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Straight Out of Brooklyn

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Straight Out of Brooklyn
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1hr 31min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1991
Director:
Matty Rich
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Lawrence Gilliard, Jr., George T. Odom, Ann D. Sanders  ...more
Synopsis: Matty Rich's Straight out of Brooklyn is an unflinching portrait of an African-American family struggling to survive in a Brooklyn housing project. The family's oldest son (Lawrence Gilliard Jr.) decides that the easiest way to get his family out of the projects is by robbing a local drug dealer, but that plan turns disastrous when the pusher and his gang track the boy and his family down. Rich was only 19 years old at the time he wrote and directed Straight out of Brooklyn (he also appears as Larry ... Full Synopsis
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Derek Armstrong, AMG Review
As powerful as contemporary inner-city films such as Do the Right Thing and Boyz N the Hood were, the tale of hopelessness in the projects feels even more achingly real on a lower budget. Such is Straight Out of Brooklyn, the remarkable debut from teenage writer/director Matty Rich, so gritty that it looks like a documentary. Shot on a shoestring with a cast of all first-time actors, including the ... Full Review
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Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.
Dennis Brown
George T. Odom
Ray Brown
Ann D. Sanders
Frankie Brown
Barbara Sanon
Carolyn Brown
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