Hard Choices (1986)
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In this odd mix of social commentary, forbidden romance, police action thriller, and teenage delinquency, a well-meaning social worker slowly careens off the charts when a 15-year-old teen is about to receive a stiff sentence as an accessory to a crime. Bobby (Gary McCleery) is driving the getaway… More In this odd mix of social commentary, forbidden romance, police action thriller, and teenage delinquency, a well-meaning social worker slowly careens off the charts when a 15-year-old teen is about to receive a stiff sentence as an accessory to a crime. Bobby (Gary McCleery) is driving the getaway car when his two brothers run into trouble in a robbery and shoot a policeman to death. The trio of siblings is quickly apprehended, and Bobby is thrown in jail until the judge can decide whether to try him as an adult or not. Not a moment behind it all is Laura (Margaret Klenck), a young woman who runs a non-profit agency dedicated to making sure young teens are not given adult sentences for their criminal behavior. When it looks like Bobby will get a life sentence, Laura cannot accept the inevitable and asks a close friend (and drug-runner) to help her out - and then she walks into the sheriff's office with a gun and gets Bobby out of jail. Her drug-running friend spirits them off to Florida, where Laura and Bobby hide out and begin a romantic entanglement - just another mistake in a long series of mistakes that have placed the two in a dangerous and impossible situation. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
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Cast
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Gary McCleery
as Bobby Lipscomb
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John Seitz
as Sheriff Mavis Johnson
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John Sayles
as Don
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John Snyder
as Ben
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Martin Donovan
as Josh
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Larry Golden
as Carl
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Judson Camp
as Jimmy
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Liane Alexandra Curtis
as Maureen
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J.T. Walsh
as Dep.Anderson
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Spalding Gray
as Terry Norfolk
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John G. Connolly
as Preach
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Tom McCleister
as Blinky
- Blondi
- Nina Hartley
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Margaret Klenck
as Laura Stephens
- Krista Lane
- Ronnie Lee
- Shauna McCullough
- Anthony Romero
- Nigel Shawn Williams
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Patsy Ruth Miller
as Mrs. Lipscomb
- John Nicholson
- Margaret Klenek
