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Stephen Lang, Michael Carmine, Lauren Holly, John Cameron Mitchell, Daniele Quinn ... see more see more... , James Remar , Leon , Al Shannon , Danton Stone , Paul Calderon , Laurence Fishburne , Tony Bolano , Julian Byrd , Dan Fitzgerald , Frank Gilbert , Gerrit Graham , Michael Gregory , Erla Julmiste , Deborah King , Joe Petrullo , Bill Smitrovich , Christopher Berry , D. Blakely , Matt Buther , Carl Cofield , Colman , Antoni Corone , Roy Datz , T.R. Durphy , Eddie Edenfield , James Eros , Peter Fournier , Allyson Garret , Sandy Mielke , Joan Murphy , Nelson Orames , Jimi Ruccolo , Luis Valderrama , Jim Zubiena , Pat McCorkle

Former Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser warmed the director's chair for Band of the Hand. The film zeroes in on five juvenile delinquents who are plucked from their various detention facilit... read more read more...ies and unceremoniously dumped in the wilds of the Everglades. The boys begin to panic until hardcase Vietnam veteran Stephen Lang arrives. Lang explains that they've been paroled in his custody, and that it is his task to teach them how to work as a team in order to survive. The logic of this plan is to whip the boys into an elite vigilante unit, then sic them on the various drug dealers of America. The film features early performances by Lauren Holly and Larry Fishburne and Bob Dylan can be heard singing the title song. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 49 min.

Directed by: Paul Michael Glaser

Release Date: April 11, 1986

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DVD Release Date: January 28, 2003

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  • Beefy
    September 24, 2006
    Beefy
    The film that made me forever think of James Remar as a bad guy. Miami Vice era cheese.
  • wolverineland
    July 4, 2010
    wolverineland
    It's Mod Squad meets Miami Vice and was a regular staple in my mid teens back in the mid 80's when HBO took a great movie like let's say Band of the Hand and showed it a couple of thousand times a year and as a 16 year old you never got tired of watching it. I still don't get tir... read moreed seeing this rag tag bunch of j.d.'s get rehabilitated in a Florida swamp and open up a can of whoop a$$, I mean gopher gas on kingpin Remar and his cocaine cartel. Watch it once and you will watch it again.
  • Renaissanceldy07
    December 8, 2006
    Renaissanceldy07
    This was Lauren Holly's first movie...I went to see it on it's opening night in Geneva, NY at the Geneva Cinema Theatre, where Lauren Holly and then boyfriend, Daniell Quinn, son of the late actor, Anthony Quinn, made an appearance as people were going in to the theatre....

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Dave Kehr
January 1, 2000
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

It plays like a TV pilot filled out with a few cusswords and strokes of excess violence. Full Review

Michael E. Grost
May 28, 2005
Michael E. Grost, Classic Film and Television

Dullsville

Scott Weinberg
September 26, 2003
Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

If you somehow remember this one with some fondness, do yourself a favor and never see it again. Full Review

Gil Jawetz
February 5, 2003
Gil Jawetz, DVDTalk.com

It's the closest any film of the era comes to predicting the mission-based Miami world of the recent video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Full Review

Walter Goodman
May 21, 2003
Walter Goodman, New York Times

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Emanuel Levy
August 12, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Philip Martin
February 7, 2005
Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Daniel M. Kimmel
March 19, 2004
Daniel M. Kimmel, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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January 26, 2006
Time Out

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