1998
Thicker Than Blood
6.5/10
Griffin Byrne is the idealistic new history, English and maths teacher in Father Frank Larkin's school in a mainly Latino ghetto neighborhood where most kids, even many of its graduates, end up in cri...
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Thicker Than Blood
Genre: Drama, Film TV
Griffin Byrne is the idealistic new history, English and maths teacher in Father Frank Larkin's school in a mainly Latino ghetto neighborhood where most kids, even many of its graduates, end up in crime and poverty. He takes a particular interest in one of the boys nobody believes will ever come to anything, Lee Cortes, who he finds to be a prodigy in cartoon drawing but who never spoke a word at school, and always wears a Walkman, essentially because of his home situation: his elder brother Tyro, a drug dealer, abuses him and his mother, so he often stays home to mind the smallest siblings. Griffin tries everything to help Lee, despite everyones cynicism, even takes him in his bachelor flat, but finds the whole family situation must be solved, which is probably beyond his power, yet tries tireless, even if he gets nothing but abuse and the results seem to do more hurting then helping...
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Richard Pearce
Director
Bill Cain
Writers
Cast
Mickey Rourke
As Father Frank Larkin
Dan Futterman
As Griffin Byrne
Carlo Alban
As Lee Cortez
Luna Lauren Velez
As Camilla Lopez
Josh Mostel
As Kendall
Peter Maloney
As James
Vincent Laresca
As Tyro
Rosanna DeSoto
As Señora
Dick Latessa
As Ciccilone
Grace Garland
As Hooker