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    Shackles

    Poster of the movie Shackles
    2005     Drama    
    USA
    1h 55min

    Ben (D.L. Hughley) is a disillusioned teacher struggling to get his career back on track and escape his own damaged past. Tapped to salvage an inmate teaching program at a state prison, Ben's unorthodox methods win over a hardcore crew of unlikely students. Wielding freestyle rap lyrics like weapons, Ben inspires drop-outs and lifers alike to clean up their act and transform their lives, even talented but troubled teen drug dealer Gabriel (Jose Pablo Cantillo), whose raw skills just might be his ticket out of the ghetto after he enters a poetry-slam competition outside the prison walls. But after a deadly jail riot erupts, Ben must fight to survive this private hell.

    Directed byCharles Winkler
    Written byDonald Martin

    Starring

    D.L. Hughley
    Jose Pablo Cantillo
    Barry Shabaka Henley
    Page Kennedy
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