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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 19, 1998
- Originally Released: 1995
- Label: Hollywood Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Larenz Tate | |
| Performer: | Keith David, Chris Tucker, N'Bushe Wright, Freddy Rodriguez, Bokeem Woodbine & Clifton Powell | |
| Directed by | Allen Hughes & Albert Hughes |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 2/4 --
Like those overreaching sophomore term papers we can all laugh at now, this disappointing film may free the Hughes brothers to move on to fresher, more inspired work.
New York Times
There are intriguing aspects to this yarn, and the brothers can choreograph a scene, but you get the impression that they learned all they know from other movies, the blood and guts is gratuitous...
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Time Out
Rating: 2/5 --
Platoon lite with a bitter ending that doesn't work in its favor...
Film Threat
Rating: 2/4 --
It's an overly ambitious effort that strains to work as a coming-of-age drama, a 1960s period piece and a searing comment on the way African American GIs went largely unappreciated for their war efforts.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 7/10 --
Talent of Hughes brothers deserves viewer's attention even when their results don't meet such high standards.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Rating: C+ --
The intense and excessive climactic set piece caper scene is the only true highlight in a superficial film.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dead Presidents may eventually box itself into a narrative dead end, but its muscular engagement of weighty themes and explosive situations makes it a powerful drama.
Variety
Product Description:
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.
Description by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.:
Dead Presidents
Get ready for action with this explosively exciting hit! On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran (Larenz Tate -- MENACE II SOCIETY) is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency! From the Hughes Brothers, acclaimed directors of the smash hit MENACE II SOCIETY -- you'll love every pulse-pounding second as these bold thieves risk it all for the score of a lifetime!
Keywords:
Thieves
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Thriller
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Vietnam
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War
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