That sort of DIY community- outreach angle mixed with coming-of-age urban drama. "Band of the Hand" has no trouble standing on its own it's jammed with plot, the cast is colorful, and the very notion of using society's rejects to clean up the streets somehow fits right in with the time. Reviewed by Mr-Fusion 7 / 10 Fascinating '80s gem The conflict escalates into a bloody gunfight, but what the boys don't know is that Cream is just a henchman for the merciless Miami drug lord Nestor, who also has Carlos' girl Nikki with him.-Tom Zoerner However this offends the former illegal inhabitants of the rundown two story house they settle in, all loyal customers of drug baron Cream. When this is successful, they move back to Miami slums. In an attempt of resocialisation, five hopeless juvenile criminals, J.L., a silent boy with 80s fashion sense who murdered his abusive father, Ruben, a Latino gangbanger, Moss, a African American gangbanger and Ruben's mortal enemy, Dorcey, an illiterate runaway car thief, and Carlos, a Cuban refugee turned slick yuppie drug dealer, are sent away from prison into the Everglades for a survival training under Vietnam war veteran, "Indian Joe" Tegra.
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