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| Year: | 1991 |
| Rating: | 6.2(10683) |
| Listed in: | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Mario Van Peebles |
| Actors: | Wesley Snipes Ice-T Allen Payne Chris Rock Mario Van Peebles Michael Michele |
| "Where survival depends on friends, trust and power... An organized crime family out to run this city is up against cops who knows its streets." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Mario Van Peebles | |
| Actors | |
| Wesley Snipes | as Nino Brown |
| Ice-T | as Scotty Appleton |
| Allen Payne | as Gee Money |
| Chris Rock | as Pookie |
| Mario Van Peebles | as Stone |
| Bill Nunn | as Duh Duh Duh Man |
| Russell Wong | as Park |
| Bill Cobbs | as Old Man |
| Christopher Williams | as Kareem Akbar |
| Judd Nelson | as Nick Peretti |
| Anthony DeSando | as Frankie Needles |
| Nick Ashford | as Reverend Oates |
| Thalmus Rasulala | as Police Commissioner |
| John Aprea | as Don Armeteo |
| Fab 5 Freddy | as Master of Ceremonies |
| Flavor Flav | as D.J. |
| Clebert Ford | as Frazier |
| Eek-A-Mouse | as Fat Smitty |
| Gregg Smrz | as Biff |
| Keith Sweat | as Singer at Wedding |
| Max Rabinowitz | as Gigantor |
| Manuel E. Santiago | as Judge |
| Ben Gotlieb | as Prosecuting Attorney |
| Christopher Michael | as Bailiff |
| Tiger Frederick | as Basketball Player |
| Rynel Johnson | as Basketball Player |
| Paul Raczkowski | as Recovering Addict |
| Erik Kilpatrick | as Recovering Addict |
| Harold Baines | as Kid on Stoop |
| Sekou Campbell | as Kid on Stoop |
| David Michael Golson | as Kid on Stoop |
| Garvin Holder | as Kid on Stoop |
| Leo O'Brien | as Kid on Stoop |
| Bobby Stancil | as Kid on Stoop |
| Teddy Riley | as New Year's Eve Band - (Guy) |
| Aaron Hall | as New Year's Eve Band - (Guy) |
| Damien Hall | as New Year's Eve Band - (Guy) |
| Rodney Benford | as Singers - Spring - (Troop) |
| John Harreld | as Singers - Spring - (Troop) |
| Allen McNeil | as Singers - Spring - (Troop) |
| Steve Russell | as Singers - Spring - (Troop) |
| Reggie Warren | as Singers - Spring - (Troop) |
| Gerald Levert | as Singers - Winter - (Levert) |
| Sean Levert | as Singers - Winter - (Levert) |
| Marc Gordon | as Singers - Winter - (Levert) |
| Larry M. Cherry | as Barber |
| Actresses | |
| Michael Michele | as Selina |
| Vanessa Williams | as Keisha |
| Tracy Camilla Johns | as Uniqua |
| Phyllis Yvonne Stickney | as Prosecuting Attorney Hawkins |
| Laverne Hart | as Prom Queen |
| Erica McFarquhar | as Teacher |
| Marcella Lowery | as Woman in Hallway |
| Thelma Louise Carter | as Reporter |
| Linda Froehlich | as Reporter |
| Kelly Jo Minter | as Recovering Addict |
| Tina Lifford | as Recovering Addict |
| Akosua Busia | as Courtroom Spectator |
| Lia Chang | as Scotty's Girl |
| Toni Ann Johnson | as Girl in the Window |
| Cinti Laird | as Brides Maid of Honor at Wedding Reception |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 16 April 1990 - 6 June 1990 |
| Budget: | USD 8,500,000 |
| Plot: | In 1989, Nino Brown, a small time drug dealer, is convinced by one of his fellow thugs that the wave of the future is in the cocaine derivative, crack. Brown sees potential in crack and sets out to establish himself as chief kingpin by killing off his rivals and even going as far as to take over a whole apartment complex. Out to stop him are undercover cops Scottie Appleton and Nick Paretti. Appleton especially wants to get Nino because of the fact that he murdered Scottie's mother as part of a gang initiation. Also involved is Pookie, a former crack head who wants to bring down Nino as well. |
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"NEW JACK HUSTLER (NINO'S THEME)" Written by Ice-T Produced by D.J. Aladdin and Ice-T Performed by Ice-T Courtesy of Sire Records Company "NEW JACK CITY" Written by Teddy Riley , Aaron Hall and Bernard Belle Produced by Teddy Riley Performed by Guy Courtesy of MCA Records "(THERE YOU GO) TELLING ME NO AGAIN" Written and Produced by Keith Sweat and Bobby Wooten Performed by Keith Sweat Courtesy of Elektra Entertainment "I'M STILL WAITING" Written by H. Randall Davis Produced by Randy Ran Performed by Johnny Gill Courtesy of Motown Record Company L.P. "I'M DREAMIN'" Written and Produced by Stanley Brown Performed by Christopher Williams Courtesy of Geffen Records "FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY" Written by Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Anthony Jackson Performed by Troop and Levert Rap by Queen Latifah Troop and Levert appear courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp. Queen Latifah appears courtesy of Tommy Boy Records "LIVING FOR THE CITY" Written by Stevie Wonder Performed by Troop and Levert Rap by Queen Latifah Troop and Levert appear courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp. Queen Latifah appears courtesy of Tommy Boy Records "I WANNA SEX YOU UP" Written and Produced by Dr. Freeze Performed by Color Me Badd Courtesy of Giant Records "IN THE DUST" Written by Brother Marquis (as M. Ross), Fresh Kid Ice (as C. Wong Won), R. Terry, M. McCray and Luther Campbell (as L. Campbell) Performed by 2 Live Crew Courtesy of Luke Records / Atlantic Recording Corp. "GET IT TOGETHER (BLACK IS A FORCE)" Written by Amery Ware, Joseph Brim and Al B. Sure! Produced by Al B. Sure! Performed by F.S. Effect Courtesy of Giant Records "LYRICS 2 THE RHYTHM" Written by T. Marie, T. Armstrong, R. Smith, T. Hutchinson & Grandmaster Flash (as J. Saddler) Produced by Grandmaster Flash Performed by Essence Courtesy of Giant Records "FACTS OF LIFE" Written by D. Madden, C. McIntosh, T. Jacobs and K. Nicholas Produced by Danny Madden and Carl McIntosh Performed by Danny Madden Courtesy of Eternal Records / WEA Records Ltd. By Arrangement with Warner Special Products "THE SHOW" Written by Doug E. Fresh (as Douglas Davis) and Slick Rick (as Ricky Walters) Performed by Doug E. Fresh and The Get Fresh Crew Courtesy of Danya Records Ltd. "THE REDHEAD ONE" Written by David 'Redhead' Guppy (as Redhead Kingpin) Performed by David 'Redhead' Guppy (as Redhead Kingpin) and The F.B.I. Courtesy of Virgin Records America, Inc. "STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON" Written by M.C. Ren, Ice Cube, Eazy-E and Dr. Dre Performed by N.W.A. Courtesy of Priority Records, Inc. / Ruthless Records |
Goofs
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Continuity: The length of Nino's banana when talking to Frankie Needles. Continuity: Just before Nino's meeting with Frankie Needles, he's talking on the phone about taking over the Carter apartments but he had already done that in the beginning of the movie. Continuity: Nino's crew has already seized the Carter Apartments for their operations, but later he's still talking about taking them over at the New Year's Eve party when Frankie Needles interrupts him. Revealing mistakes: "Pookie" is be blinking during the bomb defusing scene, even though he is supposed to be dead. Continuity: When Nino stabs Kareem, the dagger is in Kareem's hand in one shot, but next to his hand in another. Continuity: When Nino's home is raided, it's supposed to be morning, but during one of the break in shots, it's night time (you can even hear crickets). Continuity: The amount of crack in the vial on the table when they first decide to change operations. Continuity: When Kareem takes Pookie to talk to Gee Money about a promotion, the camera cuts between being in the room and looking through the wire that Pookie is wearing. Gee Money is on the phone during this exchange and his hands switch positions wildly between the shots. BOOM: Boom mic shadow on Scotty's hat on the beach. SYNC: When the CMB is taking over the Carter Projects by force, the man who gets shot by an Uzi-toting thug while defending his family has holes and blood on his back before the sound of the gunfire is heard. Continuity: When the train hits the cyclist, the approaching train changes back and forth between a 1960s Multiple Unit electric train set with manually operated doors and a 1970s M2 Cosmopolitan train set with powered sliding doors. Revealing mistakes: At the beginning of the movie, while coming up to the bridge you can hear the news report that Don Armeteo has been gunned down along with other members of his crew. That does not happen until much later in the movie. SYNC: SPOILER: When Nino Brown shoots Gee Money, the gun only receives a Foley effect. There is no recoil, no flash, and no outward indication it had actually fired. Continuity: When Needles comes to the club on New Years Eve, Nino pulls a knife and cuts off Needles ponytail. The ponytail comes loose an inch above the blade of the knife when Nino pulls on the ponytail before he moves the blade. Continuity: As Nino, Gee Money and the Duh Duh Man are traveling in the Jeep, they go from St. Nicholas Avenue to 7th Avenue and back between shots and without changing avenues. Continuity: The type of car on the Metro-North train changes in between shots as Detective Appleton is chasing Pooky. Continuity: When Nino Brown confronts Gee Money, we see he has a gunshot wound in his shoulder. After the second bust, Gee Money never got shot. Continuity: When Nino Brown kills the first cop in the second bust, we see he removes the cop's hat and puts it over the cop's face. When he killed Park, we can see that Brown is wearing the same cap. PLOT: Shelves full of VCRs tape Pookie's time inside The Carter, including G Money giving the order to kill Pookie after his cover is blown. Despite all that taped evidence that could be used to convict G Money, several others and flip them as witnesses against Nino, the operation is declared a total failure and the tapes are never used. Fact errors: During the wedding scene, the two cops break into Nino's safe to steal computer discs. Any evidence gained directly or indirectly from these would be tossed out of court as inadmissible as the result of a (blatantly) illegal search. Violation of basic Constitutional law. CHAR: No cop would show up to testify at a trial with sunglasses on and put his feet up on the front of the witness stand, as Scotty does in the closing court scenes. Officers who testify are instructed to come in suits and don't sit like they're in their basement watching TV. |
Quotes
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Nino Brown: Sit your five-dollar ass down before I make change. G-Money: I had my jimmy waxed every day last week! Scotty Appleton: I wanna shoot you so bad, my dick's hard! Nino Brown: Money talks, and bullshit runs a marathon. So, see ya and I wouldn't want to be ya. Pooky: They got that shit hooked up like Mission Impossible, man! [last lines] Old Man: Idolater! Your soul is required in hell! [Shoots Nino] Nick Peretti: Drugs ain't a black thing, or a white thing. It's a death thing. Death don't give a shit about color. Pooky: [sobbing] I tried to kick... but that shit just be callin' me man, it be callin' me, man... I just got to go to it! Pooky: Scottie, help me - I'm gonna die! [peers into camera in despair] Nino Brown: You gotta rob to get rich in the Reagan era. [about a room used for freebasing] Pooky: They call it the Enterprise Room, man, because it's for people who wanna be beamed up to Scotty. Nick Peretti: Is this one of those black things? Nino Brown: I'm not guilty. *You're* the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Columbian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during the prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: Ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way. Nino Brown: [Referring to his girlfriend] Cancel that bitch, I'll buy another one. Scotty Appleton: [reading Pooky his rights] Anything you say can and will be used against you in a muthafuckin' court of law! Scotty Appleton: What? All he gets is a year? No, this ain't happening. I should have killed you myself, bitch. Nino Brown: Well, that's the difference between you and me. Don't get mad, Tito. It's the *law*. Sucks, huh? Well, maybe when this is over with, you can come and work for me. Nino Brown: Am I my brother's keeper? Yes I am. Nino Brown: Yo baby, we talkin' about combinating and consolidating, that's what's up! Nino Brown: Yeah, we takin' over the Carter. We gon' bum rush the whole damn thing. Now if the tenants cooperate, oh, it'll be lovely. They'll be loyal customers, if not, fuck it, it'll be like in Beirut, they'll be live-in hostages. Nino Brown: I never liked you anyway, Pretty Motherfucka! G-Money: [talking to Uniqua] I knew I should've treated you like a hooker, you ain't nothing but a high-priced ho! Put Nino on the phone, bitch! G-Money: [talking to Duh Duh Man] Unadulterated! Would you please shut the fuck up before you have a seizure! Scotty Appleton: I should have killed you myself, bitch! Scotty Appleton: Man a drug dealer is the worst kind of brother. I mean, he won't sell it to his sister. He won't sell it to his mother, but he'll sell it to one a his boys on the street. Scotty Appleton: I don't know about you, man. But I'm ready to kill Nino Brown. Scotty Appleton: Yeah, yeah, yeah a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Now back to the titties. Nino Brown: You cut a side deal with that motherfucker. [G-Money opens his mouth, but Nino interrupts him] Yes, you did. Yes, you did, Gee. Fucking Cain. My brother's keeper. Was it this... [takes crack pipe from him]... glass dick you've been sucking on? Was that it? Now I see how you let that motherfucker infiltrate. He used you, Gee. What ever happened to, "Am I my brother's keeper?" G-Money: [Sullenly] You know what happened to it. "The world is mine." Remember that? "Everything is mine. Everything!" Even my woman. Nino Brown: Is that what this is about? [about Uniqua] That fucking skeezer? You think I give a fuck about her? Fuck that ho bitch! I don't give a fuck about her! G-Money: It ain't about her! It's about us. I love you, man. [Nino turns his back on G-Money, making him angrier and angrier] G-Money: You embarrassed me, man! In front of all them people, you treated me like I was soft. You treated me like I was spineless! We built this shit! You didn't do this shit by yourself! You forgot about me, man, your brother. Nino Brown: What has this done to us? Keisha... dead. The Duh Duh Man... dead. G-Money: Let's just make it like it was. Let's be a family. Let's make it like it was. Fuck them cars and them bitches and all that shit. Fuck that shit! Let's do us, me and you. Let's be a family again. [Nino, in tears, hugs G-Money] Nino Brown: I'm on the run. It can never go back the way it was. [Nino kisses G-Money on the cheek] Nino Brown: But I'll tell you how we can make it right. [Nino shoves G-Money away and pulls out his gun; G-Money falls to his knees] G-Money: CMB. CMB! We all we got! [Nino grips his wrist in order to steady the gun he is holding] G-Money: Am I my brother's keeper. Nino Brown: [Grits his teeth] Yes I am! [Nino shoots G-Money dead and for a brief moment turns the gun towards his own head, but stops himself] Scotty Appleton: Operation's gone, Nino's loose, Pookie's dead. I got Pookie killed, man. Nick Peretti: Cut out this self-pitying shit about you killing Pookie. If anyone killed him it was me. I could see it. Scotty Appleton: How the hell you gonna to tell me you killed Pookie? Nick Peretti: Do you remember when you said I didn't care? When what the hell was I doing at Pookie's funeral anyway? Remember? I used to be Pookie. Scotty Appleton: How the hell you used to be Pookie? Nick Peretti: I was poor white-trash Pookie. This whole drug shit, it's not a black thing, it's not a white thing. It's a death thing. Death don't give a shit about color. You don't have to like me. Hell, I don't even know if I like you. But we're in this together now, partner. Scotty Appleton: You know, a drug dealer is the worst kind of brother. He won't sell it to his sister, he won't sell it to his mother. But he'll sell it to one of his boys in the street. I don't know about you, but I'm ready to kill Nino Brown. Are you with me? Nick Peretti: I'm ahead of you. [Scotty and Nick clink beer bottles] [as Frankie Needles departs from a nightclub, Nick and Scottie stick him up] Nick Peretti: Behind Door Number One, your head explodes like a melon! Scotty Appleton: Behind door Number Two, you hook us up with Gee Money and get the prize, Nino Brown. Nino Brown: You sound like this shit'll change the world. G-Money: I don't know about all that change-the-world shit, but I do know they be going crazy over this. And the bitches... oh lord! Them bitches, they do anything for this, man! I had my jimmy waxed every day last week! You understand? Several times a day! Nino Brown: [laughs] Get the fuck out of here! I know damn well ain't nobody sucked your shriveled-up dick. G-Money: You trying to dis me? Nino Brown: I'm just telling the truth. That's all I'm doing. Several times a day, my ass. Nino Brown: [after the carter is shut down] A million dollar a week business reduce to fucking rubble! |
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