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Overview
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Writer (WGA):
Boaz Yakin (written by)
Release Date:
24 August 1994 (USA) more
Tagline:
In a world where criminals make the rules an innocent boy is out to beat them at their own game. more
Plot:
Michael (or Fresh as he's well known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt... more | add synopsis
Awards:
4 wins & 3 nominations more
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(23 articles)
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User Comments:
Best of its genre more (52 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sean Nelson | ... | Fresh |
 | Giancarlo Esposito | ... | Esteban |
 | Samuel L. Jackson | ... | Sam |
| N'Bushe Wright | ... | Nichole |
| Ron Brice | ... | Corky |
| Jean-Claude La Marre | ... | Jake (as Jean LaMarre) |
 | José Zúñiga | ... | Lt. Perez |
| Luis Lantigua | ... | Chuckie |
 | Yul Vazquez | ... | Chillie |
| Cheryl Freeman | ... | Aunt Frances |
| Anthony Thomas | ... | Red |
| Curtis McClarin | ... | Darryl (as Curtis L. McClarin) |
 | Charles Malik Whitfield | ... | Smokey |
| Víctor González | ... | Herbie |
| Guillermo Díaz | ... | Spike |
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114 min
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Certification:
Iceland:16 | USA:R (certificate #32866) | Singapore:M18 | France:-12 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Netherlands:16 | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | Finland:K-15 | Australia:MA | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18
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Miscellaneous: In the scene with Fresh and his father playing chess, right before Fresh cries, the Queen and King are set up incorrectly (interchanged) on the board. It occurs in only one shot and is all right in all the other shots. more
Quotes:
[Chillie counting packs of drugs, Fresh is in a hurry]
Fresh:
I gotta get to school, Chillie, I'm stupid late. It's gonna be my second late day this week. Miss Coleman is gonna kill me.
Chillie:
Don't worry, I'll write you a doctor's note.
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Referenced in Dirty Pretty Things (2002) more
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Ah-Vah more
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I watched 'Fresh' again recently, with several other examples of
its genre (urban crime drama, or words to that effect). It
stands out head and shoulders above the rest as an engaging and
intelligent film. Part of 'Fresh's strength is that it belies
many of the genre's expected conventions. Rap music is vaguely
incidental, giving way to a poignant soundtrack by Stewart
Copeland. For once, gang life, alcoholism, and drug addiction
are never glamourized as they are simultaneously condemned...
the fault of so many films which purport to be morally aware of
the destructive nature of these things (but seem to say,
backhandedly, "isn't T-Bone a badd mutha, though?") And as
another reviewer noted, the central character as an intellectual
prodigy is neither a joke nor a gimmick, his mind is the means
of his survival and eventually his triumph over the forces
around him. The cast is excellent, the standouts being an
extraordinary debut by Sean Nelson as the Fresh and the reliable
Samuel L. Jackson as his alcoholic speed-chess-master father.
The final scene is one of the most devastating and memorable
scenes in the last decade of films. The sincerity and unpredictability of 'Fresh' are unparalleled in films of its
type.