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Synopsis: When a 15-year-old boy is reluctantly involved in a robbery and struggles to survive in a hostile Tennessee legal system, a young female social worker seeks better treatment for him and soon becomes interested in more than his rehabilitation.

Starring: Margaret Klenck, Gary McCleery

Supporting actors: John Seitz, John Sayles, J.T. Walsh, John Snyder, Martin Donovan, Spalding Gray, John P. Connolly, Willey Reynolds, Ruth Miller, Richard Allen, Geraldine Bartlett, Judson Camp, Charles Chalmers, Tony Farentino, Ilona Garcen, Larry Golden, Bill Herndon, John Pynchon Holmes, Tom McCleister, Don Plumley

Directed by: Rick King

Genre: Crime, Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes

Release year: 1986

Studio: Lorimar

ASIN: B000MPRA2E (Rental) and B000MPNYEC (Purchase)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #68,266 in Amazon Video On Demand (See Bestsellers in Amazon Video On Demand)

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Format: Amazon Video on Demand (streaming online video and digital download)

Theatrical Release Information

US Theatrical Release Date: May 16, 1986
Production Company: Breakout, Screenland

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4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting sleeper, particularly for the acting., February 20, 1999

By	Miles D. Moore (Alexandria, VA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

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This very small, low-budget crime drama, made on a shoestring in 1984 and (barely) released two years later, came out before the upsurge of independent cinema in the U.S. It's far from perfect: the low budget shows in some of the roughness in the editing and photography; the plot tends to meander, particularly in the middle section; some of the events and dialogue have a slight nonsequitur quality; the subsequent career of the director, Rick King, has been undistinguished. Yet the cumulative power of "Hard Choices" is impressive, largely because it is superbly acted down to the smallest bit part. Some of the supporting actors in this film--John Sayles, Spalding Gray, Martin Donovan, the late J.T. Walsh--went on to bigger and better things, deservedly so. It is a disappointment bordering on tragedy, however, that the leads in this film vanished into obscurity--doe-eyed Margaret Klenck, an offbeat and sexy actress more European than American in style, and rawboned, likable Gary McCleery, who splits the difference between Matthew Broderick and Richard Thomas. Had this movie been made today, in the heyday of indie films, these two would have become household names on the basis of their performances here.

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