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Gang Related

The Cast: James Belushi - TuPac Shakur - Lela Rochon - Dennis Quaid - James Earl Jones - David Paymer

Diretor: Jim Kouf

Release Date: September 23, 1997

Box Office Sales: $20.15 Million

Categories: Crime

Rated: R

Running Time: 106 Minutes

Available On: VHS & DVD

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A pair of corrupt police officers discover the hard way that crime really doesn't pay in this action drama. Davinci (James Belushi) and Rodriguez (Tupac Shakur) are two New York undercover cops with serious money problems; Rodriguez owes a huge gambling debt, while Davinci wants to retire to Hawaii but lacks the cash. To stretch their paychecks, the partners pose as drug dealers, using narcotics confiscated as evidence; they sell the dope, and after receiving payment, they kill the buyers in carefully arranged drive-by shootings, always collecting the drugs afterward so that they can be sold again. The men try to morally justify their actions by claiming that they only kill people who need to be taken off the street anyway. Davinci's girlfriend, an exotic dancer named Cynthia (Lela Rochon), helps set the cops up with their latest victim, but after they've made the transaction, Davinci and Rodriguez discover the tables have been turned -- the purchaser is actually an undercover D.E.A. agent. The D.E.A. man winds up dead, and Davinci and Rodriguez are assigned to investigate the killing. Needing a fall guy, they try to frame a homeless man for the murder, but before long, their web of deception begins to collapse like a house of cards. Gang Related was the final film completed by rapper-turned-actor Tupac Shakur; he himself was the victim of a still-unsolved shooting in Las Vegas 13 months before the film was released.

GRIDLOCK'd

The Cast: Tim Roth - TuPac Shakur - Thandie Newton - Charles Fleischer - Howard Hesseman

Director: Vondie Curtis Hall

Release Date: January 29th, 1997

Categories: Comedy/Drama

Rated: R

Running Time: 91 Minutes

Available On: VHS & DVD

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In this hard-edged drama with a strong undercurrent of dark comedy, Stretch (Tim Roth) and Spoon (Tupac Shakur) are two friends who share both a passion for music and a dependence on heroin. Stretch and Spoon play in a jazz combo with Cookie (Thandie Newton), and after a New Year's Eve gig, they score drugs and get high together. Cookie lacks her friends' experience with hard drugs and soon ends up in the hospital after a severe overdose. Cookie's brush with death turns out to be a serious reality check for Stretch and Spoon, and they decide that it's time to kick drugs and get clean and sober. But both men know that they can't get off heroin on their own, and therein lies the problem; as they try to navigate a complex maze of social service agencies (who can't help them get treatment because they aren't on welfare), drug treatment facilities (one of which turns them away because they're only equipped to handle alcoholics), and hospitals (where, in order to be admitted as emergency patients, Stretch and Spoon ponder how to go about stabbing each other) in search of a detox program. The two friends begin to wonder if it might simply be easier to stay on drugs than to get healthy. Gridlock'd marked the feature film directorial debut for actor Vondie Curtis Hall, best known for his work on the TV series Chicago Hope; Elizabeth Pena and John Sayles both appear in supporting roles. Rap musician-turned actor Tupac Shakur, who played Spoon, died in a drive-by shooting four months prior to the release of this film.

Bullet

The Cast: Mickey Rourke - TuPac Shakur - Ted Levine - Adrien Brody - John Enos - Suzanne Shepherd

Director: Julien Temple

Release Date: January 8th, 2002

Categories: Crime

Rated: R

Running Time: 93 Minutes

Available On: VHS Rent Only & Spanish Subtitled

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Seven years after his comedy Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), former music video director Julien Temple returned to feature films with the direct-to-video crime melodrama Bullet (1995), which featured a fine supporting cast. Mickey Rourke stars as Butch "Bullet" Stein, a Jewish junkie from the mean streets of Brooklyn who is paroled after eight years in prison. Butch rips off a runner for local drug dealer, Tank (Tupac Shakur), and is soon right back into his old habits of snorting coke and shooting up heroin with his best friend Lester (John Enos III). Enraged by Butch's affront and already determined to get revenge on him for a past wrong, Tank sets about getting even with his old enemy by hiring a hulking brute, Gates (Ray Mancini) to beat Butch. When the confrontation occurs, however, Gates breaks his hand on the battle-hardened Butch. Besides Lester, the only people in Butch's corner are his two brothers, the mentally-unhinged Vietnam War veteran Louis (Ted Levine) and aspiring artist Ruby (Adrien Brody), neither of whom can be counted on to help him in the inevitable showdown.

Above The Rim

The Cast: Duane Martin - Leon - TuPac Shakur - David Bailey - Tonya Pinkins - Marlon Wayans

Director: Jeff Polack

Release Date: March 24th, 1994

Box Office Sales: $16.9 Million

Categories: Drama

Rated: R

Running Time: 93 Minutes

Available On: VHS Only

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A young aspiring professional basketball player must make some tough decisions in this sports melodrama. Kyle-Lee is a talented basketball player in high school. While he waits to find out if he will receive a scholarship to Georgetown he finds himself in a difficult dilemma over a playground basketball tournament. He must decide whether to follow his good-hearted coach or Birdie, the local gangster. Kyle is also feeling resentment for the security guard his mother is falling for. The coach also wants the guard to play, but due to the tragic death of a friend, the guard cannot bear the thought of playing again.

Poetic Justice

The Cast: Janet Jackson - TuPac Shakur - Regina King - Joe Torry - Tyra Ferrell - Roger Guenver Smith

Director: John Singleton

Release Date: June 23rd, 1993

Box Office Sales: $27.5 Million

Categories: Drama

Rated: R

Running Time: 110 Minutes

Available On: VHS & DVD

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R&B star Janet Jackson made an impressive film debut in Poetic Justice as Justice, a hairdresser at a small salon in South Central Los Angeles. Justice uses her poetry to deal with her grief after her boyfriend is killed in a shooting incident at a drive-in. Hired to work at a hair stylists' event in Oakland, Justice is stranded when her car breaks down, until she remembers that her friend Ieasha (Regina King) was going to hop a ride down to Oakland with her boyfriend Chicago (Joe Torry), a postal worker who is heading there with a truck full of mail. Justice tags along to discover that Chicago's driving partner is Lucky (Tupac Shakur), the postman who delivers mail to her shop and keeps asking her out. Ieasha and Chicago have to deal with their own rocky relationship while Justice has to decide if she's ready for a new love -- and if Lucky is the man she's waiting for. Along with strong work from Jackson, Poetic Justice features a surprising turn from Shakur, whose nuanced performance as Lucky is in strong contrast to his "Thug Life" public persona. Justice's poems were written by Maya Angelou, who also appears in a small role.

Juice

The Cast: Omar Epps - TuPac Shakur - Jermaine Hopkins - Khalil Kain - Cindy Herron - Vincent Laresca

Director: Ernest R. Dickerson

Release Date: January 17th, 1992

Box Office Sales: $20.15 Million

Categories: Drama/Crime

Rated: R

Running Time: 95 Minutes

Available On: VHS & DVD

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Cinematographer Ernest R. Dickerson directed and co-wrote this crime drama about a group of friends who get involved in a robbery. Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Q (Omar Epps), Raheem (Khalil Kain), and Steel (Jermaine Hopkins) are four Harlem friends who spend their days skipping school, getting in fights, and casually shoplifting. The only member of the group who has plans for the future is Q, who dreams of becoming a deejay. But one day Bishop happens to see James Cagney in White Heat and the film inspires him to buy a gun. His plan is to rob a corner store and split the money. Everyone goes along with the plan except for Q, who is competing that night in a deejay contest. At the club, Q is a rousing success, but he spies the stern faces of his friends through the cheering crowd and realizes that he has to go along with the robbery, which goes completely wrong.


	Thug On A Mission \| home Ya Heard Lately?[NEWS] \| TimeLine! [Bio] \| Did Ya Know? \| Filmography! \| Factz! \| Discography! \| Alive Theories! \| Bullet: 2Pac's Script! \| Blade Runner Conspiracy! \| 2Pac Bookz! \| Las Vegas Mapz! \| Tha Outlawz! \| 2Pac's House! \| Tha Row Records! \| Pollz! \| Da Guestbook! \| 2Pac's Autograph! \| Da Biterz! \| Related Links! \| Da Beefz! \| The Notorious B.I.G's Alive Theories! \| Picturez! \| Autopsy Picturez! \| N.Y Shooting! \| Las Vegas Shooting! \| Videoz! \| Close Friends! \| Latest Release InFoz! \| Contact Me! Filmography! Gang Related The Cast: James Belushi - TuPac Shakur - Lela Rochon - Dennis Quaid - James Earl Jones - David Paymer Diretor: Jim Kouf Release Date: September 23, 1997 Box Office Sales: $20.15 Million Categories: Crime Rated: R Running Time: 106 Minutes Available On: VHS & DVD Buy This Movie Synopsis: A pair of corrupt police officers discover the hard way that crime really doesn't pay in this action drama. Davinci (James Belushi) and Rodriguez (Tupac Shakur) are two New York undercover cops with serious money problems; Rodriguez owes a huge gambling debt, while Davinci wants to retire to Hawaii but lacks the cash. To stretch their paychecks, the partners pose as drug dealers, using narcotics confiscated as evidence; they sell the dope, and after receiving payment, they kill the buyers in carefully arranged drive-by shootings, always collecting the drugs afterward so that they can be sold again. The men try to morally justify their actions by claiming that they only kill people who need to be taken off the street anyway. Davinci's girlfriend, an exotic dancer named Cynthia (Lela Rochon), helps set the cops up with their latest victim, but after they've made the transaction, Davinci and Rodriguez discover the tables have been turned -- the purchaser is actually an undercover D.E.A. agent. The D.E.A. man winds up dead, and Davinci and Rodriguez are assigned to investigate the killing. Needing a fall guy, they try to frame a homeless man for the murder, but before long, their web of deception begins to collapse like a house of cards. Gang Related was the final film completed by rapper-turned-actor Tupac Shakur; he himself was the victim of a still-unsolved shooting in Las Vegas 13 months before the film was released. GRIDLOCK'd The Cast: Tim Roth - TuPac Shakur - Thandie Newton - Charles Fleischer - Howard Hesseman Director: Vondie Curtis Hall Release Date: January 29th, 1997 Categories: Comedy/Drama Rated: R Running Time: 91 Minutes Available On: VHS & DVD Buy This Video Synopsis: In this hard-edged drama with a strong undercurrent of dark comedy, Stretch (Tim Roth) and Spoon (Tupac Shakur) are two friends who share both a passion for music and a dependence on heroin. Stretch and Spoon play in a jazz combo with Cookie (Thandie Newton), and after a New Year's Eve gig, they score drugs and get high together. Cookie lacks her friends' experience with hard drugs and soon ends up in the hospital after a severe overdose. Cookie's brush with death turns out to be a serious reality check for Stretch and Spoon, and they decide that it's time to kick drugs and get clean and sober. But both men know that they can't get off heroin on their own, and therein lies the problem; as they try to navigate a complex maze of social service agencies (who can't help them get treatment because they aren't on welfare), drug treatment facilities (one of which turns them away because they're only equipped to handle alcoholics), and hospitals (where, in order to be admitted as emergency patients, Stretch and Spoon ponder how to go about stabbing each other) in search of a detox program. The two friends begin to wonder if it might simply be easier to stay on drugs than to get healthy. Gridlock'd marked the feature film directorial debut for actor Vondie Curtis Hall, best known for his work on the TV series Chicago Hope; Elizabeth Pena and John Sayles both appear in supporting roles. Rap musician-turned actor Tupac Shakur, who played Spoon, died in a drive-by shooting four months prior to the release of this film. Bullet The Cast: Mickey Rourke - TuPac Shakur - Ted Levine - Adrien Brody - John Enos - Suzanne Shepherd Director: Julien Temple Release Date: January 8th, 2002 Categories: Crime Rated: R Running Time: 93 Minutes Available On: VHS Rent Only & Spanish Subtitled Buy This Video Synopsis: Seven years after his comedy Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), former music video director Julien Temple returned to feature films with the direct-to-video crime melodrama Bullet (1995), which featured a fine supporting cast. Mickey Rourke stars as Butch "Bullet" Stein, a Jewish junkie from the mean streets of Brooklyn who is paroled after eight years in prison. Butch rips off a runner for local drug dealer, Tank (Tupac Shakur), and is soon right back into his old habits of snorting coke and shooting up heroin with his best friend Lester (John Enos III). Enraged by Butch's affront and already determined to get revenge on him for a past wrong, Tank sets about getting even with his old enemy by hiring a hulking brute, Gates (Ray Mancini) to beat Butch. When the confrontation occurs, however, Gates breaks his hand on the battle-hardened Butch. Besides Lester, the only people in Butch's corner are his two brothers, the mentally-unhinged Vietnam War veteran Louis (Ted Levine) and aspiring artist Ruby (Adrien Brody), neither of whom can be counted on to help him in the inevitable showdown. Above The Rim The Cast: Duane Martin - Leon - TuPac Shakur - David Bailey - Tonya Pinkins - Marlon Wayans Director: Jeff Polack Release Date: March 24th, 1994 Box Office Sales: $16.9 Million Categories: Drama Rated: R Running Time: 93 Minutes Available On: VHS Only Buy This Video Synopsis: A young aspiring professional basketball player must make some tough decisions in this sports melodrama. Kyle-Lee is a talented basketball player in high school. While he waits to find out if he will receive a scholarship to Georgetown he finds himself in a difficult dilemma over a playground basketball tournament. He must decide whether to follow his good-hearted coach or Birdie, the local gangster. Kyle is also feeling resentment for the security guard his mother is falling for. The coach also wants the guard to play, but due to the tragic death of a friend, the guard cannot bear the thought of playing again. Poetic Justice The Cast: Janet Jackson - TuPac Shakur - Regina King - Joe Torry - Tyra Ferrell - Roger Guenver Smith Director: John Singleton Release Date: June 23rd, 1993 Box Office Sales: $27.5 Million Categories: Drama Rated: R Running Time: 110 Minutes Available On: VHS & DVD Buy This Video Synopsis: R&B star Janet Jackson made an impressive film debut in Poetic Justice as Justice, a hairdresser at a small salon in South Central Los Angeles. Justice uses her poetry to deal with her grief after her boyfriend is killed in a shooting incident at a drive-in. Hired to work at a hair stylists' event in Oakland, Justice is stranded when her car breaks down, until she remembers that her friend Ieasha (Regina King) was going to hop a ride down to Oakland with her boyfriend Chicago (Joe Torry), a postal worker who is heading there with a truck full of mail. Justice tags along to discover that Chicago's driving partner is Lucky (Tupac Shakur), the postman who delivers mail to her shop and keeps asking her out. Ieasha and Chicago have to deal with their own rocky relationship while Justice has to decide if she's ready for a new love -- and if Lucky is the man she's waiting for. Along with strong work from Jackson, Poetic Justice features a surprising turn from Shakur, whose nuanced performance as Lucky is in strong contrast to his "Thug Life" public persona. Justice's poems were written by Maya Angelou, who also appears in a small role. Juice The Cast: Omar Epps - TuPac Shakur - Jermaine Hopkins - Khalil Kain - Cindy Herron - Vincent Laresca Director: Ernest R. Dickerson Release Date: January 17th, 1992 Box Office Sales: $20.15 Million Categories: Drama/Crime Rated: R Running Time: 95 Minutes Available On: VHS & DVD Buy This Video Synopsis: Cinematographer Ernest R. Dickerson directed and co-wrote this crime drama about a group of friends who get involved in a robbery. Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Q (Omar Epps), Raheem (Khalil Kain), and Steel (Jermaine Hopkins) are four Harlem friends who spend their days skipping school, getting in fights, and casually shoplifting. The only member of the group who has plans for the future is Q, who dreams of becoming a deejay. But one day Bishop happens to see James Cagney in White Heat and the film inspires him to buy a gun. His plan is to rob a corner store and split the money. Everyone goes along with the plan except for Q, who is competing that night in a deejay contest. At the club, Q is a rousing success, but he spies the stern faces of his friends through the cheering crowd and realizes that he has to go along with the robbery, which goes completely wrong.