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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 25, 1998
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Wesley Snipes, Judd Nelson, Ice-T & Mario Van Peebles | |
| Performer: | Chris Rock, Michael Michele, Tracy Camila Johns, Allen Payne, Bill Nunn, Bill Cobbs & Vanessa Williams | |
| Directed by | Mario Van Peebles | |
| Edited by | Steven Kemper | |
| Screenplay by | Thomas Lee Wright & Barry Michael Cooper | |
| Story by | Thomas Lee Wright | |
| Produced by | George Jackson & Doug McHenry | |
| Director of Photography: | Francis Kenny |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 7/10 --
...a purely conventional story, but it unfolds in unique and innovative ways, with particularly good turns from its cast, all of which make it a worthwhile watch.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 8/10 --
Whilst not as analytical about the debate on drugs like Soderbergh's Traffic, there is much to think about and take from a still-enjoyable movie.
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Starburst
Rating: 4/5 --
The film's use of once-imposing, now-crumbling New York architecture is particularly effective in underscoring the story with an air of widespread urban decay.
New York Times
Van Peebles wanted to tell this story; his heart is in it, and it's got a killer beat.
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Washington Post
It's a superior example of what used to be called blaxploitation, with Van Peebles piling on corruption and carnage for all he's worth.
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Time Out
Violent and very engaging.
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Empire Magazine
...[Van Peebles directs with] energy and flash....Played commandingly by [Snipes]...
New York Times
Product Description:
A violent, kinetic gangster film with a strong anti-drug message, NEW JACK CITY is set in the mid-1980s during the height of the crack epidemic. Two street-wise undercover cops (Judd Nelson, Mario Van Peebles) go after Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes), a ruthless drug lord with extravagant taste in home furnishings. Desperate to bring down his multi-million dollar cocaine empire, they send Pookie (Chris Rock), a former street hustler and rehabilitated crack addict, into Nino's drug factory as an undercover spy. When the plan misfires, the cops must face Nino and his henchman in a bloody showdown.
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- Sales Rank: 31,336
- UPC: 883929152674
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