New Jack City
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New Jack City is a 1991 crime-thriller film about a crime lord who ascends to power and becomes megamanical while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.
- Directed by Mario Van Peebles. Written by Thomas Lee Wright and w:Barry Michael Cooper.
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Nino Brown
- Sit your five-dollar ass down before I make change.
- Am I my brother's keeper? Yes I am.
- Money talks, and bullshit runs a marathon. So, see ya and I wouldn't want to be ya.
- You gotta rob to get rich in the Reagan era.
- [testifying in court] I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Columbian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during the prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: Ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.
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Nick Peretti
- Drugs ain't a black thing, or a white thing. It's a death thing. Death don't give a shit about color.
- Is this one of those black things?
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Gee Money
- I had my jimmy whacked every day!
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Scotty Appleton
- I wanna shoot you so bad, my dick's hard!
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Pookie
- They got that shit hooked up like Mission Impossible, man!
- (sobbing) I tried to kick... but that shit just be callin' me man, it be callin' me, man... I just got to go to it!
- (Pooky describing a room used for freebasing) They call it the "Enterprise Room", man, because it's for people who wanna be beamed up to Scotty.
- [as Pooky peers into camera in despair] Scottie, help me - I'm gonna die!
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Old Man
- (last lines) Idolater! Your soul is required in hell! [shoots and kills Nino]
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Taglines
- They're a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime.
- Where survival depends on friends, trust and power... An organized crime family out to run this city is up against cops who knows its streets.
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Cast
- Wesley Snipes - Nino Brown
- Ice T - Scotty Appleton
- Allen Payne - Gee Money
- Chris Rock - Pookie
- Judd Nelson - Nick Peretti
- Mario Van Peebles - Stone
- Michael Michele - Selina
- Bill Nunn - Duh Duh Duh Man
- Russell Wong - Park
- Bill Cobbs - Old man
- Christopher Williams - Kareem Akbar
- Vanessa Williams - Keisha
- Tracy Camilla Johns - Uniqua
- Anthony DeSando - Frankie Needles
- John Aprea - Don Armeteo
- Fab Five Freddy - Master of Ceremonies
- Flavor Flav - D.J.
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See also
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External links
- New Jack City quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- New Jack City at Rotten Tomatoes
