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Synopsis
Based on Richard Price's grim best-seller, and directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay co-written with Price, Clockers takes the structure of a police procedural to build a chilling portrait of despair, hope, and the unanswered problem of black-on-black crime in an urban housing project. The film's haunting themes are vividly visualized during the opening credits, which run over police photos of dead young black men, shot and sprawled on sidewalks, in streets, and hanging over fences. Strike (Mekhi Phifer) is a 19-year-old African-American "clocker" -- the lowest link on the drug dealing chain -- who hangs around park benches and street corners selling small amounts of druges at all hours of the day. Strike drinks chocolate milk to soothe an ulcer and plays with model trains in his apartment, dreaming of a way out of his dead-end life. Drug kingpin Rodney (Delroy Lindo) asks Strike to kill another clocker, Darryl, for skimming money, saying that this will be Strike's ticket to a higher post in Rodney's organization. Darryl is indeed shot, and suspicion immediately falls on Strike, but a weary cop named Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel) thinks there's more to the case. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide

Cast

Keith David Andre the Giant
Harvey Keitel Rocco Klein
Delroy Lindo Rodney Little
John Turturro Larry Mazilli
Isaiah Washington Victor
Mekhi Phifer Strike

Production Crew

Ina Mayhew Art Director
Thomas Warren Art Director
Thomas Warren Art Director
Richard Price Book Author
Robi Reed-Humes Casting
Malik Hassan Sayeed Cinematographer
Richard Price Co-producer
Terence Blanchard Composer (Music Score)
Ruth E. Carter Costume Designer
Danielle Hollowell Costumes Assistant
Spike Lee Director
Sam Pollard Editor
Rosalie Swedlin Executive Producer
John Lyons First Assistant Director
Mike Ellis First Assistant Director
Diane Hammond Makeup
Jon Kilik Producer
Martin Scorsese Producer
Monty Ross Producer
Spike Lee Producer
Andrew McAlpine Production Designer
Richard Price Production Secretary
Richard Price Screenwriter
Spike Lee Screenwriter
Debra Schutt Set Decorator
Skip Lievsay Set Designer
Terence Blanchard Songwriter
Steve Kirshoff Special Effects
Tom Warren Supervising Art Director
Year: 1995
Runtime: 128
Country: USA
MPAA Rating: R
for strong graphic violence, strong language and drug content
Category: Feature

Genre
Drama

Produced by
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Mule Filmworks
Universal

Release
by Universal