Clockers (1995)
- Starring:
- Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, (more)
- Director(s):
- Spike Lee
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Category:
- Drama
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Based on Richard Price's grim best-seller, and directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay co-written with Price, Clockers takes the structure of a police procedural to build a chilling portrait of despair, hope, and the unanswered problem of black-on-black crime in an urban housing project. The film's haunting themes are vividly visualized during the opening credits, which run over police photos of dead young black men, shot and sprawled on sidewalks, in streets, and hanging over fences. Strike (Mekhi Phifer) is a 19-year-old African-American "clocker" -- the lowest link on the drug dealing chain -- who hangs around park benches and street corners selling small amounts of druges at all hours of the day. Strike drinks chocolate milk to soothe an ulcer and plays with model trains in his apartment, dreaming of a way out of his dead-end life. Drug kingpin Rodney (Delroy Lindo) asks Strike to kill another clocker, Darryl, for skimming money, saying that this will be Strike's ticket to a higher post in Rodney's organization. Darryl is indeed shot, and suspicion immediately falls on Strike, but a weary cop named Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel) thinks there's more to the case. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 129 mins
Complete Cast:
- Harvey Keitel - Rocco Klein
- Delroy Lindo - Rodney Little
- Isaiah Washington - Victor
- L.B. Williams - Bike Cop
- Spike Lee - Chucky
- Steve White - Darryl Adams
- Joanna Gardner - Corrections Officer
- Hassan Johnson - Skills
- Ron Brice - Dead Man Begging
- Thomas Jefferson Byrd - Errol Barnes
- Rick Aiello - Cop
- Michael Badalucco - Cop
- Paul Calderon - Jesus at Hambones
- Frances Foster - Gloria
- Michael Imperioli - Jo-Jo
- Brendan Kelly - Big Chief
- Pee Wee Love - Tyrone
- Norman Matlock - Reverend Paul
- Scot Anthony Robinson - Earl
- Maurice Sneed - Davis the Bartender
- Regina Taylor - Iris Jeeter
- Marc Webster - EMS Technician
- John Turturro - Larry Mazilli
- Mekhi Phifer - Strike
- Keith David - Andre the Giant
- Ginny Yang - Kiki
- Jeff Ward - Bike Cop
- John Fletcher - Al the Medic
- Paul Schulze - Detective
- E.O. Nolasco - Horace
- Christopher Wynkoop - Detective
- Lawrence B. Adisa
- Lisa Anderson - Sharon
- Graham Brown - Mr Herman Brown
- Michael Cullen - Narc
- Ken Garito - Louie
- Tim Kelleher - Narc
- Harry J. Lennix - Bill Walker
- J.C. MacKenzie - Frank the Medic
- Anthony Nocerino - Teen
- James Saxenmeyer - EMS Attendant
- Mike Starr - Thumper
- Leonard Thomas - Onion the Bar Patron
- Director(s):
- Spike Lee
- Writer(s):
- Spike Lee, Richard Price
- Producer(s):
- Spike Lee, Monty Ross, Jon Kilik
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Profanity, Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Adult Situations)
- Categories:
- Drama
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