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New Jack City

Year:

1991

Duration:

97 min | UK:101 min

Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.6

Director:

Mario Van Peebles

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1991-03-08

Filming Locations: Grant's Tomb - 122th Street & Riverside Drive, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Earnings

Budget: $8,500,000

Opening Weekend: $7,039,622 (USA) (10 March 1991)

Gross: $47,624,253 (USA) Rentals $22,000,000 (USA)

Cast

Actor

Character

Wesley Snipes

Nino Brown

Ice-T

Scotty Appleton

Allen Payne

Gee Money

Chris Rock

Pookie

Mario Van Peebles

Stone

Michael Michele

Selina

Bill Nunn

Duh Duh Duh Man

Russell Wong

Park

Bill Cobbs

Old Man

Christopher Williams

Kareem Akbar

Judd Nelson

Nick Peretti

Vanessa Williams

Keisha

Tracy Camilla Johns

Uniqua

Anthony DeSando

Frankie Needles

Nick Ashford

Reverend Oates

Phyllis Yvonne Stickney

Prosecuting Attorney Hawkins

Thalmus Rasulala

Police Commissioner

John Aprea

Don Armeteo

Fab 5 Freddy

Master of Ceremonies

Flavor Flav

D.J.

Clebert Ford

Frazier

Laverne Hart

Prom Queen

Eek-A-Mouse

Fat Smitty

Gregg Smrz

Biff

Erica McFarquhar

Teacher

Keith Sweat

Singer at Wedding

Max Rabinowitz

Gigantor

Marcella Lowery

Woman in Hallway

Manuel E. Santiago

Judge

Ben Gotlieb

Prosecuting Attorney

Thelma Louise Carter

Reporter

Linda Froehlich

Reporter

Christopher Michael

Bailiff

Tiger Frederick

Basketball Player

Rynel Johnson

Basketball Player

Kelly Jo Minter

Recovering Addict

Tina Lifford

Recovering Addict

Paul Raczkowski

Recovering Addict

Erik Kilpatrick

Recovering Addict

Harold Baines

Kid on Stoop

Sekou Campbell

Kid on Stoop

David Michael Golson

Kid on Stoop

Garvin Holder

Kid on Stoop

Leo O'Brien

Kid on Stoop

Bobby Stancil

Kid on Stoop

Teddy Riley

New Year's Eve Band - (Guy)

Aaron Hall

New Year's Eve Band - (Guy)

Damien Hall

New Year's Eve Band - (Guy)

Rodney Benford

Singers - Spring - (Troop)

John Harreld

Singers - Spring - (Troop)

Allen McNeil

Singers - Spring - (Troop)

Steve Russell

Singers - Spring - (Troop)

Reggie Warren

Singers - Spring - (Troop)

Gerald Levert

Singers - Winter - (Levert)

Sean Levert

Singers - Winter - (Levert)

Marc Gordon

Singers - Winter - (Levert)

Akosua Busia

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Lia Chang

Scotty's Girl (uncredited)

Larry M. Cherry

Barber (uncredited)

Toni Ann Johnson

Girl in the Window (uncredited)

Cinti Laird

Brides Maid of Honor at Wedding Reception (uncredited)

Jake LaMotta

Gangster standing at bar. (uncredited)

Ron Millkie

Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)

Chris Thornton

C.M.B. Member (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Ice-T almost refused the role as Scottie because he felt that if the film was a failure it would negatively affect his rap career. During an interview with MTV's Kurt Loder back in 1990, Ice T stated to Loder that he hated the police due to his past connection with the Crips. However, not only was the film a hit, but it also proved to give him his huge break as an actor.

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Story is largely based on a real-life Detroit gang known as The Chambers Brothers. Writer Barry Michael Cooper got the idea for the film after visiting Detroit and learning about the gang's exploits.

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Film debut of Vanessa Williams.

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Goofs

When the CMB is taking over the Carter Projects by force, the man who gets shot by an Uzi-toting thug while defending his family has holes and blood on his back before the sound of the gunfire is heard.

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When Duh Duh Duh Man Is holding the guy off the bridge in the beginning you can hear the helicopter that is filming the scene.

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Just before Nino's meeting with Frankie Needles, he's talking on the phone about taking over the Carter apartments but he had already done that in the beginning of the movie.

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Quotes

Pooky: They got that shit hooked up like Mission Impossible, man!

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Scotty Appleton: Man a drug dealer is the worst kind of brother. I mean, he won't sell it to his sister. He won't sell it to his mother, but he'll sell it to one a his boys on the street.

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Nino Brown: You're incapable of running this city. *Sit* your five-dollar ass down before I make change.

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