Hoodlum
| Year: | 1997 |
| Production Co: | United Artists |
| Studio: | MGM |
| Director: | Bill Duke |
| Producer: | Frank Mancuso Jr |
| 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.
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.