Director: RoD Holcomb Producer: Jonathan D. Krane
Content: Unusually sincere for a crime film, the minor but well-intentioned CHAINS OF GOLD is a welcome change from the kill-them-and-quip insouciance typical of buddy-cop romps. Set in drug-soaked Miami, the story centers on Scott Barnes(John Travolta), a recovering alcoholic whose boozing caused his small son's car-wreck death. Now a maverick social worker, Scott gets personally involved in his casses, especially that of Tommy Burke (Joey Lawrence), a plucky adolecent who's mixed up with a cocaine combine run by a murderous 21-year-old multimillionaire named Carlos(Benjamin Bratt). When Tommy gets forced into narco-slavery, working day and night in Carlos's Dickensian crack-packaging plant, Scott launches a one-man rescue.
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