (24) and NAACP Theatre Award-winning Cedric Sanders, Mark Young?s debut The Least Among You deftly transports us back into an era that serves to question our socially progressive guise.

Richard Kelly is a star high school pupil in 1965 Los Angeles, with nothing but a bright future ahead. His best-laid plans are derailed when he is unjustly arrested and his only way out of jail is a bizarre plea bargain that lands him in an all-white seminary, where he becomes the helpless pawn of a corrupt administrator. With a kindly black janitor as his sole ally, Kelly must battle overt and thinly veiled racism without self-destructing into fits of smoldering rage.

Season:
2009
Director:
Mark Young
Cinematography:
Zoran Popovic
Cast:
Louis Gossett, Jr., Lauren Holly, William Devane, Cedric Sanders, Siena Goines, Cory Hardrict
Editor:
Omar Daher
Producer:
Mark Young, Julia Verdin
Executive Producer:
Brian Swette, Matthew Malouf
Language:
English
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Mark Kilian