Two friends try to kick their drug addiction after a friend dies from an overdose, when they try to enroll in a detox program, things quickly go wrong.
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Title: Gridlock'd (1997)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Tim Roth | ... | Stretch | |
| Tupac Shakur | ... | Spoon | |
| Thandie Newton | ... | Cookie | |
| Charles Fleischer | ... | Mr. Woodson | |
| Howard Hesseman | ... | Blind Man | |
| James Pickens Jr. | ... | Supervisor | |
| John Sayles | ... | Cop #1 | |
| Eric Payne | ... | Cop #2 | |
| Tom Towles | ... | D-Reper's Henchman | |
| Tom Wright | ... | Koolaid | |
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James Shanta | ... | Patrolman #1 |
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Jim O'Malley | ... | Patrolman #2 |
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George Poulos | ... | Chuck |
| Debbie Zaricor | ... | Clerk | |
| Mik Scriba | ... | Officer #1 | |
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After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police. Written by Andy Bogursky <bogursky@erols.com>
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murder of an asian woman | murder of a pregnant woman | pregnancy | buddy cop | weird |Taglines:
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Rated R for graphic drug use, pervasive strong language, some violence and brief nudity | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Alexander 'Stretch' Rawland: I'm thinking about getting a penis implant.
Ezekiel 'Spoon' Whitmore: Get the fuck out of here.
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Vondie Curtis-Hall originally offered the part of Spoon to Laurence Fishburne. But Curtis-Hall could not afford Fishburne's salary. The part was also offered to Don Cheadle and Forest Whitaker. See more »Goofs
When main characters are in the diner for "breakfast", the TV news broadcast from the kitchen shows the announcer doing station identification as "KMT" ... they're supposed to be in Detroit, east of the Mississippi River, where station IDs start with a "W" ... stations west of the Mississippi start w/ a "K". See more »Quotes
[first lines]Alexander 'Stretch' Rawland: I'm thinking about getting a penis implant.
Ezekiel 'Spoon' Whitmore: Get the fuck out of here.
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29 January 1997 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$2,678,372, 2 February 1997Gross USA:
$5,571,205Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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From the very first to the very last scenes of this film, I sat immobile, bug-eyed, and completely agog at the sight of my own painfully hopeless experience as a strung-out junk zombie. And I wonder: why did they never screen this film for us in rehab? Not only is "Gridlock'd" an exciting, intelligent, and visually riveting film, it is also dead on the money in its depiction of the excruciating emotional, spiritual, and material bankruptcy of a junkie's living death. Stretch and Spoon are well fleshed-out characters with which I can identify in almost every aspect, and are beautifully portrayed by Shakur and Roth. The true genius of this story is that, despite its grim and uncomfortably blunt treatment of its subject matter, it manages to convey a message of hope that no matter how deeply entrenched in addiction one may be, one CAN break the shackles of substance abuse and realize that one's life is worth saving.