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Synopsis: The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miserably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Mario Van Peebles
Actors: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
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R
Year:
1991
97 min
2,934 Views

Damn.

Crack.

Hey, dreadlocks. What did Bombock

have to say? That b*tch!

Let me speak with you.

Rastaman, I'm here to tell you

Nino Brown says...

...your services are no longer

needed in the community.

That's how you kill somebody. You get

right up on the motherf***er and blam!

Blow his brains all over the sidewalk

in broad daylight.

Rock-a-bye baby.

Brother, I think there's been

a little misunderstanding.

Now look, you are going to give up

those apartments, huh?

And you are going to turn over

control of the Carter.

Because if you don't...

...this shotgun blows your big,

fat head off...

...before you can get

your clothes back on.

Is that clear?

Living

Living just enough

Living just for the city

Living living living just enough

And now we're living

Living

Just enough

For the city

For the New Jack City

Do things do things do things

Bad things with it

Do things do things do things

Bad things with it

Almighty dollar

People don't let money

Don't let money change you

Don't let money change it

For the love of money

People will steal from their brother

For the love of money

People will rob their own mother

Money money

Just enough

For the city I live in

Living in a New

Jack

City

If you just say "no,"

what will you say "yes" to?

We say "yes" to education.

We say "yes" to dedication.

We climb up...

...to a higher station

of new spiritual motivation...

...to make a positive impact

on our nation.

Sergeant, I'm talking to you.

I want to know how drug pushers can take

over an entire apartment building...

...right under your nose.

If you lived in The Carter Apartments,

there'd be cops all over the place.

Hey, don't walk away. Listen to me!

I fought for this country. We pay taxes

and we're prisoners in our home.

I told the Commissioner

you were running late.

- You got those files?

- Right here.

Let's hope he buys it.

Peretti and Appleton. No way, Stone.

Who else you got?

- They're the ones I need.

- You kidding me?

Nick Peretti almost killed his partner

in a chase, Appleton's on suspension.

Probation.

Semantics, Stone.

These 2 are trouble.

You and I know the system

wasn't ready for this epidemic.

Crack came on the scene

and spread like wildfire.

But now I got the mayor

and the governor on my back...

...and I need some results. Fast.

You get me Nino Brown.

Forget Peretti and Appleton.

The risk is too high.

With all due respect, sir...

...you still don't get it.

You're not giving me what I need

to win this war.

I need cops that know these streets.

I need new jack cops

to take down a new jack gangster.

What you call a risk...

...I think is our only shot.

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Thomas Lee Wright

Thomas Lee Wright, an American writer and Academy Award nominated filmmaker, is best known for his timely and powerful documentaries, including "Edith+Eddie" (producer) which won the IDA (International Documentary Association) Best Short award and an Oscar nomination, "Eight-Tray Gangster" (director) for the Discovery Channel which tells the story of L.A.'s Rodney King riots from a gang member's perspective, and the award-winning WTO 'Battle in Seattle' chronicle "Trade Off" (producer) for Human Rights Watch. Three of his films deal with war veterans - "The Long Ride Home" (director), "To Them That's Gone" (exec producer) and "Last Flag Flying" (exec producer) which he developed as a feature film for director Richard Linklater, starring Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell and Laurence Fishburne. Wright also penned the original screenplay for the Warner Brothers hit "New Jack City" starring Wesley Snipes, Chris Rock and Ice-T, which the New York Times called "an urban classic" on the 25th anniversary of its premiere. A Minnesota native, Wright attended Harvard University, writing and directing plays and earning a degree in English Literature with honors, then studied Irish Theater at Trinity College, Dublin, while playing point guard for its national championship basketball team. Moving to Los Angeles, Wright became a story editor at Walt Disney and Columbia Pictures, before serving as a creative executive at Paramount Pictures, where he helped develop "48 HRS", "Trading Places", "Flashdance" and other movies. Wright's treatment for "The Godfather, Part Three" launched his screenwriting career and led to writing projects for every major studio and many of Hollywood's top producers, including Peter Guber, Dino De Laurentiis, Mike Medavoy, Daniel Melnick and Don Simpson, among others. Wright co-wrote a pair of definitive widely-used books about filmmaking - 'Working in Hollywood' traces the making of a motion picture through tasks performed by 64 different workers behind the scenes, and 'American Screenwriters' which is a collection of interviews with top writers discussing the craft and business of screenwriting. more…

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