Paid in Full (film)

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This article is about the movie. For the album, see Paid in Full (album).

Paid in Full is 2002 film that was produced by Roc-A-Fella. It is a film that takes place in Harlem at the height of the Crack Epidemic that hit there during the 1980s.

[edit] Plot

Mitch who is the real life counterpart to Rich Porter starts the movie as a well known flashy drug dealer. Ace who is the real life counterpart to AZ works in a cleaners, but is a good friend of Mitch. Rico who is the real life counterpart to Alpo is not seen in the movie until he meets Mitch in Jail.

While working in the cleaners Ace meets a pretty rich Hispanic who askes him to wash a pair of pants for him. Ace finds coke in his pants and is baffled because the guy does not look like a drug dealer because he is not flashy or anything. The local drug dealer Calvin is locked up at the time so Ace takes over his strip. Mitch is not messing with Ace because he does not sell coke, but after he gets arrested he starts becomes partners with Ace dealing crack with Rico. The trio are extremely well known in harlem. Ace is quiet and tries to remain low profile, while Mitch is a hood rich pretty boy, and Rico is a killa who ain't afraid to let it be known.

The basic plot is about a young man who ends up taking over the crack drug game in Harlem. It is based on a true story. The main character, Ace, played by Wood Harris is stuck at a dead end job at the beginning of the movie. His sister's boy friend, named Calvin, is a big time drug dealer. He eventually gets locked up, so Ace ends up talking his spot. With the help of his friend, Mitch, played by Mekhi Phifer and Rico, played by Cam'ron, he creates a huge Harlem empire.

Trouble lurks though. Calvin comes out of jail and tries to regain his empire. He is only getting money out of Ace's generousity. Calvin doesn't accept it and choses to rather not get money if he wasn't doing it on his own. He ends up taking over Ace's apartment and shoots Ace in the head. Later on, Rico kills Calvin in retribution. Meanwhile Mitch's brother is kidnapped. In attempt to get his brother back Mitch attempts to make ransom from drug money. When he reaches out to Rico for help to sell them, Rico sees this as a chance to establish himself. He kills Mitch and takes the coke. Ace at the same time wants to get out of the crack game. He sets up Rico to sell drugs to the Feds. Rico is arrested and is seen in prison snitching on his connects. Afterward Mitch's 12 year old brother is found dead. He had been killed by an accomplice of Mitch's uncle who hadn't been getting any money from him.

[edit] Cast

• Wood Harris - Ace
• Mekhi Phifer - Mitch
• Cam'ron - Rico
• Regina Hall - Keisha

[edit] Memorable Quotes

"Everybody eats!! Everybody's gonna make this money!!" -Ace

" whats the point of havin soldiers if you can't even use dem" - Rico