Poster from TMDB
New Jack City
Sign in to save1991 film directed by Mario Van Peebles
OverviewAI-generated
New Jack City is a 1991 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Mario Van Peebles and written by Barry Michael Cooper. The movie features Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Judd Nelson, and Allen Payne in the cast. Michel Colombier composed the score, while Francis Kenny served as director of photography. The narrative is set in New York City and focuses on organized crime, drug dealing, street gangs, and undercover agents.
The film was produced by Jacmac Films, Jackson-McHenry Entertainment, and Warner Bros. Pictures, with Warner Bros. Entertainment handling distribution. It was released in 1991, with specific dates including January 1, August 29, and March 8. The runtime is listed as 101 minutes or 97 minutes. The production budget was 8,500,000, and the revenue reached 47,624,253. It is available via video on demand through Netflix.
Synthesized by Vinony from 34 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, TMDb, IMDb. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, New Jack City is referenced by 179 other articles, and connects out to Atlanta, Houston and New Orleans.
It sits within the topics 1990s hip-hop films, 1990s hood films and 1991 American films.
Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Film · TMDB
6.7A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Cast
- Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown
- Ice-T as Scotty Appleton
- Allen Payne as Garald "Gee Money" Welles
- Chris Rock as Pookie
- Mario Van Peebles as Stone
- Michael Michele as Selina
Themes
- drug dealer
- new york city
- street gang
- undercover agent
- heroin
- ghetto
- gang leader
- cop
- crack
- drugs
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- action film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- organized crime
- Director
- Mario Van Peebles
- Screenwriter
- Barry Michael Cooper
- Cast member
- Thalmus Rasulala
- Composer
- Michel Colombier
- Production company
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Cinematographer
- Francis Kenny
- Narrative location
- New York City
- Duration
- 100
- FilmAffinity ID
- 947945
- Distribution format
- video on demand
Show 5 more facts
- publication date
- 1991-08-29
- title
- New Jack City
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 61/100
- assessment
- Bechdel test
Sources (13)
via Wikidata · CC0