Fresh Page #3

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


- My mother is white.

- Get outta here.

- She is. Straight up white.

Why she never come

to school, then?

She don't want you

'cause youre black, right?

- Why dont you live

with your mother?

- I do.

You live with your aunt,

with Hilary and Jewel

and all them others...

- so you can stop fronting

any time now.

- Shut up.

My mother's married

to a millionaire.

Word, she live

with Tarleak's old man,

with all them limos and sh*t.

She lives in Scarsdale.

She's got a big house.

Near as big

as this whole school.

You gotta go through a gate

and drive through a whole

forest just to get to it.

- What kind of car she drive?

- A sports car.

- What kind of sports car?

- I don't know. A Jaguar.

If I had me a million dollars,

I'd get me a Porsche 959.

I'd get me a sports car.

A Jaguar.

Damn, I'd get me

a Ferrari Testarosa, V-1 2 engine...

get me a Porsche 930,

straight six turbo engine...

get me a Vector B-1 2,

twin turbo...

go from zero to 60

in 7.8 seconds,

so don't even talk.

Yeah, well, who cares, 'cause

you ain't never gonna have

a million dollars anyway.

- I will too!

- Who's trippin' now?

Ain't nobody trippin'.

I'm gonna have it.

Someday, I'm gonna have it.

Hi, Grandma.

Yo, what up?

Why is everybody out here?

We just here.

What a place to spend

our last night on earth...

What up, y'all?

Hey.

Where Aunt Francis at?

She home.

Yo, why everybody

around here illin'?

Yo, I got winners.

Michael?

You're home.

Look, Nichole.

Your brother's here.

Hey, Nicky.

I know Michael wants you

to come back and stay with us

for a while.

Look, Aunt Francis, I just came

to get a few of my things.

I'm not staying.

Michael, you want Nicky

to stay with us, dont you?

Cant sleep here no more.

There's like a thousand little girls

running in and out of here.

Like my feet are hanging off

the edge of the bed already.

I know it.

I know it's crowded in here.

And you being

a grown woman and all.

Nicky, take my bed.

Doesn't matter to me.

I can sleep in here with

the girls for a while.

Aunt Francis,

I don't want your bed.

Well...

I guess I'll leave you alone

with your brother for a while.

Maybe he can talk to you about

staying with us a little longer.

Michael ain't no one

to talk to nobody about nothin'.

I gotta go.

- Michael?

- What?

Why you come home so late?

You know Aunt Francis

be gettin' worried when

you come home so late.

It's hard enough on her

without you be worryin' her

all the time.

If she gets too fed up

and gives all of us up,

I'm gonna kill you.

'Cause ain't none of us

can go back to our parents...

and I ain't goin'

back to no group home,

you hear me?

You my cousin and all,

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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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