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DOWN FOR
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| Movie Trailer & Pictures DOWN FOR LIFE
Starring: Jessica Romero, Danny Glover, Kate del Castillo, Emily Rios, Laz Alonso, Snoop Dogg, Elizabeth Peña, and directed by Alan Jacobs.
Director: Alan Jacobs
Executive Producers: Laz Alonso, Dwight William
Producers: Scott William Alvarez, Frank Aragon
Erika Armin
Down For Life is part of the Contemporary World Cinema lineup at the 2009 Toronto International
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Down For
Life
Synopsis:
Fifteen-year-old
gang leader
Rascal
(Jessica
Romero)
wakes up in
her home in
South
Central Los
Angeles with
no hint that
this will be
a pivotal
day in her
life.
Lovingly
hectored by
her devoted
mother,
Esther (Kate
del Castillo
of Under the
Same Moon),
about the
right
clothes for
school,
Rascal sets
off to wait
for her
coterie of
fellow
Latina
friends on
the corner.
As the
members of
her group
arrive, they
clash with a
rival gang
of African
American
girls, and
this
volatile and
violence-ridden
encounter
sets off a
series of
events that
soon has
Rascal on
the run for
her life.
Rascal has
an ally,
however, in
one of her
teachers,
Mr. Shannon
(Danny
Glover), who
believes she
has a talent
for writing.
He is trying
to convince
a skeptical
principal
(Elizabeth
Peña) and
his personal
friend Mr.
Hightower
(Snoop Dogg)
– as well as
Rascal
herself –
that she
deserves a
potentially
life-altering
opportunity
to attend a
writers'
workshop.
Rascal
instinctively
knows that
the choices
she faces on
this day may
mean the
difference
between life
and death,
but it isn't
until
tragedy
strikes a
close friend
that she
realizes
leaving the
gang could
be just as
dangerous as
staying in
it. |
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