Stars: Larenze Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, N'Bushe Wright, Freddy Rodriguez, Bokeem Woodbine, Clifton Powell

Director: Allen Hughes

Summary: On the streets cash is called 'dead presidents'. And that is exactly what ex-Vietnam vet Anthony Curtis badly needs when he returns home from the war. With the aid of his friends he plans the ultimate heist - a daylight robbery on an armoured car. If he's successful he'll never have money problems again...

A young black man from Brooklyn leaves his girlfriend and his numbers-running mentor to fight in Vietnam in 1968 only to return three years later to find no welcome and little hope for him and his buddies. Unemployed and desperate, he plans and executes an armored car robbery to secure enough "dead presidents" (slang for cash) to give him a fresh start.

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Twin brother codirectors Albert and Alan Hughes planned their first film, the 1991 ghetto crime drama Menace II Societyas a response to John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood, which they considered wimpy and moralistic. They set their sights on The Deer Hunterin this ambitious follow-up, and they just about pull it off. Larenz Tate (from Why Do Fools Fall in Love) plays Anthony Curtis, an open-hearted African American teenager who gets shipped out to Vietnam with several of his pals, witnesses unspeakable horrors and then struggles to readjust to civilian life. The evolving textures of life in a declining inner-city neighbourhood over a period of a decade are seamlessly evoked and there's enough nuanced character development and personal interaction for a seven-hour miniseries. Still in their early 20s, the Hughes brothers are already poised and masterful movie makers; they cover an enormous amount of historical and emotional ground and every twist and turn is crystal clear. They betray their inexperience only at the very end, in an elaborately staged heist sequence that, while stunningly executed, feels a bit desperate, as if they were reaching blindly for a big pay off. Chris Tucker (Rush Hour) has a startling supporting role as a kid who becomes a junkie during the war and never quite recovers. --David Chute

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Subtitles:	Dutch, English
Year:	1996
Release Date:	June 15, 2006
Runtime:	114 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B E D 888184
Keywords:	Action, Dead, General, Wide, Screen, Adventure, Presidents
Genre:	Action/Adventure