Hoodlum
Cast: | Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia, Tim Roth, Chi McBride, William Atherton, Queen Latifah |
It looked like a hip-hoppin', gang-bangin' action film somewhere around
Harlem Nights, but it was actually a quite detailed and in-depth look at the subculture of numbers-runners, streetside peddlars and other petty crims of the dandy era.
Fishburne leads an impressive cast in a fairly sprawling drama with flashes of action and intrigue in what should have been a little better received than I remember it being, and he's still one black actor who never falls back on black stereotypes. Based in part on real life crime figures like Dutch Schultz and Lucky Luciano.