Thicker Than Blood
Plot: Griffin Byrne is the idealistic new history, English and maths teacher in Father Frank Larkin's school in a mainly Latino ghetto neighborhood where most kids, even many of its graduates, end up in crime and poverty. He takes a particular interest in one of the boys nobody believes will ever come to anything, Lee Cortes, who he finds to be a prodigy in cartoon drawing but who never spoke a word at school, and always wears a Walkman, essentially because of his home situation: his elder brother Tyro, a drug dealer, abuses him and his mother, so he often stays home to mind the smallest siblings

Mickey Rourke
Dan Futterman
Carlo Alban
Luna Lauren Velez
Josh Mostel
Peter Maloney
Vincent Laresca
Rosanna DeSoto
Dick Latessa
Grace Garland
Eric van Alstyne
Richard Pearce