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Mood:
- RoughThought ProvokingTenseSuspenseful
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Plot:
- Parents and ChildrenMurderCrimesDeadlyLaw EnforcementLife is a BitchMind and SoulSociety more...
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Genres:
- CrimeDramaMysteryBlaxploitation
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Place:
- New YorkUrban
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Clockers, 1995
English
USA
Profile of Clockers
Clockers can be described as thought provoking, tense, and rough. The plot revolves around law enforcement, murder, and themes of life is a bitch. The main genres are drama, crime, and mystery. In terms of style, Clockers involves blaxpoitation. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in an urban environment. Clockers is located in New York. It takes place in the 1990s. It is based on a book. Clockers has received attention for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of Clockers
Director Spike Lee examines the violent world of urban drug dealing through the eyes of Strike (Mekhi Phifer), a 19-year-old "clocker," short for round-the-clock pusher. Strike agrees to kill a fellow employee of his boss Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo), an influential, popular drug lord. But when the hit goes down, it is Strike's moral, law-abiding brother Victor (Isaiah Washington) who confesses, shocking everyone. The detective assigned to the case, Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel), doesn't believe Victor--the more that Klein, along with others in Strike's life, start putting the heat on, the more the clocker finds himself up against the wall. The question is: Who is the real killer? A gritty, realistic adaptation of Richard Price's best-selling novel, Lee's film is also one of his most highly invigorating. Shooting with a gritty, washed-out film stock, with startling moments of saturated primary color, Clockers feels like a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the daily lives of a group of New York City drug dealers, featuring a star-making performance by Phifer.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 13 September 1995 |
| Runtime: | 128 min |
Cast and Crew
as Ronald 'Strike' Dunham
as Det. Rocco Klein
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Critics Reviews
Los Angeles Times
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- by: Kenneth Turan
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Edward Guthmann
