Juice

Juice

1992 · 96 min · EN · R · 7.2 (487 votes)
Dir. Ernest R. Dickerson · Starring Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Khalil Kain, Jermaine Hopkins, Cindy Herron, Samuel L. Jackson · Music The Bomb Squad

“In the Ghettos of Harlem you don't buy respect... you earn it.”

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Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.

VIBE

A raw, propulsive dive into the volatile world of young men navigating street life and fractured friendships. It pulses with the energy of early hip-hop culture, underscored by a palpable sense of dread and the inevitable fallout of desperate choices.

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