Movie
New Jack City
Overview
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Details
- Release date
- 1991-03-08
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Genres
- Thriller, Crime, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Jacmac Films, Jackson-McHenry Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown
- Ice-T as Scotty Appleton
- Allen Payne as Garald "Gee Money" Welles
- Chris Rock as Pookie
- Mario Van Peebles as Stone
- Michael Michele as Selina
- Bill Nunn as Duh Duh Duh Man
- Russell Wong as Park
- Bill Cobbs as Old Man
- Christopher Williams as Kareem Akbar
- Judd Nelson as Nick Peretti
- Vanessa Williams as Keisha
Crew
- Mario Van Peebles - Director
- Thomas Lee Wright - Screenplay
- Barry Michael Cooper - Screenplay
- Thomas Lee Wright - Story
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