Sucker Free City

Sucker Free City
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Directed by	Spike Lee
Produced by	Spike Lee Alex Tse
Written by	Alex Tse
Starring	Ben Crowley Ken Leung Anthony Mackie
Music by	Terence Blanchard
Cinematography	César Charlone
Edited by	Barry Alexander Brown
Distributed by	Showtime Network
Release dates	September 16, 2004
Running time	113 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Sucker Free City is a 2004 television film directed by Spike Lee.^[1] The film examines white, black, and Chinese characters in San Francisco and the conflicts they encounter with each other. The film was intended to be the pilot for a Showtime television series, but Showtime declined to pick up the series. The film was first screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and was subsequently broadcast on television on the Showtime Network.

Synopsis

The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on the side. K-Luv (Mackie) is a member of the "V-Dubs" ("Visitacion Valley Mafia"), an African-American street gang. Lincoln (Leung) is a rising figure in the Chinese mafia.

Gentrification forces Nick's family to move out of their home in the Mission District into Hunter's Point, where they are harassed by the V-Dubs. K-Luv's side business of selling bootleg compact discs leads him to enlist Nick's help to bootleg CDs and to negotiate a truce with Lincoln. Lincoln conducts an affair with his boss's daughter Angela (Carpio), a Stanford student engaged to a medical student classmate.

Cast

References

External links

• Sucker Free City at the Internet Movie Database
• San Francisco Chronicle article on the making of the film (Part 1)
• San Francisco Chronicle article on the making of the film (Part 2)