New Jack City

Crack cocaine is destroying New York and an NYPD detective goes undercover to bring down a notorious Harlem drug lord.

  • Director

    Mario Van Peebles

  • With

    Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne

  • USA 1991. 100min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    18

Wesley Snipes is on electric form as powerful drug lord Nino Brown, who heads a gang that controls Harlem’s crack supply. Van Peebles’ incendiary film, in which he also stars, taps into the hip-hop scene of the time, eliciting a fine performance from rapper Ice-T as one of the NYPD detectives hell-bent on bringing Brown down. There are also cameos by Jamaican ‘singjay’ artist Eek-A-Mouse and Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav.

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