The Glass Shield
The Glass Shield

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J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white-male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, who he helped to ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Glass Shield:

Michael Boatman
Lori Petty
Ice Cube
Erich Anderson
Bernie Casey
Richard Anderson

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J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white-male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, who he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into great personal danger in the service of justice.

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 9/10 by Dennis SchwartzAn angry anti-cop message flick directed and written to be subversive by angry LA based indie filmmaker Charles Burnett.
Slant Magazine - 8/10 by Eric HendersonBurnett uses a socially discomforting scenario that has only vague implications of deeper malice to initiate a brave portrayal of a Caucasian-centric sort of martial law.
Entertainment Weekly - 8/10 by Owen GleibermanAmbition is something to respect in an artist, but Charles Burnett's police-corruption drama The Glass Shield is such a maladroit piece of filmmaking that its weighty themes and sclerotic tangle of a plot end up making it a trial to sit through.
Variety - 7/10 by Todd McCarthyA powerful moral drama that tries to deal with the racism at the root of many problems in contempo American society.
San Francisco Examiner - 6/10 by Barbara ShulgasserBoatman has the open-faced earnestness of someone who believes in his own goodness. As he begins to register the burden of unpleasant knowledge, we see J.J. grow up in front of our eyes.
Washington Post - 6/10 by Hal HinsonIt has both ideas and a point of view. But the ideas are far from new, and the point of view is blatantly knee-jerk.
ReelViews - 6/10 by James BerardinelliBurnett's screenplay has a tendency to be a little too preachy, especially during the unsatisfying final scene. There's a fine line between getting the message across through subtlety and becoming didactic...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - 6/10 by Philip Martinan entirely honorable - if inevitably doomed - attempt to reconcile Burnett's political and social concerns with the requisites of mass entertainment.
USA Today - 5/10 by Mike ClarkThough no masterpiece, the film is an interesting sidebar for moviegoers who try to keep up; it's like a '50s film noir oddity you catch on 3 a.m. TV, only to find that it's become a more scintillating view than Ben-Hur.
Groucho Reviews - 5/10 by Peter CanaveseThe film's ambition makes Burnett's occasional overstatement easy to forgive.

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