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New Jack City
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
1991 · Directed by Mario Van Peebles · 101 min · Thriller · Crime · Drama · 10 frames
Tagline
They're a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime.
Crew
- Screenplay: Thomas Lee Wright, Barry Michael Cooper
- Cinematography: Francis Kenny
- Edited by: Steven Kemper
- Music: Michel Colombier
- Production design: Charles C. Bennett
- Produced by: Doug McHenry, George Jackson
Cast
- Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown
- Ice-T as Scotty Appleton
- Allen Payne as Garald "Gee Money" Welles
- Chris Rock as Pookie
- Mario Van Peebles as Stone
- Michael Michele as Selina
- Bill Nunn as Duh Duh Duh Man
- Russell Wong as Park
- Bill Cobbs as Old Man
- Christopher Williams as Kareem Akbar
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Jacmac Films, Jackson-McHenry Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: $8,500,000
- Box office: $47,624,253
- Themes: drug dealer, new york city, street gang, undercover agent, heroin, ghetto, gang leader, cop, crack, drugs
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