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The Glass Shield (1994)
Directed by Charles Burnett
“In a world filled with violence... his only weapon is the truth!”
Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime · 1h 50m
J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, whom he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into grave personal danger in the service of justice.
Cast
Michael Boatman
Dep. J.J. Johnson
Lori Petty
Dep. Deborah Fields
Ice Cube
Theodore 'Teddy' Woods
Erich Anderson
D.A. Ira Kern
Bernie Casey
James Locket
Richard Anderson
Watch Cmmdr. Clarence Massey
Elliott Gould
Greenspan
Victoria Dillard
Barbara Simms
Michael Ironside
Det. Gene Baker
Natalija Nogulich
Judge Helen Lewis
Wanda De Jesus
Carmen Munoz
Michael Gregory
Dep. Roy Bush
Crew
- Director
- Charles Burnett
- Screenplay
- John Eddie Johnson, Ned Welsh
- Writer
- Charles Burnett
- Director of Photography
- Elliot Davis
- Original Music Composer
- Stephen James Taylor
- Editor
- Curtiss Clayton
- Producer
- Thomas S. Byrnes, Carolyn Schroeder
Details
- Release date
- 1994-09-16
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America, France
- Production
- CiBy 2000, Byrnes Schroeder Walker Productions, Miramax
- Budget
- $5,000,000
- Box office
- $3,291,163