Drop Squad (1994)

Directed by

David Clark Johnson

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

R

Rating

3.5 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of African Americans kidnap other black people they believe have betrayed their community. They try to deprogram them and restore their pride.

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What happens

Drop Squad (sometimes spelled as DROP Squad or D.R.O.P. Squad) is a 1994 American drama film directed by David C. Johnson and executive produced by Spike Lee via his production company 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. The plot depicts a team of African Americans who kidnap fellow black people who they feel have betrayed their community and seek to "deprogram" them so that they will change their ways. The acronym DROP stands for "Deprogramming and Restoration of Pride". The film has been described as "[p]art thriller, part social satire". The film was based in part on The Session, a 45-minute film Johnson produced in 1988 on a $20,000 budget, and ultimately derived from a short story by David C. Taylor titled "The Deprogrammer". Johnson described the differences between the two films as follows: "The short film was basically satire, an absurdist piece .... D.R.O.P. Squad, on the other hand, is realism. The characters have more at stake." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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