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Release Date: 1991

Cast: Russell Wong, Flavor Flav, Michael Michele, Vanessa A. Williams, Wesley Snipes, Chris Rock, Eek-a-Mouse, Mario Van Peebles, Bill Cobbs, Allen Payne, Anthony DeSando, Christopher Williams ...MORE

Cast: Russell Wong, Flavor Flav, Michael Michele, Vanessa A. Williams, Wesley Snipes, Chris Rock, Eek-a-Mouse, Mario Van Peebles, Bill Cobbs, Allen Payne, Anthony DeSando, Christopher Williams, Tracy Camilla Johns, Bill Nunn, Judd Nelson, Ice T ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Indie, Crime Drama, Crime, Drama Film, Crime Fiction, Action, Thriller, Gangster, Blaxploitation

New Jack City is a 1991 crime film starring Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson, and Chris Rock. Snipes stars as Nino Brown, a rising drug dealer and crime lord in New York City during the crack epidemic. Ice-T plays a detective who vows to stop Nino's criminal activity by going undercover to work for Nino's gang. New Jack City was a film that was based on the crack cocaine war in the USA. It was the first theatrically released film for director and co-star Mario Van Peebles. The film was based upon an original story and screenplay written by Thomas Lee Wright who had... MORE

New Jack City is a 1991 crime film starring Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson, and Chris Rock. Snipes stars as Nino Brown, a rising drug dealer and crime lord in New York City during the crack epidemic. Ice-T plays a detective who vows to stop Nino's criminal activity by going undercover to work for Nino's gang. New Jack City was a film that was based on the crack cocaine war in the USA. It was the first theatrically released film for director and co-star Mario Van Peebles. The film was based upon an original story and screenplay written by Thomas Lee Wright who had previously penned a draft of The Godfather Part III and would go on to write, direct and produce a seminal documentary of American gang life, Eight-Tray Gangster: The Making of a Crip. The screenplay was co-written by journalist-turned-screenwriter Barry Michael Cooper, who also scripted 1994's Above The Rim, and Sugar Hill, which also starred Snipes. Cooper is the first African-American screenwriter in history to have two films produced in one year: Sugar Hill was released on February 25, 1994 by Beacon-20th Century Fox Pictures, and Above The Rim was released on March 23, 1994 by New Line Cinema. LESS