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Mar 4, 2008 · Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" (USA Today) At once an intense mystery and a revealing study of two men, a veteran homicide detective and an innercity crack dealer, on opposite sides of an endless war.
- Richard Price
May 20, 1992 · Price (The Breaks, 1982, etc.) has spent the past ten years writing for Hollywood (Sea of Love, etc.)—but you wouldn't know it from the dense textures and supple dramatics of this epic slice of urban grit about frazzled drug-dealers and burnt-out cops. Of the many impeccably authentic urban types here, Price focuses on two: 20-ish Strike Dunham, black chief of a crew of crack-dealers ...
67. R 2 hr 8 min Sep 15th, 1995 Crime, Drama, Mystery. Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found ...
Sep 13, 1995 · The film's haunting themes are vividly visualized during the opening credits, which run over police photos of dead young black men, shot and sprawled on sidewalks, in streets, and hanging over fences. Strike (Mekhi Phifer) is a 19-year-old African-American "clocker" -- the lowest link on the drug dealing chain -- who hangs around park benches ...
Sep 7, 2018 · When Clockers was released almost 23 years ago, people criticized it for wrapping up storylines with a little red bow, and some characters had happy endings (bleak as those outcomes were). What wasn’t realized at the time is how revolutionary that really was. African-Americans in fictional entertainment don’t have to be killed off at the ...
Clockers was years ahead of its time. It’s a visceral crime film that gives us a powerful look at the urban drug trade and the bleak despair of escaping your circumstances while exploring race ...
Apr 15, 2011 · Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese join forces in the riveting story of Strike (Mekhi Phifer), a hardworking "clocker" (24-hour drug dealer) whose trouble begins ...
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