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Mel Gibson | Nick Stahl | Margaret Whitton | Fay Masterson | Gaby Hoffmann | Geoffrey Lewis | Richard Masur | Michael DeLuise | Ethan Phillips |

Jean De Baer | Jack De Mave | Viva | Justin Kanew | Sean Kellman | Chris Lineburg Directors: Mel Gibson | 

The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town.

His face is disfigured from an automobile accident and fire ten years before in which a boy was incinerated and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

He is also suspected of being a pedophile. He is befriended by Chuck ,  causing the town s suspicion and hostility to be ignited. McLeod inculcates in his protege

a love of justice and freedom from prejudice which sustains him beyond the end of the film.