Midweek Movie - Dead Presidents ( 1995 )

Dead Presidents  

The Hughes Brothers... ambitious look at the social and political lives of the African-American community in the late 1960s and early 1970s. After their striking debut Menace II Society.

Released: 1995

Runtime:  119 min

Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes (The Hughes Brothers)

Writers: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes

Starring: Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Rose Jackson, Clifton Powell, Terrence Howard, okeem Woodbine…

1973 Ford F-350 

1968 Cadillac Sedan DeVille - 1969 Plymouth Satellite

1962 Checker Taxicab

1970 Chevrolet Impala

1961 Grumman-Olson Kurb Side, 1968 Buick Skylark, 1972 Ford Econoline

1972 Plymouth Fury 

1979 International Harvester S-Series

Storyline...

Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate) is a young man coming of age in the Bronx in 1968. Working two part-time jobs, one as a milkman's helper and another for local numbers runner Kirby (Keith David)

Anthony is torn between doing the right thing and trying to get by in a environment that offers few opportunities to young black men.

After graduating from high school, Anthony decides to join the Marines, not well-received by his parents, who want him to go to college and his girlfriend Juanita (Rose Jackson), with whom Anthony recently lost his virginity.

After serving a horrific tour of duty in Viet Nam with his friends Skip (Chris Tucker) and Jose (Freddy Rodriguez), Anthony finds himself back home in 1973, where Juanita has been raising the child he fathered before he shipped out, drugs and crime have crippled his community, honest job prospects are practically nil.

Eventually, Anthony falls in with Kirby, Skip, and Jose, who have teamed with Juanita's sister Delilah (N'Bushe Wright), a Black Power activist, and Cleon (Bokeem Woodbine), in a scheme to rob an armored truck taking worn greenbacks ("Dead presidents") to a mint to be destroyed. 

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