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Cradle 2 the Grave
Gang leader Tony pulls off a major diamond heist with his crew, but cop-turned-criminal Ling knows who has the loot and responds by kidnapping Tony's daughter and holding her for ransom. Unfortunately, Tony's lost the diamonds as well. As he frantically searches for his daughter and the jewels, Tony pairs with a high-kicking government agent who once worked with Ling and seeks revenge on him.
2003 · Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak · 101 min · Action · Crime · Drama · Screenplay in the scene database · 13 frames
Tagline
Born 2 the life. True 2 the code. Bad 2 the bone.
Plot
Anthony Fait and his crew (Daria, Tommy, and Miles) of thieves attempt to steal diamonds for a Frenchman named Christophe, who serves as the middleman for a mysterious employer. When Fait contacts Christophe, a Taiwanese intelligence agent named Su intercepts the conversation and attempts to identify the criminals.
While the crew gathers up as many diamonds as they can, including a bag of black diamonds, Agent Su calls Fait and demands that he and his crew leave the diamonds in the vault, warning him that the police are on the way. However, Fait ignores this warning, and the criminals attempt a daring escape past a SWAT team blockade. While Fait and his crew all manage to escape, Agent Su fights Miles and recovers Miles' share of the diamonds. Su is disappointed to find that Miles does not have the black diamonds though. Meanwhile, Fait asks his friend Archie to appraise the black diamonds he had stolen. Arriving at the San Francisco International Airport, Christophe's mysterious employer, Ling, is informed by his assistant Sona, that Christophe has been attacked and that Fait and his gang have taken the black diamonds.
Later that night, Fait runs into Su. During this inadvertent meeting, Fait receives a phone call from Ling, who demands that Fait hand over the black diamonds. Fait refuses and is subsequently attacked by two of Ling's henchman. With Su's help, he defeats them and escapes. After the fight, Archie tells Fait that some gangsters came to his workshop and demanded the black diamonds as well. After some hesitation, Archie admits that he gave the stones to the gangsters to spare his own life. Fait also receives another call from Ling, who has kidnapped Fait's daughter, Vanessa, to persuade Fait to give up the diamonds. Now with a common enemy, Fait and Su team up to recover the diamonds from the gangsters and rescue Vanessa from Ling.
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Crew
- Screenplay: John O'Brien, Channing Gibson
- Cinematography: Daryn Okada
- Edited by: Derek Brechin
- Music: Damon 'Grease' Blackman, John Frizzell
- Production design: David F. Klassen
- Produced by: Joel Silver
Cast
- Jet Li as Su
- DMX as Anthony Fait
- Gabrielle Union as Daria
- Anthony Anderson as Tommy
- Tom Arnold as Archie
- Paige Hurd as Vanessa
- Mark Dacascos as Yao Ling
- Kelly Hu as Sona
- Sean Cory as Willy Chickens
- Michael Jace as Odion
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Russian, English, Korean
- Studios: Silver Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: $25,000,000
- Box office: $56,500,000
- Themes: robbery, diamond, intelligence, bank robber, thief, bank robbery, financial transactions, hoodlum
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