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Dead Presidents (DVD, 1998) 
Dead Presidents (DVD, 1998)

 
Dead Presidents (DVD, 1998)

Leading Role: Larenz Tate
Rating: Rated R
Release Date: May 1998
Format: DVD
UPC: 717951000392
Product ID: EPID3244571
Description: A young black man from Brooklyn leaves his girlfriend and his numbers-running mentor to fight in Vietnam in 1968 only to return three years later to find no welcome and little hope for him and his buddies. Unemployed and desperate, he p...
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Movie Description
A young black man from Brooklyn leaves his girlfriend and his numbers-running mentor to fight in Vietnam in 1968 only to return three years later to find no welcome and little hope for him and his buddies. Unemployed and desperate, he plans and executes an armored car robbery to secure enough "dead presidents" (slang for cash) to give him a fresh start.

Credits
Cast:Bokeem Woodbine, Chris Tucker, Clifton Powell, N'Bushe Wright

Details
Sound:HiFi Sound, Stereo Sound, Surround Sound

Notes
An Underworld Entertainment production.

Color by Technicolor; shot in Panavision widescreen.

Screened at the 1995 New York Film Festival.

Released theatrically in the USA on October 4, 1995,the film went on to gross $24.1 million at the domestic box office.

The Criterion Collection Special Edition laserdisc (CC1453L) includes:
    Commentary by the Hughes brothers, Professor Todd Boyd,
    and Ari Merretazon
    Deleted scenes and theatrical trailers
    "The Making of Dead Presidents"
    Dr. Boyd's guide to blaxploitation films
    An epilogue to the story: "What Happened to the Real
    Anthony" by Ari Merretazon

This film was inspired by Wallace Terry's story "Specialist
No. 4 Haywood T. 'The Kid' Kirkland"

Rated BBFC 18 by the British Board of Film Classification., DVD Features:

Region 1 encoding
Keep Case
Chapter Search

Editorial Reviews
"...An exceptionally assured piece of work....Plays like THE DEERHUNTER N THE HOOD..." -- Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly - p.85 - Steve Simels (07/19/1996)

"...Mesmerizing....[The film has] one of the year's great movie scenes..."
USA Today - p.6D - Mike Clark

"...Its muscular engagement of weighty themes and explosive situations makes it a powerful drama..."
Variety - Todd McCarthy (10/02/1995)

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