New Jack City is a 1991 American crime action film directed by Mario Van Peebles (in his feature film directorial debut) and written by Thomas Lee Wright and Barry Michael Cooper, based on …

New Jack City: Directed by Mario Van Peebles. With Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock. A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police …

Two streetwise cops embark on the riskiest mission of their careers when they go undercover to bust a ruthless drug kingpin reigning over Harlem.

A modern-day crime epic focusing on the efforts of two unorthodox police officers to bring down a drug gang at the height of New York City's crack cocaine epidemic of 10 years ago. The film …

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Mar 8, 1991 · Purchase New Jack City on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Wesley Snipes stars in this hard-edged film based on a frightening true world as Nino Brown, an …

Jan 23, 2025 · “New Jack City” grossed nearly $50 million at the domestic box office and helped set the stage for more films about inner-city life featuring rappers in lead roles, Times critic …

1 day ago · But it was his directorial debut with New Jack City (1991) that placed Van Peebles at the helm of New Black Realist cinema. With its gritty, urban aesthetic, social consciousness …

Jan 29, 2025 · In 1991, he wrote, “the blaxploitation film genre had been defunct for over a decade, leaving a gaping hole in ‘Black Hollywood.’ ‘New Jack City’ was a harbinger of the …