New Jack City (1991)

Directed by

Mario Van Peebles

Genre

drama film, action film, crime film, neo-noir, hood film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 611 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A New York City detective goes undercover to bring down a drug lord during the crack epidemic. The story follows both the rise of the drug kingpin and the detective's dangerous mission to stop him.

tensegrittyharshfast-pacedviolentatmosphericbleakdramaticintense

What happens

New Jack City is a 1991 American crime action film directed by Mario Van Peebles (in his feature film directorial debut) and written by Thomas Lee Wright and Barry Michael Cooper, based on a story by Wright. The film stars Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Judd Nelson, Bill Cobbs, Bill Nunn, and Van Peebles. Its plot follows Nino Brown, a drug lord in New York City during the crack epidemic, and Scotty Appleton, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) detective who vows to end Nino's rise to power by going undercover to work for Nino's gang. New Jack City premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 1991, and was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 8, 1991. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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