Producers: Polly Draper, Michael Wolff, Karen Tangorra
Screenwriter: Polly Draper
Director of Photography: Wolfgang Held
Production Designer: Rick Butler
Editors: Bill Pankow, Kate Sanford, Henk Van Eeghan
Principal cast: Gregory Hines, Polly Draper, Christopher George Marquette, Desmond Robertson, Carlos McKinney, Bill Nunn

Twelve-year-old jazz piano prodigy Miles and saxophonist Tyrone Pike (Gregory Hines at his best) share three things: a passion for music, the neurological disorder Tourette's syndrome (hence the title, which Pike coins to befuddle a school bully), and a stormy relationship with the boy's mom (thirtysomething star Polly Draper). Draper's warm and funny script was inspired by the life of her husband and co-producer, former Arsenio bandleader Michael Wolff. You don't have to love jazz to fall under the spell of this uplifting fable, but you may have to fight for tickets with those who have already heard about the film's wonderfully atmospheric performances, dialogue, and visual style (in its fairy tale profane New York, people are "cats" and music is "smokin"'). In Miles' lingo, The Tic Code is "fierce." - Eddle Cockrell