Light It Up is a 1999 drama film starring Usher Raymond, Rosario Dawson, Forest Whitaker, and Vanessa L. Williams. The film was written and directed by Craig Bolotin, and produced by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and his wife Tracy Edmonds. The film was released on November 10, 1999 and was rated R by the MPAA for "language and violent content."
The film starts off in an inner city-neighborhood in Queens, New York, the events are narrated by Zachari...
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Light It Up is a 1999 drama film starring Usher Raymond, Rosario Dawson, Forest Whitaker, and Vanessa L. Williams. The film was written and directed by Craig Bolotin, and produced by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and his wife Tracy Edmonds. The film was released on November 10, 1999 and was rated R by the MPAA for "language and violent content."
The film starts off in an inner city-neighborhood in Queens, New York, the events are narrated by Zacharias 'Ziggy' Malone (Robert Ri'chard), who introduces his former classmates/friends at Lincoln High School: Lester DeWitt (Usher), who lost his father; and hard-working Latin/African-American student Stephanie Williams (Rosario Dawson), who is ignoring Lester due to the fact that she does not want to go steady with him. Other characters include gangster/thug Rodney (Fredro Starr) who gets into fights with other students; rebellious classmate Lynn (Sara Gilbert) who is already a couple of months pregnant; and Rivers (Clifton Collins Jr.), a close...
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