When the joke goes terribly wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are beaten. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with the former guard allows them to seek revenge.
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Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt | As a child, Lorenzo Carcaterra – Shake to Friends – Michael Sullivan, Tommy Marcano and John Reilly were inseparable. They grew up in Hell’s kitchen, far from perfect surroundings, environments that, as Shakes put it, are full of deception, but the inhabitants know and understand the rules easily. The only adult they admire is Pastor Bobby Carelli, who understands them more as children than most adults and more than he would like to admit. In 1967, their lives were about to change forever when a typical teen joke went wrong, leading the four to be punished under different terms as reformers of the Wilkinson Home for Boys. There, they are physically, mentally, and sexually abused by Sean Nokes, the predator guard in his cell area, and other guards, Ralph Ferguson, Henry Addison, and Adam Styler, despite other worthy authorities in the house, including several other guards. Their presence at home affects four, …