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Clockers

  • 19951995
  • RR
  • 2h 8m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
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Clockers (1995)
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Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
22K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
10,430
433
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • Spike Lee
    • Writers
      • Richard Price(book "Clockers")
      • Spike Lee(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Harvey Keitel
      • John Turturro
      • Delroy Lindo
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Spike Lee
    • Writers
      • Richard Price(book "Clockers")
      • Spike Lee(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Harvey Keitel
      • John Turturro
      • Delroy Lindo
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 95User reviews
    • 56Critic reviews
    • 71Metascore
    • Awards
      • 6 nominations

    Videos1

    Clockers
    Trailer 2:18
    Clockers

    Photos109

    Mekhi Phifer and Delroy Lindo in Clockers (1995)
    Spike Lee and Mekhi Phifer in Clockers (1995)
    Mekhi Phifer and Keith David in Clockers (1995)
    Spike Lee in Clockers (1995)
    Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee in Clockers (1995)
    Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, and Delroy Lindo in Clockers (1995)
    Peewee Love and Regina Taylor in Clockers (1995)
    Mekhi Phifer in Clockers (1995)
    Harvey Keitel, Mekhi Phifer, and John Turturro in Clockers (1995)
    Mekhi Phifer and Isaiah Washington in Clockers (1995)
    John Turturro in Clockers (1995)
    Delroy Lindo in Clockers (1995)

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    Harvey Keitel
    Harvey Keitel
    • Rocco Klein
    John Turturro
    John Turturro
    • Larry Mazilli
    Delroy Lindo
    Delroy Lindo
    • Rodney
    Mekhi Phifer
    Mekhi Phifer
    • Strike
    Isaiah Washington
    Isaiah Washington
    • Victor
    Keith David
    Keith David
    • Andre the Giant
    Peewee Love
    • Tyrone
    • (as Pee Wee Love)
    Regina Taylor
    Regina Taylor
    • Iris Jeeter
    Thomas Jefferson Byrd
    Thomas Jefferson Byrd
    • Errol Barnes
    • (as Tom Byrd)
    Sticky Fingaz
    Sticky Fingaz
    • Scientific
    Fredro Starr
    Fredro Starr
    • Go
    • (as Fredro)
    Elvis Nolasco
    Elvis Nolasco
    • Horace
    • (as E.O. Nolasco)
    Lawrence B. Adisa
    Lawrence B. Adisa
    • Stan
    Hassan Johnson
    Hassan Johnson
    • Skills
    Frances Foster
    • Gloria
    Michael Imperioli
    Michael Imperioli
    • Jo-Jo
    Lisa Arrindell
    Lisa Arrindell
    • Sharon
    • (as Lisa Arrindell Anderson)
    Paul Calderon
    Paul Calderon
    • Jesus at Hambones
    • Director
      • Spike Lee
    • Writers
      • Richard Price(book "Clockers") (screenplay)
      • Spike Lee(screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Was originally supposed to be directed by Martin Scorsese. Rocco Klein would have been the main character, played by Robert De Niro. Scorsese changed his mind, opting instead to direct Casino (1995), and De Niro went with him. Scorsese then asked Spike Lee if he wanted to direct. Lee accepted (and decided that Strike, not Rocco, would be the primary character), and Scorsese was given an "Executive Producer" credit.
    • Goofs
      While cutting his hair, Rodney asks a young man how many pairs of feet he has. The man answers: "Two, like everybody else". Two pairs makes four feet.
    • Quotes

      Rodney: If God created anything better than crack cocaine, he kept that shit for hisself. I mean, that shit is like truth serum. It will truly expose who you are. I mean, you happen to be a low-life rat bastard motherfucker, who will sell off his newborn for a suck off that glass dick, crack will bring it right on in the light. Now, I don't care you black, white, Chinese, rich, poor. You take that first hit, you on a mission. And that mission will never end. Even when the house, the money, loved ones are gone, they send you to the joint, you still gonna try to cop.

      Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: No doubt.

      Rodney: Only time it ends, Strike, that mission, when you six feet under.

    • Connections
      Featured in Crooklyn Dodgers: Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers (1995)
    • Soundtracks
      People in Search of a Life
      Written by Raymond Jones

      Performed by Marc Dorsey

    User reviews95

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    Smart and entertaining with lots going on emotionally and subjectively.
    I tend to enjoy films like Clockers; films that open up ideas about several things at once; films that make you think about the world in which they're set, the people in which inhabit them and the choices they must face – some of which are unfortunate through being mandatory. Spike Lee is no fool and a lot of his early work on recent viewings seem to revolve around someone stuck in a situation that is a mere result of their emotional drive and the world they are living in: She's Gotta Have it; Jungle Fever and Clockers are good examples of protagonists committing an action they really shouldn't have (and probably didn't want to but buckled under either temptation or peer pressure) and now must face the consequences. But these consequences will affect more than merely the hero.

    Lee does not hang around in presenting or perhaps delivering his subject matter as a whole. The thing that amazes me with Lee is that he can write so many different types of characters: low grade African-Americans, educated and seemingly decent African-Americans; white cops; women of different ethnicity and a few others. In Clockers, the opening scene which integrates with the credits is of a somewhat crude and humiliating public autopsy during which a couple of white cops examine a dead black man in front of a watching black crowd. Two of these detectives are Rocco Klein (Keitel) and Larry Mazilli (Turturro) but the scene acts as one final act of humiliation to an already dead black man as they search his carcase for clues and bullet holes.

    But the film has more than one current flowing throughout it. Strike (Phifer) plays a neighbourhood African-American who speaks and acts just like all his drug dealing friends, even hanging with them when they act out their drug selling routine to customers in a staged manner. But Strike is different and Lee wants us to create an alternate profile of the man by giving him milkshakes to drinks and trains to collect, set up in his apartment, maintain and run. The others laugh at this hobby but Strike maintains most of them too have hobbies: collecting welfare cheques. But this is the greatness of a character like Strike; we are led to believe he is a bad influence through the dialogue of a police man named Andre the Giant (David) but this is perhaps just another cop's point of view and opinion on another African American kid.

    Andre believes Strike to be a bad influence on Tyrone (Love) but what Andre fails to notice is that there are higher, more criminal minds badly influencing Strike and that is more of a problem than Strike talking to Tyrone. The film is about a seemingly nice and somewhat moral 'gangstar' who is put in a situation where murder is the only way out, and we go through the narrative with the emphasis on this moral gangstar that he is actually a cold blooded killer in an excellent and very effective piece of atmosphere. But this is a slow burner and it slowly burns away at our opinion because there is a scene in Strike's apartment when he talks to Tyrone all about drugs and guns, apparently Tyrone should stay away from taking drugs but selling them will bring him a nice chunk of change; however guns are something that Tyrone should seriously consider getting into. To top this scene off, Tyrone is told that mathematics is also a very good thing. Already, Lee is trying to manipulate and force us to change out minds as to weather we like Strike. Is he a killer? Does he know drugs should be completely avoided? Why does he suggest Tyrone get a gun one day? Or is it just a misguided fool repeating what he once heard and saying what he thinks is right. Interesting how later on Tyrone repeats train information to another person after sort of adopting a 'Strike' figure.

    But the film has some more strong points. Rodney Little (Lindo) thinks that just because he has had a shotgun in the mouth and was manipulated into murder, he can do it to others. Little himself asks Strike "How are you so smart and so stupid?" in a scene that actually has someone echo Strike's personality to his face. Little's background in presented in a nasty and somewhat disturbing fashion via flashback to the days when he was younger with Errol Barnes (Byrd), the resident 'hood psychopath-come-criminal who seems to have some distorted views to do with religion. With all this in the melting plot, it's no wonder the film does a good job in maintain interest and quality delivery. Lee does not fail to focus on his subject matter like he does in Summer of Sam when tackling the psychological development of a serial killer and a love triangle at the same time became messy. Instead, he does not get sidetracked with any unnecessary sub-plots and keeps the delivery sharp, realistic and intriguing when the final act comes to an end.
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    • Apr 20, 2008

    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 13, 1995 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Штовхачі
    • Filming locations
      • Gowanus Housing Projects, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Universal Pictures
      • 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $25,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $13,071,518
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $4,463,560
      • Sep 17, 1995
    • Gross worldwide
      • $13,071,518
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 8 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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