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Rosemary's Baby
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“They're a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime.”
New Jack City (1991)
March 8, 19911h 41mEN
6.7
589 votes
Overview
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.
Director
Mario Van PeeblesWhere to Watch
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$8.5M
Revenue
$47.6M
Production Companies
Jacmac FilmsJackson-McHenry EntertainmentWarner Bros. Pictures
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6.0New Jack City is convoluted, contrived, and heavy-handed, ending with a caption warning us to “confront the [drug] problem realistically, without empty slogans and promises”. Well, the characters in the movie certainly eschew empty slogans in favor of some of the most memorable catchphrases ever committed to film (“Sit your five-dollar ass down before I make change,” “I want to shoot you so bad, my d*ck's hard,” etc., etc.), but it might be a bit of a stretch to say that they deal with the problem realistically – and it’s actually the little things, such as our old friend the Red Digital Reado…
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