American History X

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

Cast

Edward Norton

as Derek

Edward Furlong

as Danny

Beverly D'Angelo

as Doris

Jennifer Lien

as Davina

Ethan Suplee

as Seth

Fairuza Balk

as Stacey

Avery Brooks

as Sweeney

Elliott Gould

as Murray

Stacy Keach

as Cameron

William Russ

as Dennis

Reviews

tmdb15435519

Despite having a somewhat weak cast, this is an incredibly poignant drama of one man's struggle to live a new life. Probably too violent and close-to-home for some....

Andre Gonzales

There's really no point to the movie. Just a lot of violence. That's pretty much it....

GenerationofSwine

You could use this as a skinhead recruitment film because it failed so miserably in the message it was trying to push, and it failed miserably because they were too concerned about pushing the message that they forgot how they were framing the film. So a bunch of skinheads win a turf war basketba...

GenerationofSwine

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