Sucker Free City

Sucker Free City

ON THESE STREETS, EVERYBODY'S GOT A GANG

2004 · 113 min · ★ 5.9 · Drama, TV Movie, Crime

The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on the side. K-Luv (Mackie) is a member of the "V-Dubs", an African-American street gang. Lincoln (Leung) is a rising figure in the Chinese mafia. Gentrification forces Nick's family to move out of their home in the Mission District into Hunter's Point where they are harassed by the V-Dubs. K-Luv's side business of selling bootleg compact discs leads him to enlist Nick's help to bootleg CDs and to negotiate a truce with Lincoln. Lincoln conducts an affair with his boss' daughter Angela (Carpio), a Stanford student engaged to a medical student classmate.

Directed by Spike Lee · Written by Alex Tse

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Ben Crowley Nick Wade
Ken Leung Lincoln Ma
Anthony Mackie K-Luv
Darris Love Sleepy
Laura Allen Samantha Wade
T.V. Carpio Angela Tsing
Kathy Baker Cleo Wade
James Hong Kwok
Lamont Bentley Ahmir
Ewan Chung Edwin Leong
Omari Hardwick Dante Ponce
Marguerite Moreau Jessica Epstein

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