Only the Strong (1993)

Editor's Note A Special Forces officer returns to his home town to find his high school overrun with drugs and violence. He trains the 12 worst students in Capoeira, a South American martial arts style, and soon has an army to fight the druglord supplying the drugs.

	Geoffrey Lewis
	Mark Dacascos
	Paco Christian Prieto
	Stacey Travis
	Edward J. Pei - Cinematographer
	Sheldon Lettich - Director
	Stephen Semel - Editor
	Samuel Hadida, et al. - Producer
	Luis Esteban - Screenplay
	Sheldon Lettich - Screenplay

Ex-Green Beret Louis Stevens returns to his old high school in Miami and takes on his toughest assignment yet: whipping a group of the school's worst juvenile delinquents into shape. Stevens, a master of the graceful, potentially lethal form of Brazilian martial art known as capoeira, decides to put the kids through a rigorous training program. The unruly youths improve by leaps and bounds as they gain self-respect and a sense of empowerment through the discipline of the sport. Using their newfound skill, the boys, with the help of Stevens, take on the vicious neighborhood gang that is terrorizing their school -- the leader of which just happens to be an expert in capoeira.

"You've just done what professionals haven't done in five years. You've got their attention." ---- a teacher to Louis Stevens (Mark Dacascos)

Variety
"...Dascascos bears some physical resemblance to the late Brandon Lee and possesses some of the same easy charm..." 09/06/1993