Racing for Time (2008)
1h 23m
Running Time
February 16, 2008Release Date
Plot.
Cleveland 'Stack' Stackhouse 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.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Charles S. Dutton
Lt. Stack
Elizabeth Peña
Flores
Yaya DaCosta
Vanessa
Tiffany Haddish
Denise
Zulay Henao
Carmen
Alessandra Ford Balazs
Actress
Saige Thompson
Cheryl
Glenn German
Writer
DeQuina Moore
Tonya
Adam Rodgers
Writer
Christopher Morgan
Producer
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Officer Baker
Lance E. Nichols
Keith Simons
Peter Sadowski
Producer
Ruthie Austin
Reggie Donald
The Angel
Composer
William Wages
Cinematographer
Tameka Bob
Tray Williams
Stephen Edmond
Greer Fincher
Shanna Forrestall
Sgt. Jane Daniels
Douglas M. Griffin
Braylon Nash
Sara Jane Henriques
Maria
Louis Herthum
Ralph Connelly
Rachel Loera
Alex Peña
Jessica Craig
Lane Three
Lawrence P. Beron
Race Starter
Christine Biancardi
New inmate
Diane Nabatoff
Executive Producer
Rocky Lang
Executive Producer
Frank von Zerneck
Executive Producer
Raymond Pumilia
Set Decoration
Robert M. Sertner
Executive Producer
Details.
Release DateFebruary 16, 2008
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 23m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsNew Orleans, United States of America
Genres
Wiki.
Racing for Time is a 2008 Lifetime television film 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.