Crack House

Starring:Jim Brown, Anthony Geary, Richard Roundtree, Cheryl Kay, Angel Tompkins, Clyde Jones, Albert Michel Jr., Heidi Thomas, Kenny Edwards, Joey Green, Jon Greene, T. Rodgers, Louis Rivera (IV), Willie Hernadez, Gregg Thomsen, Jacob Vargas, Michael Matthews, Derek Googe, Maria R. Kelly, Tommy Morgan Jr.
Director: Michael Fischa
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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What can I say about this movie!
Cam's Shining Moment = Another Rocafella Films Classic............
Gangsta Painted with Love
Not your typical hood movie-- through Az's eyes
Another Underrated Classic

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Starring: Karen Andrew , Cam'ron , Kevin Carroll , Jonas Chernick , and Remo Greene
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ASIN: B00008DDUY
Release Date: 2003-04-08

Description

Hot stars Mekhi Phifer (8 MILE, SHAFT, TV's ER) and Wood Harris (REMEMBER THE TITANS) team up in an edgy, hard-hitting film with a slammin' soundtrack! Stuck in a nowhere job, Ace (Harris) is a restless teenager who envies the expensive cars, flashy clothes, and high-rolling lifestyle of his drug-dealing friends. Then when he sees his chance, Ace makes the move that suddenly changes his life! Drawn by the seductive lure of easy money in the illicit Harlem underground, he uses his skills to quickly take control of the streets and seize all the power than comes with it! Also starring rap star Cam'ron (WOO) and Chi McBride (GONE IN 60 SECONDS, TV's BOSTON PUBLIC) -- you don't want to miss this gripping look at chasing the American dream ... from the wrong side of the tracks!

Customer Reviews:

What can I say about this movie!.......2007-05-11

This is one of the best kingpen movies I've ever seen! All the actors do a great job in this one, even Cam managed not to mess this one up. All I can say is, forget Scarface, this is the new movie all the up and comers will be looking at!

Cam's Shining Moment = Another Rocafella Films Classic...................2007-05-09

Wood Harris and Mekhi Phieffer are great in this movie as 1980's New York drug kingpins. The surprise of the whole movie is Camron's convincing role as the villain of the movie.

Gangsta Painted with Love.......2007-03-26

In a mood that deemphasizes the sex and violence in favor of the moral cost of the drug trade, this film has the easygoing persona of a soap opera with a bite that hits you afterwards.

Not your typical hood movie-- through Az's eyes.......2007-03-04

The movie is definately above your average straight to video or Menace II Society clone. What is working for this film is a combination of many vital elements that combine to make quite a tasty slice of urban life. The film has plot,character development and outstanding acting. The stand out preformance in the movie is Mekhi Phifer playing one of the three Harlem drug dealers with such freshness. Cam'ron's role as Rico is quite good considering he is a rapper and not a trained actor. Then again, I guess the role Cam'ron played is not a strech consdering the type of lyrics presents in his music.

The plot of the movie is based around the life of three famous drug dealers in Harlem named Az,Alpo,and Richard Porter. In the movie their names are fictionalized into Ace[Az],Mitch[Richard Porter],and Rico[Alpo]. I will not bore with anyfurther details because I am sure the following has probably been overemphasized enough in other reviews. Understand,though, the movie was told primarly through the eyes of Az and not through Alpo. Alpo even complained that this movie presented him as a follower instead of a leader in the drug game.

Solid movie that defies the notion that urban drams are all cut from the same cloth.

Another Underrated Classic.......2006-09-17

This is the type of movie you will turn on by chance in the middle of the night when you are about to go to sleep and after a few minutes you are hooked and end up staying up another couple hours and next thing you know it's morning and you still haven't gotten to sleep - it is that good. Well done all around and an especially strong performances from both Wood Harris and Cam'Ron - the realism just blew me away. At first glance it doesn't look like much but that's about as far from the truth as you can get - a definite pick-up.

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Awesome movie...
Average Spike Lee drama
AMAZIING!!!
"You are sellin' your own people death!"
CLASSIC GANGSTA MOVIE; 4.5 STARS

Clockers
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ASIN: 0783230443
Release Date: 1999-01-05

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Based on the riveting bestseller by Richard Price, this 1995 crime drama was directed by Spike Lee with such authority and authenticity that it has the hyper-real quality of a stylized documentary. Fully capturing the thoroughly researched detail of Price's novel, the film focuses on Strike (newcomer Mekhi Phifer), a young, ambitious "clocker"--or drug dealer--who works the streets of his New York housing project, selling drugs for a local supplier named Rodney (played with ferocious charisma by Delroy Lindo). Just as Strike is struggling to get away from his dead-end life of crime, another dealer is murdered in a fast-food restaurant and local detectives (Harvey Keitel, John Turturro) consider Strike the primary suspect. In cowriting the script with novelist Price, Lee uses this murder mystery to explore the plague of guns and black-on-black crime in America's inner cities, in which drugs and death are familiar routines of daily life. The film doesn't pretend to offer solutions, nor does it dwell on the problem with numbing insistence. Rather, this taut, well-acted film takes the viewer into a world often hidden in plain sight--a world where options seem nonexistent for youth conditioned to have little or no expectation beyond a probable early death. Lee and Price are deadly serious in handling this volatile subject (which incorporates racism, powerless law enforcement, and political indifference), but Clockers is also blessed with humor, insight, and humanity. It's one of Lee's most confidently directed films, signaling a creative maturity that Lee continued to develop throughout the 1990s. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Awesome movie..........2006-07-14

Clockers is one the best movies I've seen covering life on the streets of Northeast America. Movies like Boyz N the Hood and Menace II Society cover the streets of LA but people who kno the streets of the northeast (NYC, Trenton, Philly) do not relate to palm trees and spacious project homes. In the Northeast, people are tightly packed into high-rise projects or row homes. They co-exist with different ethnic groups, all struggling to make it out. Spike Lee does a great job collaborating with author Richard Price in coming up with a superb script. Growing up in an urban environment, I was instantly attracted to the film by its pure street dialogue. Mekhi Phifer makes the street dialogue seem as authentic as it can get.

Average Spike Lee drama.......2006-04-09

Wow.. to start with I had to turn on English subtitles to watch this movie in English. Even then it was hard to puzzle out what was said in this film half the time. I'm not a big fan of Spike Lee films - they're too stereotypical and portray people in a negative light.
'Clockers' could have been a gripping detective story while also exposing the drugs and violence which black youths find it so hard to escape from. But that isn't enough for Lee who stuffs his film with so many half-developed ideas that it becomes tiresome to watch.
Lee seems at one point to be commenting on the influence of violent music videos and video games, but when he fails to develop this line of reasoning, it's clear these sidetracks are only a means to fill the film with his intrusive visual fireworks. Many scenes serve no dramatic purpose and the bloated film is a good deal longer than it needs to be.
The is just like the old gangster movies of yore, the endings just seem too unbelievable to what was shown before. And just like that you get a mediocre movie.

AMAZIING!!!.......2005-12-06

This movie is absolutely incredible,(espeecially for a "spike Lee joint"!). WATCH THIS MOVIE!!! If you like commercial hollywood cinema you probably won't like this film, but this is truly quality filmaking. The movie just flows. The best thing about the movie is the acting! Absolutely incredible! MEKHI PHIFER's performance is the best I have ever seen (along with Derek Luke in Antwone Fisher)- Performance of a lifetime, his facial expressions are priceless! If you don't end up liking this movie then you don't appreciate good acting. The cinematography is also beautiful. The film is not overly moralistic, nor preachy or patronising like most of Spike Lee's work tends to be. THIS IS A WORK OF ART!

"You are sellin' your own people death!".......2005-02-18

"Clockers"(1995) really blind-sided me.

Spike Lee can't necessarily claim to be the most subtle filmmaker, in fact he seems dead-set on attaining and retaining the title of "auteur," taking that extra step to inform the viewer that it is *indeed* a Spike Lee "joint." Fans of his films know exactly what I mean. And, of course, his showmanship is evident. But collaborating with famed novelist Richard Price for a gritty indictment of black-on-black crime, the inner-city crack plague, and the oddly symbiotic relationship among drug-dealers and police in the Brooklyn Projects, has resulted in (if not his best, then) certainly his most mature film to date.

Listen, I like Spike, I've kept up with every movie of his so far, excluding "She Hate Me". But even a seasoned veteran such as he can get better with literary influence. So much so, that the story in "Clockers" completely overrides Spike's typically gimmicky visual tricks and (this is why I'm most proud of this film) his unabashed preachiness he seems to need to constantly insert in his projects. The biting dialogue is there: "Black man say he didn't do sun-in, you don't believe him. Black man say he DID do sun-in, you still don't believe him." However, Lee manages these thematics seamlessly into the plot's progression with a curious mixture of intuition and force.

Lee shifts the focus of Price's novel from Rocco to Strike, a young African-American "clocker" (round-the-clock crack dealer) looking to rise in the drug-trade ranks, run by his makeshift mentor Rodney Little (a blistering, cunning performance by Delroy Lindo). Rodney -- persuasive as all hell -- asks/tells Strike to off a worker in a fast-food restaurant for limiting Rodney's dealing options. Hours later, the guy is dead but the crime is not shown. When Strike's older brother Victor (Isaiah Washington) confesses to police, hardened Detective Rocco Klein (suitably dependable Harvey Keitel) doesn't buy it and begins to suspect Strike instead.

As the investigation deepens, unexpected character traits emerge. Strike -- initially seeming hard, ignorant, and aimless -- actually wears that very facade to mask the fact he's really a scared kid unsure of a future. This fear and stress that accompanies his job has manifested physically as a bad stomach ulcer that makes him double over and expel blood through the latter half of the film. Victor -- the apparently virtuous, job-holding, mannerly, father-of-two -- eventually reveals a dangerous level of resentment and hatred buried deep but slowly working its way to the surface.

The "homo-cide" squad are first portrayed as racist, uncaring kingpins -- not too unlike Rodney -- that laugh and joke over bodies at the crime scene. Then Rocco and his team (John Turturro and Michael Imperioli) make unexpected business deals with Strike involving crackdowns and kickbacks. Most revealing (and rather humorous) is that the large number of customers for crack in the housing project are middle-class or affluent white people.

What separates this "hood movie" from the majority are the contradictory surprises. Unexpected, yet certainly believable. Without giving spoilers, Strike's saving grace ends up being the police he always tries to avoid. He even asks Rocco (in what I believed would be the film's disastrous downfall) what made him care about some random "nigga killing," and I was ready for Spike to throw the whole flick away on Keitel's response... The response given is one of the most honest, heartbreaking, and realistic lines of screenwriting I've come across yet. Bravo, Price and Lee.

Accolades to the soundtrack. This is one of the smartest batch of tracks Lee has assembled for a film of his, and they enunciate the dreaded and narrow confines of inner-city life without drowning you in third-rate gangsta rap. In fact, all the hip-hop tracks (especially KRS-ONE's "Outta Here") are spot on the emotion in whichever scene they are played. Even the softer original tracks (Chaka Khan, Des'ree, Seal) have a gentle nobility that doesn't pander to the R&B crowd. Terence Blanchard's orchestral/jazz score achieves several great moments of genuine woe and remorse.

I find "Clockers" to be an inquisitive, audacious and Soulful piece of filmmaking. The way in which it overlaps disheartening despair, humor-within-ignorance, poignant community drama, characters that expertly shred stereotype, and a genuine glimpse of hope is a masterful feat in any regard. It's a courageous move to make when your questions don't come with answers. What is offered is the possibility of an answer, an elaborately simple one. I expected an inner-city detective thriller but walked away with a gripping emotional maelstrom that honestly reaches the level of overwhelming. Very long story short, "Clockers" is the film that I was waiting for Spike Lee to make, because I knew he had it in him. I praise and commend this achievement, Mars. Anyone interested in a drastically good film ought to hit this joint.

The DVD is barebones: trailer, production notes, bios. But the price is worth it to see DP Malik Sayeed's stark and immediate photography in the theatrical 1.85:1 ratio, and crystal clear. Decent 5.1 sound mix, as well: the music is allowed to shine.

NO MORE PACKING

CLASSIC GANGSTA MOVIE; 4.5 STARS.......2004-08-18

A DRUG DEALER IS MURDERED IN A RESTERAUNT ONE NIGHT AND THE DETECTIVE ON THE CASE [PLAYED BY THE GREAT HARVEY KEITEL] DOESN'T BELIEVE THE MAN WHO CONFESSED TO IT IS REALLY GUILTY. HE THINKS HIS BROTHER [MEKHI PHIFER, IN HIS FILM DEBUT] IS THE ONE THAT'S REALLY GUILTY. THIS WAS A VERY WELL ACTED MOVIE AND UNLIKE MANY OTHER GANGSTA MOVIES, THIS IS SHORT ON VIOLENCE! THIS IS THE KIND OF GANGSTA MOVIE THAT MAKES YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON AND WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN NEXT. A VERY GOOD MOVIE FROM SPIKE LEE.

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Another pretty good urban drama.
A low-budget, black GOODFELLAS. Unoriginal, but entertaining.
Straight Gangsta
Not the Average "Gangsta" Film
A Hidden Gem, a must see!

Bluehill Avenue
Starring: W.B. Alexander , Dana Bair , Angelle Brooks , Percy Daggs III , and Andrew Divoff
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
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ASIN: B0000JBUHI
Release Date: 2003-12-23

Product Description

Growing up in the rough Roxbury neighborhood in Boston, four childhood friends find their dreams come true too easily, and too quickly, through dealing drugs... but the repercussions are deadly.

Features:

Full Screen Version
Deleted Scenes with Commentary
Audio Commentary with Craig Ross, Jr., Director; William L. Johnson (E-Bone); Aaron D. Spears (Money)
Behind-the-Scenes/Final Shot Comparisons
The "Blue Hill" Interview
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Run Time: 120 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

Another pretty good urban drama........2007-07-03

Allen Payne did a pretty good job playing a hit man slash drug dealer in this urban drama 21st century classic. Even though he'll mostly be remembered for his roles in such films as "New Jack City and Jason's Lyric", he still showed a little bit of more range as an actor in this film. I was pretty pleased with this movie and i personally think it is worth having in one's archives.

A low-budget, black GOODFELLAS. Unoriginal, but entertaining........2007-03-09

Director Craig Ross seems inspired by Martin Scorsese. As in GOODFELLAS and CASINO, Ross's BLUEHILL AVENUE charts the rise and fall of gansters. Ross also uses similar filmic techniques. He introduces many peripheral characters, panning over them as they work in their growing drug trade; a voice-over explains in detail each person's role in the crime operation. And it's a long film, epic length at 127 minutes.

BLUEHILL AVENUE is low budget, and it shows. The art direction and special effects aren't as "big" as in CASINO. Yet despite its smallness, BLUEHILL AVENUE isn't shabby. The acting is first rate. The writing is sharp. The cinematography is moody and textured. This is no direct-to-video cheapie with bad acting and flat lighting.

The film lost me in some places, mostly where it seemed torn between a gritty realism and hyper-stylized violence. For instance, much of the film opts for the gritty realism of a Scorsese film. But then there's a shootout, and BLUEHILL AVENUE forgets its realism, opting instead for a hyper-stylized battle where the outnumbered "good guys" are ambushed and outgunned, yet still manage to kill all the baddies, without suffering even a flesh wound.

That sort of fantasy shootout may work for Shaft or James Bond, but it undermines the realism that BLUEHILL AVENUE had set up.

This is a guy's film. Despite her prominent billing, Angelle Brooks's role is minor. Mostly she worries about her hubby, and nags him to quick the gang.

BLUEHILL AVENUE is not a great film, and certainly not original. At times its sharp dialog verges on the cliche. Yet it's a well made film, polished and entertaining.

Straight Gangsta.......2006-10-04

This movie was off the hook. It's like a gangsta story and a coming of age story combined. The first time I saw it I caught it in the middle, but it still caught my attention. It the story of 4 friends and their rise to power as crack kingpins in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury. Along the way they face family crisis, crooked police and rivial gangs. The ending wasn't picture perfect, but it still was good. You just got see it for yourself to find out.

Not the Average "Gangsta" Film.......2006-06-02

When I first saw this, I must admit, I was skeptical. My first impression was oh boy, here we go again, another bad black film where all the characters are overdone and kill each other....but after someone talked me into giving it a chance, I was floored. This movie, honestly, is on the same level of Goodfellas and Boyz in tha Hood. The fact that you watch the characters come into that lifestyle from childhood, watch the connections that were made, and see the downfall was so real to me I wanted to cry when everything started going bad. I've seen that life, been part of it, and most movies in Hollywood don't get it right on film. This was one of the films that I would recommend to anyone who wants to see what it's like to become a true "dopeboy."

The most moving part of the film for me was when the main character sees his sister after she disappeared and what his parents said to him. This story happens everyday in the streets, and I loved watching it come to light.

A Hidden Gem, a must see!.......2006-04-20

Honestly, I had never heard of this movie until I came across it at the video store. Allen Payne (New Jack City and Jason's Lyric fame) definitely shines as the leading man in this gritty urban film about friendship, trust, loyalty and the price of betrayal. Clarence Williams III and William Forsythe add remarkably to the film and it's content.

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truthful and memorable
BT
So horrible it's funny
So bad I can't stop watching.

Crack House
Starring: Jim Brown , Anthony Geary , Richard Roundtree , Cheryl Kay , and Angel Tompkins
Director: Michael Fischa
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ASIN: B0006TPDQ6
Release Date: 2005-03-22

Description

Jim Brown (Original Gangstas), Anthony Geary ("General Hospital") and Richard Roundtree (Shaft) star in this gripping and gritty film that rips the lid off the savage world of LA's gangs to tell the touching, explosive story of two teenage lovers whose dream turns into a nightmare. Rick and Melissa have goals beyond their brutal neighborhood, but when his cousin is killedin a gang fight and Rick is jailed for retaliating, Melissa is left to fend for herself among the beasts who rule the streets. Automatic assault rifles blaze between rival gangs as she becomes a virtual prisoner of a drug king (Brown) and descends into the hell of crack addiction. There's only one way for Rick to get out of jail and save her but for Melissa, he will undertake the ultimate risk!

Customer Reviews:

truthful and memorable.......2005-11-03

when i first saw this movie i didn't know what to think of it.
i didn't know it was about crack, i didn't even know what crack
was. i was in junior high when i first saw this movie so i was
a little nieve about some things but when i saw this movie i understood what people were talking about when they said that drugs were bad. i think this movie should be showen in schools
at lease junior high and high school because there are kids who
are doing drugs and they should see this movie so they could know that crack and any other drug isn't cool.
i had a friend in junior high who said she tried crack and i think if she had seen this movie she wouldn't have done it. when
i see this movie i often think about her and wonder if she is still doing it. i am glad that some one was brave enough to make
a movie like this because people need to see what crack is all about and then maybe they wouldn't do it or if they are already
doing it then they will go get help to get off of it. who ever
doesn't like this movie is crazy because it's true, this stuff is really happening to teenagers and adults out there and people
need to see what it is doing to people. i know people would say
that it's not a good thing to be showing this movie in schools because of the nudity and bad language but i think if they showed this in junior high and high school's no teenager will ever try crack.

BT.......2002-12-17

I saw this movie and it was horrible, but the spell of the plot kept you watching no matter how much you wanted to turn. they have picked a perfect title for this movie because one glimpse of this flick, you are hooked. The movie, itself is only two stars,but the way they keep you in the movie gives it a five.

So horrible it's funny.......2002-03-25

I saw this movie late at night at a friend's house. Imagine every single stereotype about drugs you've ever heard wrapped up into a low-budget flick. This is that movie. It's so bad it's hillarious. The lingo is great, too. This movie has great kitsch value, and would be a great thing to watch while you're sitting around with your friends, smoking a blunt or drinking. It's definitely entertaining, but only because it's so bad.

So bad I can't stop watching........2000-07-14

Have you ever seen a movie so sorry that you actually get a kick out of watching it over and over? Well that's what you get with this one. There was no real plot and many of the sequences were so stupid they were almost unreal. How can the police buy drugs from a crack house, letting them know what's going on, yet they can't bust in until the exchange is made with the supplier? Ahhhh Hollywood. Dialogue? Forget it. Take away the F word and half the script is gone. Feminists would have a field day with the misogyny in this film, with scenes like Annie being raped, Melissa being pushed into a scalding shower naked and when BT takes advantage of a drug dazed Melissa. In spite of it I find myself watching it again and again for kicks, like video junk food.

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Black Saturday
Starring: Swanier , and Anders
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Brilliantly uncomfortable.

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Starring: Angela Benjamin , Akasha Sjolin , Jeffrey Charlton , Thomas Alan Beckett , and Robert Owen (IV)
Director: Randy Hill , and James Bickert
Manufacturer: Troma
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ASIN: B000CSUNNY
Release Date: 2006-03-07

Description

A drug addict gives birth to a premature crack baby and abandons it in a dumpster. Helpless and left for dead, the dumpster baby begins a surreal journey as it encounters a wide array of bizarre characters, including an adulterous surgeon, a vicious street pimp, a mentally handicapped garbage man and a crack-addled hooker with a heart of gold. A modern grindhouse classic in the tradition of "Street Trash" and "Saw".

Customer Reviews:

Brilliantly uncomfortable........2006-09-05

Brilliantly uncomfortable.

An unwanted baby that is disposed of by placing it in a dumpster is a superb metaphor for the kind of world most kids are born into these days. As we follow the baby through various circumstances as it goes from hand to hand, we see more and more of this dumpster of a world we live in.
This film is dark, depressing and uses a palette that beautifully illustrates it's story and message. It is made on a low budget, but Dumpster Baby is one of those movies that show that not only no unlimited amount of money is needed to make a great film, but that the lack of it actually adds to the gritty atmosphere it wants to capture (a message maestro Mario Bava already understood perfectly, often handing films in under budget, because not all of the cash was needed to make a fine product). No CGI-effects could ever recreate this kind of realism. I have read about the bad sound the film is supposed to have. OK, admitted, it is not quite 5-channel ultra-dolby mix that we get here, but as with the murky atmosophere that the cameras captured so magnificently, the sometimes hard to follow mumblings the people speak to each other add a fitting non-communicational loneliness to the lives of those we follow.
Highly original, extremely hard-hitting and rather uncomfortable. In other words: a poetic masterpiece, a must-see and a must-have.

ABC News Nightline The Badlands: North Philadelphia

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ABC News Nightline The Badlands: North Philadelphia

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My colleagues and I have seen a lot of what drugs can do to a neighborhood and to the people who live there. We have never seen anything quite as bad as the section of north Philadelphia. Almost everything about this part of town is cheap, sleazy, decaying and sad. It is an overripe cliche, down to the name the residents have given their neighborhood: the Badlands. It is the worst of what happens when the drug trade takes over a house, and then a street, and then a block. It's as invasive as crabgrass, as destructive as cancer." - Ted Koppel But how does it get started, and what happens to people in the neighborhood who want to keep the disease from spreading to their block? In this Nightline special, people are sometimes breathtakingly candid about what's happening to them and their families. One of the heroin addicts, a man who goes by the street name of 'Tombstone,' suggested that what's missing these days is a sense of shame."

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Waste of Time
Hilarious but dont hipe your self up
Hillarious

Bling Bling: Bling-A-Long
Starring: Bling Bling
Manufacturer: Indecline
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ASIN: B0007GP68S
Release Date: 2005-03-01

Customer Reviews:

Waste of Time.......2007-04-30

Even for the fans of indecline, this is a waste of time and money. Nothing really funny or entertaining in this debacle that ends with bling bling selling his million-dollar movie rights for ONE hit of crack.

Hilarious but dont hipe your self up.......2007-04-17

Yes, this movie is absolty hilarious and in some parts made me cry laughing but not every part some of bad parts arnt boring to say but just not funny or really taht entertaining you keep wanting to watch to see what happns next but thats it...DeFINATLY worth seeing though absoltly hilaious besides some of the overly gross things and not that funny parts...see it.

Hillarious.......2005-06-29

After seeing these guy's self titled dvd, i purchased this one.
This is distirbingly hillarious!!!! Its basically a freakish documentary/music video journey of a crack head from las vegas. He smokes more crack than you can imagine, gets into trouble and makes you laugh your face off!

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Crack!
Director: Darryl James
Manufacturer: Tenacious Entertainment
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ASIN: B000FA5EUQ
Release Date: 2006-03-29

Description

Crack! is a mini-documentary (Documini), looking at the style of showing flesh through cracks in clothing. Those cracks in clothing reveal sexy midriff, but unfortunately, they also reveal flab leaking out of the cracks, and in some cases, even butt cleavage. Crack! is the first in a series of Documinis from Darryl James and Tenacious Entertainment, leading to the full-length motion picture "Detective's Affair," based on the first novel from Darryl James (Moseley). The DVD for Crack! also contains music from the Documini, created by Darryl James.

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