Waist Deep
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| Directed by | Vondie Curtis-Hall |
| Produced by | Ted Field |
| Written by | Screenplay: Vondie Curtis-Hall Darin Scott Story: Michael Mahern |
| Starring | Tyrese Gibson Meagan Good Larenz Tate The Game |
| Music by | Kon Artis Terence Blanchard Howard Drossin |
| Cinematography | Shane Hurlbut |
| Editing by | Terilyn A. Shropshire |
| Distributed by | Rogue Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  June 23, 2006 November 3, 2006 April 28, 2006 |
| Running time | 87 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Followed by | Waist Deep 2: Reel Deep |
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Waist Deep is a 2006 drama-action film directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall, starring Tyrese Gibson and Meagan Good. This is a loose remake of the 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde, including some similar subplots including the two main characters on the road, trying to avoid police, and committing bank robberies.
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[edit] Plot
Ex-con Otis (Tyrese Gibson), or "O2" as he was once known on account of his ability to vanish from a crime scene like oxygen, has done his time and is now determined to stay out of trouble and never leave his young son, Otis, Jr. (Henry Hunter Hall), ever again.
When O2 shows up late to pick Junior up from school one afternoon, he even pinky-swears that he'll always come back for Junior. That promise is put to the test just moments later when O2's cherry vintage Chevy convertible is stolen from him at gunpoint in the middle of a crowded Southland intersection -- with Junior in the back seat.
O2 chases the car and gets into a nasty gun battle with the carjackers -- circumstances that then make it impossible for O2 go to the police -- but to no avail.
O2 does, however, catch up with Coco (Meagan Good), a woman who sells stolen suits on the streets for a thug known as P Money (Julius Denem). O2 knows she's the one who marked him for the carjacking, and he forces her to help him get Junior back.
Lucky (Larenz Tate), Otis' unreliable brother who works for Big Meat (Jayceon "The Game" Taylor), the brutally vicious leader of the Outlaw Syndicate, also offers to help.
After a few hours on the street, Lucky comes back with some bad news: Junior has fallen into Meat's hands, and Meat is demanding that O2 deliver $100,000 by midnight the following night, or Junior will die.
Otis claims that that he's broke, but Meat thinks otherwise: Meat was once O2's partner in crime, and he thinks O2 is still holding onto the $100,000 they made off their last job together -- the job that got O2 sent up for six years.
Desperate to raise the cash, O2 comes up with a plan: He and Coco will rip off P Money's and Meat's own operations, staging it to look like the one is ripping off the other, and thereby triggering a gang war that will hopefully take them both down, and help O2 and Coco rescue Junior.
[edit] Cast
| Role | Cast | Notes |
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| 02 | Tyrese Gibson | Lead role |
| Coco | Meagan Good | |
| Lucky | Larenz Tate | |
| Big Meat | The Game | |
| Junior | Henry Hunter Hall | |
| ? | Eric Lane | |
| Fencing House Lady | Kimora Lee Simmons | |
| P Money | Julius Denem |
[edit] Differences from Bonnie and Clyde
- The main characters weren't killed by the police.
- The story didn't involve a child.
- Bonnie and Clyde was set in central United States during the Great Depression, Waist Deep was set in Los Angeles in the 2000s.
[edit] Box Office
Waist Deep grossed $9,404,180 from 1,004 theaters with an impressive $9,366 average in its opening weekend. Altogether, the film grossed $21,344,312.[1]
[edit] Awards/Nominations
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor, (Nominated) Black Movie Awards
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress, (Nominated) Black Movie Awards
- Choice Breakout Performance (Female), (Nominated) Teen Choice Awards
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- Outstanding Hip-Hop Movie, (Nominated) BET Hip-Hop Movie Awards
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[edit] Trivia
- The movie was originally titled Blood Street
- Thandie Newton was rumored to play the female lead but the part went to Meagan Good.
- The movie was filmed in 26 days.
- 50 Cent was rumored to play O2 or Big Meat
