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Movie
Squeeze
Synopsis
A real-life inner city Boston youth shelter yielded the plot, characters, actors, and director of this urban drama about three ghetto youths trying to make something better of their lives while surviving on the streets. Tyson (Tyrone Burton), Hector (Eddie Cutanda), and Bao (Phuong Duong) are a trio of 14-year-old friends attempting to figure out which direction they'll go in life. As they work at a legitimate job sweeping up at a gas station and attending a youth center with the facility's adult leader J.J. (Geoffrey Rhue), they also run drugs for the local gangsters that mock and taunt their efforts at self-improvement. When one of the boys' mother kills herself, the ensuing crisis leads the three friends to choose different paths. Director Robert Patton-Spruill, a drama teacher at Boston's Dorchester Youth Collaborative, cast the three star pupils from his workshop in Squeeze (1996) and based the film on their real-life stories, bringing a palpable sense of realism to the proceedings.
Cast
- Tyrone Burton
- Eddie Cutanda
- Phuong Duong
- Geoffrey Rhue
- Russell G. Jones
- Leigh Williams
- Beresford Bennett
- Jennifer Maxcy
- Diane Beckett
- Ingrid Askew
- James Spruill
- Milagros Jones
- Bruce Serafin
- Robert Agredo
- Harlem Logan
- William Butler
- Daryl Bugg
- Maleah Liggins
- Pinky Lugo
- Catherine Oberg
- Patrick Ruth
- Sean Henderson
- Johnny Henderson
- Lynda Patton
- Georgette Leslie
- Gerry Nuzollo
- Jessica Edwards
- Victor Núñez
- Alfredo Rivera
- John Bonaparte
- Juanita Rodriguez
- Monique Douglas
- Sparkle Henderson
- Nicole Kelly
- Melissa Khomblassen
- Aaron Stewart
- Roy J. Lynch
- Max Cutler
- H. Forrest Logan
- Laura Bernieri
- Mitchell B. Robbins
- Robert Fitz
- Maximillian Cutler
- Sheila Gentile
- Richard Moos
- Norman McLean
- Brian Ricci
- Robert Patton-Spruill
- Ben Dulong
- Emmett Folgert