Syndicate Boys

Syndicate Boys is a 1975 coming of age American Drama written by George Lucas and directed by John Huston

It stars a 13 year old Brad Pitt and a 10 year old Robert Downey Jr and a remaining cast of

It concerns two boys fleeing from the law and from home and is the winner of two Academy Awards and one nomination:

1. Best Screenplay (George Lucas) 2. Best Director (John Huston) and 3. Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Maclaine).

The film serves as an inspiration for the later story Sleepers and it's film adaption (which ironically later starred Brad) as the random male bystander killed which has the protagonist four boys of Sleepers sent to Wilkinson's home of boys accidentally dropped a hot dog cart on him.

The manslaughter takes from the flashback scene in Syndicate Boys as the four naughty kids play around with the Science Class Chemical Cart which they accidentally drop upon their science teacher killing him.

Story
Two boys are framed for the accidental killing of their Elementary School science teacher Mr. Oswald who died as a large Chemical Cart makes collision with him.

The framed boys abandon home and pack up for a runaway refusing to be taken away to the seperate juvenile homes they have been told they will.

The two boys however fall into bad company as they come into the stay of their town's drug farmers and one suffers a snakebite.

By the end the boys come to a town hospital and they call the police to come collect them along with their mothers to see them off.

They are taken as the one recovers from the extraction of the snake venom and both boys serve four years in their imprisonements until the evidence emerges that they were indeed innocent.

The Snakebite younger boy however suffered much abuse in his four years including sexual and as a result committs suicide.

The remaining boy at the age of