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Racing for Time is a american film of genre Drama directed by Charles Dutton released in USA on 16 february 2008 with Yaya DaCosta
Racing for Time (2008)
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Add to a movie listRacing for Time is a 2008 Lifetime Original Movie, starring Charles S. Dutton, and Elizabeth Peña. The movie is based on the accomplishment of real life coach and prison guard Sergeant Noel Chestnut (later promoted to lieutenant) and the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility's track team he started. The real story took place in California in the 1990s when California's Youth Authority's correction's officer Noel Chesnut started a track team for female inmates throughout the Camarillo area facilities where many of the female offenders had been convicted of murder and robbery. Noel sacrificed a lot to encourage these girls and several of them went on to lead successful lives due to his program.
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Cleveland "Stack" Stackhouse (Charles S. Dutton) is a guard with the Texas Correctional Youth Authority who witnesses the cycle of destructive choices and racial tensions among female teen offenders and decides to do something about it. He gathers African-American, Latina and Caucasian teens, and organizes a multi-racial track team behind the bars of the prison. Participation in Stack's track team not only breaks down the racial divides between the girls, but puts them on a path to turn their lives around.Actors
Yaya DaCosta
(Vanessa)
Elizabeth Peña
(Flores)
Zulay Henao
(Carmen)
Saige Thompson
(Cheryl)
Tiffany Haddish
(Denise)
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