Strike One

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You can watch Strike One (2014) on Hoopla with a participating library card.

Juan Garcia is a boy on the threshold of manhood living in a gang-controlled neighborhood. His role models could not be further apart: his older sister Angie, a single mom, struggling to gain a foothold in the white corporate world and his uncle Manny, an ex-gang member, who has fallen into an acting career playing gang bangers since his release from prison. With the future on his doorstep, Juan, like most boys, can only think of girls and is unaware of the judicial system's hard line stance against gang affiliation.

Juan Garcia navigates a narrow path between his sister's corporate grind and his uncle's faded gangland persona. This low-budget urban drama captures the messy tug-of-war between escaping the streets and honoring family roots.

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