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Bones
Over 20 years after his death, local legend and benefactor Jimmy Bones returns as a ghost to get revenge on those who killed him and restore his neighborhood.
2001 · Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson · 97 min · Horror · Thriller · Crime · Fantasy · Screenplay in the scene database · 6 frames
Tagline
This Dogg's got a bone to pick.
Plot
In 1979, Jimmy Bones is a numbers runner who is loved in his neighborhood as its member and protector. He is betrayed and brutally murdered by corrupt cop Lupovich and drug pusher Eddie Mack who then force Jimmy's associates Jeremiah and Shotgun to take turns stabbing him to death. His lover Pearl, who had been the only one to refuse, tries to kill herself instead but is stopped by Jimmy who proceeded to protect her. This results in Pearl taking her dress and burying him with it. Afterwards, Bones' elegant brownstone building becomes his own tomb and is closed.
Twenty-two years later, the neighborhood has become rundown because Bones' absence cleared the way for drugs to enter the neighborhood. Four teens, Patrick, his brother Bill, their step-sister Tia and their best friend Maurice, buy the Bones house to turn it into a nightclub. In the process, Tia finds a black dog who is actually the physical manifestation of Jimmy's spirit. As the dog kills and eats meat and victims, Jimmy is slowly resurrected.
Patrick meets Pearl, who remains in the neighborhood, and her daughter Cynthia, whom he immediately is attracted to. Exploring the basement, Patrick, Cynthia, Bill, Tia, and Maurice find Jimmy Bones' remains and realize he was actually murdered. The five decide to keep quiet about the murder and bury the remains. Jeremiah, father to Patrick and Bill and Tia's stepfather, finds out about their plan to open the club at Bones' old building. He freaks out and demands that Patrick and the others leave the building. Patrick, Bill, and Tia refuse his request and open the nightclub, in spite of their father's objections. On opening night, Maurice is lured into an upstairs room and mauled to death by the black dog, fully resurrecting Jimmy.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Tim Metcalfe, Adam Simon
- Cinematography: Flavio Martínez Labiano
- Edited by: Michael N. Knue, Stephen Lovejoy
- Music: Elia Cmiral
- Production design: Douglas Higgins
- Produced by: Peter Heller, Rupert Harvey, Lloyd Segan
Cast
- Snoop Dogg as Jimmy Bones
- Pam Grier as Pearl
- Michael T. Weiss as Al Lupovich
- Clifton Powell as Jeremiah Peet
- Ricky Harris as Eddie Mack
- Bianca Lawson as Cynthia
- Khalil Kain as Patrick
- Merwin Mondesir as Bill
- Sean Amsing as Maurice
- Katharine Isabelle as Tia
Production
- Country: United States of America, Canada
- Language: English
- Studios: New Line Cinema, The Lloyd Segan Company, Heller Highwater Productions
- Budget: $10,000,000
- Box office: $7,316,658
- Themes: drug dealer, dying and death, skeleton, crack
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