John Leguizamo .... Singer
Wesley Snipes .... Fletcher
Oliver Platt .... Toad
Natasha Lyonne .... Jenna

Year .... 2002

Zig Zag (Sam Jones III) is a fifteen years old autistic teenager, living with his abusive father Fletcher (Wesley Snipes), who frequently beats him. Fletcher charges him for a rent of US$ 200,00, otherwise he would be thrown out of his home. Although working washing dishes in a restaurant, whose owner Toad (Oliver Platt) humiliates him very often, Zig Zag does not have the money and becomes worried with the situation. Zig Zag sees Toad opening his safe, memorizes the combination and in the night he steals almost ten thousand dollars. When he comes back home, Fletcher takes all the money from him and uses it to repay a loan to the dangerous Cadillac Tom (Luke Goss). Singer (John Leguizamo) is the best friend of Zig Zag and when knows what he did, he decides to return the money to Toad's safe, otherwise Zig Zag would be sent to a reformatory.

This movie has been out for a while now so I finally decided to give it a go and suprisingly it turned out to be quite good. Excellent acting and an ok storyline and it beats pretty much anything on Australian tv these days so if you're after a drama that isn't A grade, then I recommend checking this one out.

Better than: The last 3 Star Wars films
Worse than: The last 3 Mandy Moore films

8-)