Stars: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Judd Nelson, Mario Van Peebles, Chris Rock, Tracy Camila Johns, Michael Michele, Vanessa L. Williams

Director: Mario Van Peebles

Summary: Drug baron Nino Brown and his gang hit the streets with the highly addictive drug, crack. Taking over a town building they set up their own crack factory, but all is not lost. Two renegade cops infiltrate the operation and plan Brown's downfall.

Nino Brown is an American success story - with a twist. He's young, handsome, smart, rich, successful and prominent in his community. But Nino is a big-time drug baron and head of a street gang and two cops are out to take him down.

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Some pundits called it a flawed, exploitative action film that glamorised drug dealing and the luxury of a lucrative criminal lifestyle, spawning a trend of films that attracted youth gangs and provoked violence in cinemas. Others hailed it as a breakthrough movie that depicted drug dealers as ruthless, corrupt, and evil, leading dead-end lives that no rational youth would want to emulate. However you interpret it, New Jack Cityis still one of the first and best films of the 1990s to crack open the underworld of cocaine and peer inside with its eyes wide open. It's also the film that established Wesley Snipes as an actor to watch, with enough charisma to bring an insidious quality of seduction to his role as coke-lord Nino Brown, and enough intelligence to portray a character deluded by his own sense of indestructible power. Director Mario Van Peebles stretched his otherwise-limited talent to bring vivid authenticity and urgency to this crime story, and subplots involving a pair of tenacious cops (Ice-T, Judd Nelson) and a recovering coke addict (Chris Rock) provide additional dramatic tension. Although some critics may hesitate to admit it, New Jack Citydeserves mention in any serious discussion about African American filmmakers and influential films. --Jeff Shannon

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menus, Scene Access
Subtitles:	Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Year:	1991
Release Date:	July 1, 1999
Runtime:	96 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 012073
Keywords:	Action, New, City, Jack, General, Wide, Screen, Adventure
Genre:	Action/Adventure