New Jack City Page #6

Synopsis: The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miserably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Mario Van Peebles
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
R
Year:
1991
97 min
2,996 Views


you ripping off to me?

Look where we at. Not a pot to piss in,

nor a window to throw it out of.

You's the fool, old man.

Don't try it, old man.

Don't even think about.

You don't understand, do you?

Idolater, you reap what you sow!

This is some fly sh*t.

Some George Raft- some

James Cagney-type sh*t.

You know what I'm saying?

- That's how you living, baby.

- Living large, brother.

Good looking out this afternoon

with that madness.

Gee Money should've seen it coming.

Old man really wanted to do me,

didn't he?

Old bastard.

But here's something

you might not find so funny.

Your boy Gee Money tried to cut

a side deal with me.

You can't trust anybody these days.

You can trust me. I got your back.

Thank you.

Now Reverend Oates will say

a few words to the happy couple.

You got to wait till somebody else

gets some too, okay?

Before we eat up all this cake,

we ought to give a toast...

...to my daughter, my new son-in-law

and our gracious host...

...Mr. Nino Brown.

I got something for you.

That's my business card.

Call me sometime.

Hey, what's up? You still mad at me?

F*** you, then.

- Where is the Duh Duh Man?

- Probably after that skeezer he was on.

What's up with Selina?

I don't know. Losing her mind,

that's what's up.

You think I care?

This is my world, my money...

...and that's my skeezer.

Hi, Daddy.

Thank you, mister.

Cover me!

Throw me a gun!

Get down!

Motherfuckers!

You're a murderer, Nino!

I've seen you kill too many people!

Cancel that b*tch.

I'll buy another one.

I hate you!

I hate you, Nino!

Don Armeteo's on the phone for you.

We made you. We gave you everything.

Shagazzy's, the Spotlite,

the street corners.

So you got cute.

You had to get spanked.

Now you listen to me. I made this. Me.

I own this city, you slicked-back,

greasy-haired...

...son of a b*tch!

You're f***ed!

This bulletin just in.

In a scene to rival the famed

St. Valentine's Day Massacre...

...of 1920's Chicago...

...Don Armeteo, reputed crime lord,

and 10 of his henchmen...

...were gunned down this afternoon...

I put you two together.

And you guys go off on your own...

...and now you want to come back.

You're telling me the disk I took

isn't important?

I'm telling you,

I hope it is important.

This is Hawkins.

We go back to law school.

She's the prosecuting attorney.

The son of a b*tch used a little girl

as a bulletproof vest.

Watch your language.

Nino is going to fall.

- What about the Pookie video?

- It helps, but it's not enough.

Nino isn't in any of the tapes

at the Carter.

He's becoming Mr. Untouchable.

How many more got to get killed?

I could have smoked this fool myself.

Can we catch him in a drug buy?

Or get a witness who will testify...

...to connect all the dots?

Nino's got great connections. Can we

nail any of them and tie them to Nino?

Check this out.

We got it set up so the

CMB brothers will buy from us.

And I also got it so Nino Brown

definitely doesn't trust Gee Money.

And we'll get it on videotape.

What's up, fellows?

Got the bucks?

So nice of you to make it.

Know what I'm saying?

What can I say?

What's taking him so long?

Nino's not moving. Sh*t.

Let's do this.

Open the briefcase.

Easy.

Very easy.

I thought we was friends.

I told you, it's never personal, B.

Friends is friends. This is business.

Let's see the sample.

Whatever.

All here, baby.

I knew I knew Washington. He's 5-0.

Suck-ass motherf***er.

Punch it! Just do it!

You cut a side deal

with that motherf***er.

Yes, you did. Yes, you did, Gee.

F***ing Cain.

My brother's keeper.

Was it this...

...glass dick you've been sucking on?

Was that it? Now I see how

you let that motherf***er infiltrate.

He used you, Gee.

What ever happened to,

"Am I my brother's keeper?"

You know what happened to it.

"The world is mine. "

Remember that?

"Everything is mine. Everything!"

Even my woman.

Is that what this is about?

That f***ing skeezer?

You think I give a f*** about her?

F*** that ho b*tch!

I don't give a f*** about her!

It ain't about her.

It's about us.

I love you, man.

You embarrassed me, man!

In front of all them people,

you treated me like I was soft.

You treated me like I was spineless!

We built this sh*t!

You didn't do this sh*t by yourself!

You forgot about me, man, your brother.

What has this done to us?

Keisha...

...dead.

The Duh Duh Man...

...dead.

Let's just make it like it was.

Let's be a family.

Let's make it like it was.

F*** them cars and

them b*tches and all that sh*t.

F*** that sh*t!

Let's do us, me and you.

Let's be a family again.

I'm on the run.

It can never go back the way it was.

But I'll tell you how

we can make it right.

CMB.

CMB!

We all we got.

Am I my brother's keeper?

Yes, I am.

You know where Nino Brown lives?

You heard my man.

I ain't telling you sh*t.

Last summer, me and my boys won

this basketball tournament.

Bought the whole team brand-new

red scooters. So you can kiss my ass.

Kiss my ass with that.

You know something, B?

This dude is a cop. 5-0! B, out!

Come here, punk!

I know where Nino lives.

He beat this kid who

scrambled for him with a bat.

Poured gas on him and set him on fire...

...after he shorted him $5.

I hope you kill his black, hardened ass.

He's in apartment 6C.

But watch out.

He got bodyguards on the roof.

Say hello to my little friend.

Buckwheat.

Punk!

Kill him!

How the hell can you wear this and sell

poison to our people? You ain't sh*t!

Toss him down to me.

That teacher you killed?

That was my mother!

Kick his black ass!

These are the people you squash

and kill with no retribution.

Get your ass up.

This ain't business, b*tch.

This is personal.

I want to shoot you so bad,

my dick's hard.

Coming through, excuse me.

We'll do this the right way.

I'll testify.

Even if it means my life,

I will testify.

Come on.

We can't go out like this.

Put the gun down.

Don't throw your life away

on a piece of sh*t.

Give me the gun. I'll do it.

I'll be out in a week.

You're a dead man.

Was the defendant, Mr. Nino Brown,

head of the CMB?

Remove the hat and the sunglasses.

Detective Appleton, when you

infiltrated the CMB...

...did the defendant, Mr. Nino Brown...

...attempt to buy two and a half kilos

of cocaine from you?

Did he? Can Michael Jordan slam-dunk?

Of course he did. He's a dope dealer.

That's what they do, buy and sell dope.

I'm not guilty.

You're the one who's guilty.

You lawmakers, the politicians,

the Colombian drug lords...

...all you who lobby against

making drugs legal.

Just like you did with alcohol

during Prohibition.

You're the one who's guilty.

Let's kick the ballistics here.

Ain't no Uzis made in Harlem.

Not one of us in here

owns a poppy field.

This thing is bigger than Nino Brown.

This is big business.

This is the American way.

I'm sure that the court

was enlightened...

...by your geopolitical tirade.

Unfortunately, society at large

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Thomas Lee Wright

Thomas Lee Wright, an American writer and Academy Award nominated filmmaker, is best known for his timely and powerful documentaries, including "Edith+Eddie" (producer) which won the IDA (International Documentary Association) Best Short award and an Oscar nomination, "Eight-Tray Gangster" (director) for the Discovery Channel which tells the story of L.A.'s Rodney King riots from a gang member's perspective, and the award-winning WTO 'Battle in Seattle' chronicle "Trade Off" (producer) for Human Rights Watch. Three of his films deal with war veterans - "The Long Ride Home" (director), "To Them That's Gone" (exec producer) and "Last Flag Flying" (exec producer) which he developed as a feature film for director Richard Linklater, starring Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell and Laurence Fishburne. Wright also penned the original screenplay for the Warner Brothers hit "New Jack City" starring Wesley Snipes, Chris Rock and Ice-T, which the New York Times called "an urban classic" on the 25th anniversary of its premiere. A Minnesota native, Wright attended Harvard University, writing and directing plays and earning a degree in English Literature with honors, then studied Irish Theater at Trinity College, Dublin, while playing point guard for its national championship basketball team. Moving to Los Angeles, Wright became a story editor at Walt Disney and Columbia Pictures, before serving as a creative executive at Paramount Pictures, where he helped develop "48 HRS", "Trading Places", "Flashdance" and other movies. Wright's treatment for "The Godfather, Part Three" launched his screenwriting career and led to writing projects for every major studio and many of Hollywood's top producers, including Peter Guber, Dino De Laurentiis, Mike Medavoy, Daniel Melnick and Don Simpson, among others. Wright co-wrote a pair of definitive widely-used books about filmmaking - 'Working in Hollywood' traces the making of a motion picture through tasks performed by 64 different workers behind the scenes, and 'American Screenwriters' which is a collection of interviews with top writers discussing the craft and business of screenwriting. more…

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