Fresh Page #2

Synopsis: Fresh (Sean Nelson) is a 12-year-old drug dealer who finds himself trapped in a web of poverty, corruption and racial tension in Brooklyn, New York. When his drug-addict sister Nichole (N'Bushe Wright) starts sleeping with local drug lord Esteban (Giancarlo Esposito), Fresh calls upon the skills he learned playing chess with his alcoholic father and speed-chess champion Sam (Samuel L. Jackson) and devises a complex strategy that will free both himself and his sister.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Boaz Yakin
Production: Miramax
  4 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
R
Year:
1994
114 min
2,000 Views


Power!

Power!

That's it.

Yo, that sh*t's mine.

Not with a prayer, n*gger.

That's it.

- That sh*t's mine

This is mine.

- Look, look, n*gger.

- Yeah, that's mine.

That's right.

- Sh*t.

Step right up,

step right up.

One more, my good man.

One more.

Only if you flip

Willie Randolph.

- Uh-uh. Sorry, G.

- Yo, forget it, then.

Yo, I gave my last

Willie Randolph double

to Fresh in class, man.

- I only got one left.

- Flip Willie Randolph!

No! N-O spells no.

No one never flips him.

And it be costing me

six bucks of packs 'til I get him.

You a chump buyin'

them shits, man.

I ain't never bought me

no baseball card.

- Been stealin' them shits all day.

- Stealin' them shits all day.

Yo, shut up, Tarleak.

You ain't never stole sh*t,

so shut up!

- Yes, I did.

- Why you ain't got nothin'?

Show me your cards.

I ain't bring 'em with me.

N*ggers be always jumpin' me

for my baseball cards.

- Yo, shut up, retard.

- My old man got every series

of baseball cards since 1900.

He got Willie Mays,

Jackie Robinson, all of them.

They didn't even have baseball

cards back then, stupid.

- Uh-huh, I seen 'em.

- Yeah, where?

At my old man 's.

He got all them cards where he at.

Where he be keepin ' 'em at?

In his, like, how many limos?

Six. N*gger got six limos.

Word, six of'em.

Stupid big limos.

You haven't even met

your father, motherf***er.

- I did!

- You haven't even

seen the motherf***er...

so shut the f*** up

before I kick your bucktooth,

nappy-head ass!

- Look at this.

- He be lookin' at her like this.

- Shut up, n*gger.

- I don't be likin' them b*tches.

Always be trippin'.

Walkin' with their nose up,

like they all that.

Word, always hittin' me and sh*t.

- Like that girl Shanice.

She don't stop 'til I smack her.

- Word, right.

They be hittin'you

'til you smack 'em.

Then they cry,

but they like that sh*t.

Word, they think they all that,

but they just want you

to smack they head.

Oh.

Where you goin ', man?

Watchin 'girls.

- That's cold, man.

- Leavin' his best friend

for a girl, man.

Yo, Rosie, stop looking at me, all right?

Why you always lookin' at me?

- 'Cause you look at me

so much, I can't help it.

- I don't look at you.

- You do. You're always lookin' at me.

- You trippin'.

You drag all your friends

into our cheerleading practice

like it's all their idea...

but you bring 'em

so you can look at me.

- You stupid trippin'.

- It's all right. I think it's cute.

Girls always be sayin',

"Mikey got them spotty

white spots on him."

But I think it's cute, I do.

I think it's real cute.

- Damn, you be lookin'

almost white yourself.

- I am.

- Damn, why you buggin' out?

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Boaz Yakin

Boaz Yakin (born June 20, 1966) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer based in New York City. He has penned the screenplays to films like The Rookie, A Price Above Rubies, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and Now You See Me, and has directed the 2000 sports drama Remember the Titans and the 2012 Jason Statham action film Safe. As a producer he has collaborated frequently with filmmaker Eli Roth and served as executive producer for the first two entries in the Hostel franchise. more…

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