- Band of the Hand
Infobox Film
name = Band of the Hand
caption = Theatrical release poster
director =Paul Michael Glaser
producer =Michael Rauch Don Kurt (associate)
Michael Mann (executive)
writer =Jack Baran Leo Garen
music =Michel Rubini
cinematography=Reynaldo Villalobos
editing =Jack Hofstra Stephen E. Rivkin
ex-prod = Michael Mann
starring =Lauren Holly
LeonLaurence Fishburne
Stephen LangMichael Carmine John Cameron Mitchell
runtime = 109 min
country = USA
language = English
color = Colour (Metrocolor )
sound = Dolby
company = Delphi V Productions
Michael Mann Productions
distributor =TriStar Pictures
released =April 11 ,1986
budget = $8.7 million
gross = $4.9 million (USA)
imdb_id = 0090693"Band of the Hand" is a 1986 crime
film , released byTriStar Pictures . It was directed byPaul Michael Glaser and starsStephen Lang ,Lauren Holly ,Laurence Fishburne and Leon. Michael Mann served as itsexecutive producer . The film turned into a theatrical release after it failed as atelevision pilot [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt090693/trivia] . The title track, "Band of the Hand", is written byBob Dylan , and while it appeared on the soundtrack album and as a single, it has never been released on one of his own albums.The plot involves a group of juvenile delinquents in their teens who are doomed to be prosecuted as adults for their crimes - unless they take part in a new and experimental "program" led by a
Vietnam veteran Native American from theEverglades . The teens must learn to survive in the dangerous swamp and how to work together. Upon completion of the program, the group buys a vacant house in a dangerous part ofMiami and slowly rebuilds the neighborhood, kicking out the pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers. The film's climax has the group taking the fight directly to a drug manufacturing facility that is equipped with a M-134 Minigun.References
External links
* [http://www.manhunter.net/soundtrack/the-reds_bruce-cohen_rick-shaffer.html Information about the Philadelphia band - THE REDS - who contributed to the soundtrack]
*imdb title|id=090693|title=Band of the Hand
*rotten-tomatoes|id=band_of_the_hand|title=Band of the Hand
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.