Boiling Pot

Sep 29, 2015

1h 35m

★ 5.2

Everyone is guilty

Overview

On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as "issues of the past" emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow between different student groups.

Genres

Crime

History

Drama

Production Companies

Ashmawey Films

Boiling Pot Trailers

Cast

Valerie Davis

Danielle Fishel

Detective Haven

Louis Gossett Jr.

Dean Marison

M. Emmet Walsh

Agent Long

Keith David

Rose Torrance

Davetta Sherwood

Hazem Seif

Ibrahim Ashmawey

Anwar Seif

Sayed Badreya

Tim Davis

John Heard

Laura Daniels

Corrin Evans

Claire Davis

Ashley Lynn Switzer

Garret Parrin

Matt Koenig

Alexander Kraus

David Menich

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