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Synopsis: Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Charles Stone III
Production: Dimension Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
R
Year:
2002
97 min
$3,042,188
7,829 Views


Get the f*** up!

What you waitin' for, man?

Ohh!

Open the f***in' safe, nigga!

Do what they say, Ace.

Open up the motherfuckin' safe, man.

It's too dark in here, man.

What the f***?

I can't even see the --

Yo, get this nigga some light.

Come on, man.

Open this f***in' safe.

Yo, Calvin, man,

why you doing this?

F*** all that!

Shut the f*** up!

F***in' asking me "why this?"

or why that?"

You think I'm playin'?

Leave him alone!

Please!

You think I'm playin'?

Open that f***in' safe, man!

Look at me.

No!

Look at me.

I said look at me!

You think I'm some

Kermit motherf***er now? Huh?

Listen, man, don't f***in' do this, man.

You think I'm f***in' playin'?

Open the safe!

Hold on, man!

Now, next time I ain't gonna miss.

Night?

There ain't even no money

in this safe, man.

There ain't sh*t in here.

I got 100 grand at the crib.

Look at this nigga playing games.

There ain't no money in the safe.

I can't see with f***in' blood in my eyes.

Get his ass up out of here.

F***!

Take his ass home.

Clean him up.

Get up, man!

Get up, man!

Get in there, man.

Now, I told you now, I'm not playin'.

Shut the f*** up!

What's the f***in' combination? Huh?

Shut up with that cryin' sh*t!

I'm not trying to hear that!

What's the f***in' combination?

Aah!

She was 7 pounds.

And her daddy survived.

Only God and love

could have kept me breathing

after all those bullets.

I told myself when I could

breathe without a tube

I was gonna breathe deep.

What's up?

Nigga needs some work, man.

What's goin' on?

Ain't nothin' pumpin' right now, B.

Come on, man.

I know y'all got something.

F***, is you deaf, man'?

I said we ain't got sh*t goin'

on right now, B.

So a nigga's supposed to starve

'cause your man got shot?

- What?

- Damn!

What's that, partner?

Calvin must got

you niggas shook.

Calvin'?

What, you one of Calvin --

what the f***?

Is you one of Calvin's

hoes, man?

Get that nigga out of the car, man.

Get that b*tch out of the car.

Get the f*** up.

Get up. Do you know what Calvin did?

- Come on, man. Don't do this.

- Get the f*** undressed.

Your sneakers, too!

Next time you talk about Calvin.

Get off the block!

With me out the gang,

sh*t got dry up on the

streets real quick.

Watch your f***in' mouth next time!

And Rico ain't showin' nobody love.

F***in' bullshit.

Ay, oh, ay, niggas get

shot every day, B.

You be a'ight, nigga.

You're tough, right?

I'm out, Rico.

You understand what I'm saying?

Look at me.

I've been shot in the head, baby.

My body different.

I'm breathing different.

You understand what I'm saying'?

The doctor said I wasn't gonna

walk the same.

You understand what I'm saying?

I'm out.

Yo, A., man, pull your skirt down, B.

The streets is missing you, yo.

Come on, man. What you want--

Give all this sh*t up?

Yo, A., man, it's like this, man.

We down on our last bricks, man.

Sh*t's drying up out there.

You hear me?

Niggas ain't eatin' on the streets.

Everybody gettin' antsy

out there, baby.

I know what floats A's boat.

Remember this, nigga?

We can go right around the corner.

Like I'm some kind of hoe.

You got paper.

- Right here.

- What's poppin', Kermie?

Aah!

A'ight, nigga?

You clean now.

Aah!

That motherf***er's gone.

He's not coming back, B.

I laid the murder game down.

Letting niggas know

we not f***in' around, man.

Let's just cool, yo.

What the f*** are you doing, man?

Do you even know

what you're doing, man?

Don't have the f***in' cops

coming up in here

looking for me, man,

on account of some sh*t you did.

You understand?

Sh*t is hot.

Well, then you need to give up the connect

and let us handle sh*t then, B.

Look, man, we know what's hot

on the streets, man.

Believe me, man.

We out there e'day.

But, yo, man, we just got to

take it easy, man. That's it.

I mean, it's like what the f***

are we waiting for, Bf?

You know your connects

on the other motherfuckers.

We wastin' time.

And there's crack sh*t movin' in.

You know what?

You just need a little more rest, B.

Cover up.

Get you some soup.

Some tea.

Come on, man.

You're talking crazy, B.

Ay, yo, check here your man.

Give him a thermometer,

take his temperature or something, man.

I'm outta here, Mitch.

Peace, baby.

Still got the flash of that gun

in my head, man.

That white light.

And it was like that light, man,

was sayin',

"You're dead."

A., you ain't got to be

thinking about that, man.

You here. You blessed.

A'ight, baby?

You blessed.

Seeing that light for a long time.

Gettin' this money.

Trying to stay, you know,

trying to stay up out the light.

Up out the spotlight,

the club,

and all that kind of stuff, man.

Trying to hide.

Trying to, you know--

But it's all fake.

Understand what I'm sayin'?

This life.

This game,

there ain't no love in it.

It don't love you back.

No. I feel ya, A.

I do, man.

But see, man,

a nigga like me, man,

I love the game.

I love the hustle, man.

I be feelin' like one of them

ball-playin' niggas, you know'?

Like Bird or Magic

or something.

Yeah, you know a nigga got dough.

A nigga could leave the league.

But if I leave,

the fans still gonna love me, man'?

I get love out here in Harlem, man.

I done sold coke on these streets, man.

Hash, weed, heroin.

As long as niggas is feeling it,

a nigga like me can hustle it.

That's my gift in life, A.

You know?

What? What the f*** you laughing at, B.?

You, man.

You're funny, man.

You're a hustling motherf***er, man.

For real, baby.

You're f***in' killin' me, man.

Come on.

You know me, baby.

Man.

Yo. I'm gonna hook you up

with that connect, man.

I'm gonna put in a word.

You just gotta give me some time

to make it happen.

Man, you just take all the time.

You just get better, baby. A'ight?

Definitely.

Yeah, what up?

Who this?

Wait, wait, wait.

What'?

Wait, calm down.

Calm down, first of--

I'm coming home, a'ight?

Just take it easy.

Take it easy.

I'm gonna be there in a minute.

What's up, Ma?

What's going on?

Huh?

Sonny here yet?

Sonny!

Mitch.

What the f*** is th--

Who gave this to you?

What's this a joke or something?

Where's this nigga Ice?

You told him not to come here!

What is he supposed--

Look, I know what I told him to do.

Look, did he tell you anything?

Does he know anything?

No, Mitch! Sh*t!

Just pay the guy!

What are you talkin' about?

Who gave this to you?

Look, look, look.

Stop talking about my money.

Look, let me find out what's going on first!

Just calm down.

Calm down!

Get away.

Look, he's probably on 42nd street

playing video games

or something like that, all right?

Let me just take care of it.

Let me look and see what's going

on out there first.

All right? Calm down.

Yo, A., Sonny's gone, man.

What?

Yo, somebody took him, man. Somebody.

What you mean somebody took him?

Nah, this sh*t is real, B. They came around,

they dropped off a note, man,

asking for money, man.

Who? Who?

Look, they want $500,000

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