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New Jack City is a 1991 American neo-noir gangster film directed by Mario Van Peebles and written by Thomas Lee Wright and Barry Michael Cooper, based on a story by Wright. The film stars Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Judd Nelson, Bill Cobbs, Bill Nunn, and Van Peebles. Its plot follows Nino Brown, a drug lord in New York City during the crack epidemic, and Scotty Appleton, a New York City Police…
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When onscreen depictions of War On Drugs become topic of conversation, most people take television shows like *The Wire* or *Narcos* as example. However, there are also feature films that not only took that dark subject, but also managed to comprehensively depict many of it aspects, as well as the toll it had on its victims. Some of them were also so successful that they have set the trends for Hollywood in next dec…More
