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| Sean Nelson | ... | ||
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Ron Brice | ... | |
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Jean-Claude La Marre | ... |
Jake
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| José Zúñiga | ... | ||
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Luis Lantigua | ... | |
| Yul Vazquez | ... | ||
| Cheryl Freeman | ... |
Aunt Frances
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Anthony Thomas | ... | |
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Curtis McClarin | ... |
Darryl
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| Charles Malik Whitfield | ... |
Smokey
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Víctor González | ... | |
| Guillermo Díaz | ... |
Spike
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Fresh (Sean Nelson) is a 12-year-old drug dealer who finds himself trapped in a web of poverty, corruption and racial tension in Brooklyn, New York. When his drug-addict sister Nichole (N'Bushe Wright) starts sleeping with local drug lord Esteban (Giancarlo Esposito), Fresh calls upon the skills he learned playing chess with his alcoholic father and speed-chess champion Sam (Samuel L. Jackson) and devises a complex strategy that will free both himself and his sister. Written by heem857
Many comments confirm the strength of this movie in simple manipulation of an camera eye. Well, that's true. You will not find any fancy FXs here. But, does it make the picture less spectacular? Of course not. Script is brilliant. Whole plot resembles well played chess game telling the story about violence and losing innocence. This is not only a game in an explicit chess meaning. Main characters , wonderfully played by S. L. Jackson and Sean Nelson, are playing chess with themselves, struggling with their lives. There is another aspect of chess game that accompanies the plot till the end. Throughout duration of the movie chess puzzle gets clear. We can finally see where 'Fresh' is heading to and what he wants to achieve through his plan. Anyway, Boaz Yakin made one of the best movies of 94' , really worth seeing.
Mariusz Pelka