In this powerful drama based on the award-winning novel by Robert Cormier, the new kid at a strict Catholic high school is Jerry Renault (Ilan Mitchell-Smith). An iconoclast who refuses to participate in the school's chocolate-selling fundraiser, Jerry inspires the wrath of sadistic headmaster Brother Leon (John Glover) and a secret society called "The Vigils," headed up by the vicious Archie Costello (Wallace Langham). Doug Hutchison, Bud Cort and Adam Baldwin costar in the directorial debut of actor Keith Gordon.
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