The film American History X is rated by the users of IMDB.com (Internet Movie DataBase) as one of the 50 best films ever made. It is a crime/drama, a very violent film; not for the faint-hearted. American History X was released in 1998, and it is directed by Tony Kaye.
Casting:
-Edward Norton (Derek Vinyard)
-Edward Furlong (Daniel Vinyard)
-Avery Brooks (Dr. Bob Sweeney)
-Stacy Keach (Cameron Alexander)
-Beverly D'Angelo (Doris Vinyard)
-Jennifer Lien (Davina Vinyard)
Summary
The setting is in Venice Beach, USA, and tells the story about Derek Vinyard, taking place in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Derek Vinyard is a very bright and charismatic student, who is drawn in to the neo-Nazi gangs when his father gets killed at work (a fire-fighter) by a black drug-dealer. Derek believes that blacks are the reason of every problem in the USA; Crime, poverty, etc., and when his father is killed by a black drug-dealer, a “social parasite” in......
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