Shottas
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| Shottas | |
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 Cover to a bootleg copy of Shottas (2002). |
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| Directed by | Cess Silvera |
| Produced by | Jennifer Farrell Wyclef Jean Fabien Pruvot Cess Silvera Norman Silvera |
| Written by | Cess Silvera |
| Starring | Spragga Benz Ky-Mani Marley |
| Music by | Wyclef Jean |
| Cinematography | Cliff Charles |
| Editing by | Danny Saphire |
| Distributed by | unreleased |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Jamaica |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $200,000 |
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Shottas is a 2002 film about two young men who participate in organized crime in Kingston, Jamaica and Miami, Florida. It stars Spragga Benz, Ky-Mani Marley, and Wyclef Jean and was written and directed by Cess Silvera. Despite its low budget, the movie employs an engaging storyline and the distribution of an unfinished bootleg made it a cult favourite long before its official release by SONY Pictures in 2006.
The film takes its name from a Jamaican term for gangsters.
[edit] Plot
The film tells the true story of two young men, Wayne (Benz) and and Bigs (Marley), who grow up together in the tough and dangerous streets of Kingston. They rob a soda truck and shoot the truck's driver while still in their early teens.
The robbery money is used to purchase visas to go the United States, where they continue their criminal activities, hustling on the streets of Miami. Wayne is then deported to Jamaica and continues his surge in crime, where he begins to extort money from business people. Bigs gets deported a few years later. After a while, they both head back to the US with some of their cronies and continue stealing, targeting drug dealers. The drug dealers decide to put up a strong resistance to the two!
