The glass shield / a Miramax Films release ; Ciby 2000 presents a Ciby 2000 and Byrnes Schroeder Walker production of a Charles Burnett film ; producers, Thomas Byrnes, Carolyn Schroeder ; written and directed by Charles Burnett.
Edition:
Collector's edition.
Publisher:
Miramax Home Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Richard Anderson, Michael Boatman, Lori Petty, Ice Cube, Bernie Casey, Elliott Gould, Don Harvey. Originally released as a motion picture in 1994. Special features: feature commentary with writer/director Charles Burnett and composer Stephen James Taylor; a conversation with Charles Burnett; film scoring with Stephen James Taylor; theatrical trailer. Title from container.
Summary:
"J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white-male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, who he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into grave personal danger in the service of justice." -- http://www.imdb.com
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