New Jack City
- Thu, Mar 19
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Director: Mario Van Peebles Run Time: 97 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1991
Starring: Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Wesley Snipes
Screenwriters: Thomas Lee Wright, Barry Michael Cooper
Producers: George Jackson, David McHenry
Vidiots is thrilled to welcome the legendary multi-hyphenate Mario Van Peebles for a special screening of his directorial debut film New Jack City followed by a conversation with Van Peebles and Santi Elijah Holley, the author of An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created, and a forthcoming book on Melvin Van Peebles and independent Black cinema.
Mario Van Peebles remixes the blaxploitation genre for the 1990s in this gritty gangster flick. The Cash Money Brothers with kingpin Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) at their helm run the steets and drug trade of New York City. Two hard-nosed NYPD officers (Ice-T and Judd Nelson) have got to go undercover to bring down the pushers and save the streets of Harlem from the crack epidemic. An electric debut that helped usher in the urban gangster wave of the 1990s, with a killer soundtrack, and tons of cameos from Fab Five Freddy, Flava Flav, Eek-a-Mouse, and Keith Sweat, to name a few, New Jack City is an intoxicating crime classic, best enjoyed big and loud!
Come early for an all vinyl DJ set from DJ Jéli!
Accessibility Options: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.