Mod Squad for the Eighties, except that there are now five of them (like the fingers of a hand, see). The executive producer, Michael Mann, is the executive producer of Miami Vice; and the director, Paul Michael Glaser, used to be one or the other of the title characters on Starsky and Hutch -- so it's small wonder there's a TV-ishness about the movie. Stephen Lang, as the Father Flanagan of an Everglades survival camp where the five recalcitrant youths are whipped into shape, is quite appealing: an unsmiling and gleaming-eyed Indian, dressed all in black (including headband), with the stance of a black-belter and an air of true spirituality (or else psychopathy). But he eventually gets himself killed (aw-w-w-w-w), and the kids have to avenge him (yay-y-y-y-y). With Michael Carmine, Lauren Holly, and John Cameron Mitchell. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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