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Marked for Death (1990)

Marked for Death poster
Directed by
Dwight H. Little
Genre
action film, martial arts film, thriller film, buddy cop film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 600 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A retired DEA agent goes back to his Illinois hometown and finds Jamaican drug dealers have taken over the area. He decides to fight them using his martial arts skills and tactical knowledge.

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What happens

Marked for Death is a 1990 American action film directed by Dwight H. Little. The film stars Steven Seagal as John Hatcher, a former DEA troubleshooter who returns to his Illinois hometown to find it taken over by a posse of vicious Jamaican drug dealers led by Screwface. Using a combination of fear and Obeah, a Jamaican syncretic religion of West African and Caribbean origin similar to Haitian vodou and SanterĂ­a, Screwface attempts to control the drug trade in Lincoln Heights. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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