Once in the Life Page #3

Synopsis: Once in the life (of drug dealing and organized crime), can anyone get out? During a brief jail stay, two half-brothers, who have rarely seen each other while growing up, connect. One of them, called 20/20 Mike because he can sense people nearby, concocts a scheme in which the two of them will steal some dope from young couriers. The heist goes awry when Billy, the junkie brother, shoots the victims of the theft. The brothers hole up in an abandoned building, and 20/20 Mike seeks help from an old cell mate, Tony, whom he thinks is out of the life. It turns out that they have stolen Tony's dope, and Tony's boss wants the two thieves dead. Is there any way out?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Laurence Fishburne
Production: Trimark
 
IMDB:
5.3
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
28%
R
Year:
2000
107 min
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about my mom? Ha ha ha! F***ing a**hole. You f***ing put

your hands up to me again, I'll throw you

a f***ing beating you'll never forget. I'm sorry, all right? Look. You're

pretty good with the smitties,

right? Maybe we could make

some money together. Doing what? This and that.

A little flim, a little flam,

you know. I don't know. What? Like you got something better

to do, Mr. Williams? Cut me a break with

that Mr. Williams sh*t. Ok. Whatever the

f*** your name is. Billy. Billy? Yeah. Billy. You want to make

some money or not? Ok. What you want

from me, Max? You know what I want? I want you to do what

you f***ing promised. It's not that

f***ing complicated. You say you're going

to do something, you do it. It's not my fault. Whose fault is it?

Mine? No. And I bet you

won't tell her you won't take her

trick-or-treating. Maxine! Maxine what? I knew this sh*t

was going to happen. It's the same

f***ing sh*t that happened

last year. Look. I got business

to take care of. You're going to have to

take her this year. You know what? She doesn't

want me to take her. She wants her father

to take her. All right?

She's a little girl. Halloween

is important to her. I know that. Think I don't

know that? Why don't you

f***ing act like it? She's not going to

be little forever. Where you going? Where you going? Going to pick her up

from school. This is bullshit! Now just stop it,

all right? Max...You know

the game. I'll be back. I'll be back

as soon as I can. Just do what

you got to do. Come here.

Don't be scared. It'll be ok. You go get precious. Tell her

daddy's sorry. Will you do that

for me? Yeah. I'll do that

for you. I'll tell her

you're sorry. Maxine:

I don't know why I'm with your

sorry ass anyway. Tony, voice-over:

Wayward daughters for dollars and quarters would sell

their youthful selves, and in the morning

they awoke to find their hearts

near broke, crying themselves

to death. While junkies prowl

with a tiger's growl in search of their

much needed blow, and winos cringe

on their canned heat bins to find their graves

in the snow. Where belles of vice

sell love for a price and even the law

gets corrupt, man, you keep on trying. But nevertheless crime,

like gin--what a bitter cup. The jungle creed says, "the strongest feed

off of any prey at hand," and I was branded "beast"

at every feast, before I ever

became a man. [Bell rings] They're here. You sure? Yeah, I'm sure.

Positive? Absolutely.

Absolutely positive. Go upstairs.

Wait for my call. Man on TV:

Hey, all right! I'm here. You're here. We're all here together. Do you have any idea

what we're doing here? Hey, Michael. You know? All right! That's what

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Laurence Fishburne

Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor, playwright, producer, screenwriter, and film director. He is known for playing Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy, Jason "Furious" Styles in the 1991 drama film Boyz n the Hood and Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller in the 1979 war film Apocalypse Now. For his portrayal of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It, Fishburne was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Two Trains Running (1992), and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in TriBeCa (1993). Fishburne became the first African American to portray Othello in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. Fishburne starred in several cult classics, including Deep Cover and King of New York. From 2008 to 2011, he starred as Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and from 2013 to 2015 starred as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal. In 2013, he portrayed Perry White in the Zack Snyder-directed Superman reboot Man of Steel and in 2016 reprised his role in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Fishburne played Bill Foster/Goliath in the film Ant-Man and the Wasp, released in 2018 as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. more…

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