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 Gang Related (Criminal Intent)Release Date: Fall 1997 Director: Jim Kouf Writer: Jim Kouf Studio: Orion Pictures Cast: James Belushi, Tupac Shakur (Rodriguez), Lela Rochon, Dennis Quaid Summary: A pair of world-weary vice cops spend their off-hours selling off their confiscated drugs and murdering their buyers, cleaning the streets and padding their own pockets simultaneously. But their plan falls flat when a victim turns out to have been an undercover DEA agent, and the two are unable to use their customary excuse--that the shootings are gang-related--to prevent an internal investigation. Bolstered by a gangsta rap soundtrack featuring its late star, Shakur.  Gridlock'dRelease Date: January 29, 1997 Director: Vondie Curtis Hall Writer: Vondie Curtis Hall Studio: Gramercy Pictures Musical Score: Stewart Copeland Length: 91m Rating: R Cast: Tim Roth, Tupac Shakur (Spoon), Thandie Newton Summary: When the lone woman in their three-character performance art piece OD's and winds up in a coma, a mismatched pair of Detroit junkies strive to seek help in kicking their heroin habit in government-sponsored programs, only to find themselves drowning in the comical--and sadly accurate--bureaucratic morass of sanctioned detox centers. An authentic, scathingly satiric black comedy debut from actor-turned-writer/director Vondie Curtis Hall, featuring the final big screen performance of murdered rapper Tupac Shakur.  BulletRelease Date: January 21, 1997 Director, Julien Temple Writers: Bruce Rubenstein and Sir Eddie Cook Studio: New Line Home Video Available on: New Line Home Video Length: 96m Cast: Mickey Rourke, Tupac Shakur (Tank), Ted Levine, Adrien Brody Summary: In this gangland action thriller, a pair of urban underworld thugs struggle to come to terms with both their intense, violent rivalry and their grudging respect for one another.  Above The RimRelease date: March 23, 1994 Director: Jeff Pollack Writer: Jeff Pollack Musical Score: Marcus Miller Studio: New Line Cinema Available on: New Line Home Video Length: 97m Rating R Box office sales: $16.9 million Cast: Duane Martin, Tupac Shakur (Birdie), Leon, Marlon Wayans, Tonya Pinkins, Bernie Mac Summary: Inner city basketball players give it everything they've got in a local tournament to get out of the 'hood.'  Poetic JusticeRelease date: July 23, 1993 Director: John Singleton Writer: John Singleton Musical Score: Stanley Clarke Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Companies Available on: Columbia Tristar Home Video and Baker & Taylor Home Video Length: 109m Rating: R Box office sales: $27.5 million Cast: Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur (Lucky), Tyra Ferrell, Regina King, Joe Torry, Maya Angelou, Tone Loc, Q-Tip, Keith Washington Summary: Janet Jackson makes her film debut in this hard-hitting urban romance. The story of two L.A. natives who find love outside the violence of city life. Academy Award Nominations: Best Song ("Again").  JuiceRelease Date: January 17, 1992 Director: Ernest R. Dickerson Writers: Gerard Brown and Ernest R. Dickerson Musical Score: Bomb Squad Available on: Paramount Home Video Length: 95m Rating: R Box Office Sales: $20.15 million Cast: Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur (Bishop), Jermaine Hopkins, Khalil Kain, Cindy Herron, Vincent Laresca, Samuel L. Jackson Summary: Best friends Q, Bishop, Raheem, and Stell live in a world where fun and danger exist side-by-side, and violence is powerfully seductive. These four Harlem friends take on the neighborhood - and each other - to get the power and respect they call Juice. |