The Toy Soldiers
The purity of youth and family unravels on one evening in a decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. The stages of grieving are dramatized through five parallel coming-of-age stories. A young woman fighting for custody of her children turns to the bottle for comfort. The children, a nineteen-year-old heroin addict and his younger brother, a tormented closet gay, are still haunted by their mother's ex-cruelty. husband's There's the story of the dog, as well as an adolescent who provides sexual favors in exchange for acceptance, a challenged classmate who would go to any length for love, and a redhead beauty who is tormented by a tragic past. On this penultimate evening before The Toy Soldiers Roller Rink shutters its doors for the last time, their and other people's lives will be forever changed.
Released: 2014-11-14
Genre:
Drama