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Sucker Free City (2004)
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Ben Crowley, Ken Leung, Anthony Mackie, Darris Love
Runtime113 min
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The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on the side. K-Luv (Mackie) is a member of the "V-Dubs", an African-American street gang. Lincoln (Leung) is a rising figure in the Chinese mafia. Gentrification forces Nick's family to move out of their home in the Mission District into Hunter's Point where they are harassed by the V-Dubs. K-Luv's side business of selling bootleg compact discs leads him to enlist Nick's help to bootleg CDs and to negotiate a truce with Lincoln. Lincoln conducts an affair with his boss' daughter Angela (Carpio), a Stanford student engaged to a medical student classmate.
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Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee, Sucker Free City (2004) offers a gritty, nuanced portrayal of the lives of three young men drawn into the criminal underworld of San Francisco. With standout performances from Ben Crowley, Anthony Mackie, and Ken Leung, the film delves into themes of gentrification, gang violence, and the difficult choices individuals must make to survive in a rapidly changing urban landscape.
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Sucker Free City is a 2004 American crime drama television film directed by Spike Lee and written by Alex Tse. The film examines white, black, and Chinese characters in San Francisco and the conflicts they encounter with each other. The film was intended to be the pilot for a Showtime television series, but Showtime declined to pick up the series. The film was first screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and was subsequently broadcast on Showtime.
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