Toy Soldiers (1991)

Dead Poets Society and Die Hard bash heads in this action drama set in a Northeastern prep school. The film opens as a crazed Central American terrorist, Luis Cali (Andrew Divoff), goes on a shooting spree, attempting to gain his drug baron father's release from extradition to the United States. The following sequence introduces some malcontented rich kids from the prep school --Joey Trotta (Wil Wheaton), the son of a New Jersey mob leader; Billy Tepper (Sean Astin), a reprobate who has been to four boarding schools in as many years; Snuffy Bradbury (Keith Coogan), whose rich banker father is the chairman of the ...
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Republican Party; Ricardo Montoya (George Perez), the son of a big-shot lawyer; and Hank Giles (T.E. Russell), whose father is the head of the House Armed Services Committee. The boys disregard their studies and spend their waking hours giving Dean Parker (Louis Gossett Jr.) a hard time. The two storylines collide when Luis, with a group of terrorist goons, make their way across the U.S. border and invade the boarding school, planning to take hostage the son of his father's judge. But the authorities have already removed the boy from danger, so Luis and the terrorists decide to hold the entire student body hostage until their demands are met. Working with the FBI and the special government forces, the rebellious groups of boys have to devise a plan to short-circuit the hostage situation.
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Billy Tepper is de leider van een groep rebellerende jongens op de Regis School. Hij is al van drie dure privé-scholen weggestuurd. Zijn beste vriend, Joey Trotta, is de zoon van het hoofd van de New Yorkse mafia. Billy en de rest van de vrienden hebben allemaal even invloedrijke ouders. Wanneer de vader van Luis Cali in de gevangenis komt te zitten gaat hij naar de Regis School om de zoon van de rechter te kidnappen, die er echter niet meer op school blijkt te zitten. Als hij ontdekt wie de ouders van de rest zijn besluit hij dat dat ook wel voldoende zal zijn voor een gijzeling.

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The Regis School, a specialized prep school for rich boys, is taken hostage by an elite squad of commandos headed by the son of a South American drug czar who is in prison. He vows to kill one student each day until his drug-lord dad is released. The students decide to risk their lives in a deadly campaign to stop him. Sean Astin (LORD OF THE RINGS) stars in this film based on the novel by William P. Kennedy.

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