Brotherhood of Justice | |
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Genre | Action Drama Thriller |
Teleplay by | Noah Jubelirer Jeffrey Bloom |
Story by | Noah Jubelirer |
Directed by | Charles Braverman |
Starring | Keanu Reeves Kiefer Sutherland Lori Loughlin Joe Spano Darren Dalton Evan Mirand Don Michael Paul |
Theme music composer | Brad Fiedel |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | Peter Guber Jon Peters |
Producers | Judith R. James Margot Winchester |
Production locations | Santa Cruz, California Aptos, California Watsonville, California |
Cinematography | Hanania Baer |
Editors | Bert Glatstein Ann E. Mills |
Running time | 93 min. |
Production companies | The Guber-Peters Company Margot Winchester Productions Phoenix Entertainment Group Taper Media Enterprises |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | May 18, 1986 |
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Film critic & historian Leonard Maltin disliked the picture, describing it as "... Head of the Class meets The Mod Squad ." [2]
The movie is based on actual events that occurred at Paschal High School in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, in 1984. [3] The vigilante group called themselves "The Legion of Doom". [4] The movie was filmed in Santa Cruz County in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. Some locations used were Aptos High School in Aptos, California, Downtown Watsonville, California, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, and various beaches in the area around Santa Cruz.
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