Dead Presidents / A Rage in Harlem (2-DVD)

Starring: Larenz Tate; Keith David; Chris Tucker; Freddy Rodriguez; Forest Whitaker & Gregory Hines Director: Allen Hughes; Albert Hughes & Bill Duke  Rated:

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• Dolby Digital Surround - English

Product Description:

Directors Allen and Albert Hughes (MENACE II SOCIETY) return for another stylish take on the crime element in DEAD PRESIDENTS. 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.

A RAGE IN HARLEM starts out with brutal violence, proceeds into bawdy comedy, and somehow ends up a surprisingly touching love story. Forest Whitaker stars as Jackson, a naively pious accountant at a Harlem funeral parlor. When the sexy Imabelle, played to vamping perfection by Robin Givens, rolls into town with a trunk full of stolen gold, Jackson's world is turned upside down. But when the bad guys arrive--hot on Imabelle's heels--Jackson desperately turns to his estranged stepbrother, Goldy (Gregory Hines), the only person he knows who might have the street smarts to get them all out of trouble.

Plot Keywords:

1960s | Comedy | Drama | Murder | Scams And Cons | Social Issues | Suspense

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