Critics' Reviews
Trailers &
Clips
Photos
News
Showtimes &
Tickets

Slam

:

Overview

Slam
Critics' Rating:
Avg. User Rating:
5 ratings
Your Rating:
write a review
R,1hr 40min
Genre:
Released:
October 9, 1998
Director:
Distributor:
Trimark
Synopsis: Filmmaker Marc Levin, known for his documentaries exploring prison life, drug addiction, and street gangs, won the 1998 Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize when he made his feature dramatic directorial debut with this downbeat prison drama about a black poet jailed on minor drug charges. At "Dodge City," a Washington, D.C., housing project, streetwise Ray Joshua (Saul Williams), a marijuana dealer who writes poetry, sees his drug connection gunned down, winds up busted as a murder suspect, and ... Full Synopsis
Featured Cast
Ray Joshua
Lauren Bell
Similar Movies
Juice (1992) Right On!: Poetry on Film (1970) Rockers (1978) Short Eyes (1977) Love Jones (1997) The Eel (1998)
advertisement