Stretch reluctantly agrees to join him for detox, and so begins a series of misadventures as the duo’s desire to get clean on the city’s dime keeps hitting hilarious and often harrowing bureaucratic walls. Spoon decides that it’s time to kick heroin. The three live together, share food, drugs, sex and a mutual affection that deepens when Cookie ODs on New Year’s Eve and is hospitalized. That’s Spoon on bass Stretch, played with rude exuberance by Tim Roth, on keyboards and Cookie – a fine, frisky Thandie Newton – speaking poetry onstage. Though Gridlock’d is fiercely funny and sometimes just as fiercely violent, Curtis-Hall permits Shakur to play a grownup instead of a boy in the hood.Īs Spoon, Shakur is one third of a luckless trio of performance artists who work fringe clubs in Manhattan. The film marks the feature writing and directing debut of actor Vondie Curtis-Hall, of TV’s Chicago Hope. What people remember is the way he dissed Janet Jackson as a “crazy black feminist bitch.” It’s the stereotypes that stick.
His first line in Juice is, “Good morning, grandma.” What people remember him saying is, “Don’t nobody fuck with me.” In John Singleton’s flawed but ambitious Poetic Justice, he delivers mail – a job that he hates and that keeps him from his gang – to earn enough money to rescue his daughter from her freebasing mother. In Ernest Dickerson’s Juice he went gonzo with a handgun, but not before he tried to mend some dangerously frayed family ties. A closer look at Shakur onscreen reveals an actor of subtlety and substance. Hitting the Road for the Holidays? Here's Where to Find KN95 Masks for Travel The rap on Pac was that he made a great screen threat. Ironically, the only critical juice that Shakur ever collected on film, and that includes Poetic Justice (1993) and Above the Rim (1994), was gang related. The film is a comedy, the first in a six-film career of gritty urban dramas that began in 1992 with his bad-teen role in Juice and will end in the fall of 1997 with his bad-cop role in Gang Related, which wrapped just a week before Shakur was gunned down in a Las Vegas drive-by, on Sept. 18 at the esteemed Sundance Film Festival and features Shakur’s best and most appealing performance. Exploitation? You bet.Ĭut some slack to Gridlock’d, which premiered on Jan. Once deemed un-releasable, Bullet goes directly to video on Jan. Then there’s Bullet, a 1994 actioner with Shakur and Mr. His posthumous rap album, The Don Killuminati, is still charting books and films about his thug life and murder, at 25, are in the works and his penultimate movie, Gridlock’d, is out for the new year. Editor Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised Shakur's performance, saying: "He played this part with an appealing mix of presence, confidence and humor".Tupac Shakur is dead and in demand.
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The movie gained positive reviews from critics and holds a 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie paid tribute to star Tupac Shakur, who was murdered four months before the release of the movie. Gridlock'd was released on January 31, 1997. It was directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall and was produced by Damian Jones, Paul Webster, and Erica Huggins. Gridlock'd is a 1997 American crime thriller comedy-drama movie set in Detroit.
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