Clockers (film)
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| Clockers | |
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| Directed by | Spike Lee |
| Produced by | Jon Kilik Spike Lee Martin Scorsese |
| Written by | Richard Price (novel and screenplay) Spike Lee (screenplay) |
| Starring | Harvey Keitel John Turturro Delroy Lindo Mekhi Phifer |
| Music by | Terence Blanchard |
| Cinematography | Malik Hassan Sayeed |
| Editing by | Samuel D. Pollard |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 13, 1995 |
| Running time | 128 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25,000,000 (est.) |
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Clockers is a 1995 Spike Lee joint, based on the novel by Richard Price. The film stars Mekhi Phifer in his first role.
Setting: The Movie was Filmed In Gowanus Projects in Brooklyn, New York
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Rodney, a drug boss (Delroy Lindo), tells Strike, a clocker— low-level drug dealer (Mekhi Phifer) that Darryl Adams (Steve White), is stealing from him. Rodney tells Strike that Darryl "got to be got", not really being clear if he wants Strike to kill him. Strike then meets his brother, Victor Dunham (Isaiah Washington).
Soon after, Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel) and Larry Mazilli (John Turturro), homicide detectives, ride to the scene of a murder. The aftermath of Darryl's mortal wounds are shown: he was shot in his teeth, the back of his head, and two more places. The white detectives are then seen making racial remarks about him, saying that Darryl is "one less nubian to worry about.”
Larry and Rocco pick up Victor at church to question him for the murder. In the interrogation room, Victor tells Rocco that he was the one that shot Darryl over self-defense. Rocco doesn't believe it because, unlike his brother Strike, Victor does not have a criminal record.
Complications with the murder case ensue as Rocco tries to piece together what had really happened by going to the projects. For Strike, he ponders about leaving the gang life but does not know how to escape from Rodney's clutches.
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[edit] Reception
The movie was critically acclaimed by many film critics. Roger Ebert gave the movie a three-and-a-half stars, and it earned a 76% "fresh" rating from Rotten Tomatoes. The movie (along with the novel) would foreshadow similar projects, such as The Wire, for which author/screenwriter Richard Price is also a writer and Fredro Starr and Hassan Johnson cast members.
[edit] Film poster
Critics and film buffs were quick to notice that the poster, designed by Art Sims, was extremely similar to Saul Bass' art for Otto Preminger's 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder. Sims claimed that it was a homage, but Bass nonetheless regarded that as a rip-off. [1]
[edit] Cast
- Harvey Keitel – Det. Rocco Klein
- John Turturro – Det. Larry Mazilli
- Delroy Lindo – Rodney Little
- Sticky Fingaz – Scientific
- Mekhi Phifer – Ronald 'Strike' Dunham
- Isaiah Washington – Victor Dunham
- Keith David – André the Giant
- Pee Wee Love – Tyrone 'Shorty' Jeeter
- Regina Taylor – Iris Jeeter
- Fredro Starr – Go
- Elvis Nolasco – Horace
- Thomas Jefferson Byrd – Errol Barnes
- Lawrence B. Adisa – Stan
- Hassan Johnson – Skills
- Frances Foster – Gloria
- Michael Imperioli – Detective Jo-Jo
- Mike Starr – Thumper
- Lisa Arrindell Anderson - Sharon
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