Juice

“Juice” is about 4 inner-city teens who get caught up in the pursuit of power and happiness, which they refer to as ‘the juice’.

• Director:Ernest R. Dickerson
• Genre:Crime / Drama / Thriller
• Runtime:95 minutes

Cast

Omar Epps : Q
Tupac Shakur : Bishop
Jermaine ‘Huggy’ Hopkins : Steel (as Jermaine Hopkins)
Khalil Kain : Raheem
Cindy Herron : Yolanda

Bishop (Shakur), Q (Epps), Raheem (Kain) and Steel (Hopkins), who refer to themselves as “The Wrecking Crew,” are four friends growing up in Harlem. They regularly skip school and spend their days at a neighborhood arcade and a record store stealing LPs. They are generally harassed everyday by the police or a gang led by Radames. One day,some of the boys grow tired of harassment and decide to go all out to win respect. But Q isn’t sure if he wants to do it, plus he has a dj contest saturday night. The night they want to rob the place. In the process, Bishop ends up needlessly murdering store owner Fernando Quiles, an act which begins his spiral into darkness.

After the boys flee the scene, they gather in an abandoned building and argue over the evening’s events. The boys get mad at Bishop for kiling Quiles. So Q tells Raheem to get rid of the gun but Bishop doesn’t want to. A struggle ensues and Bishop shoots Raheem. The boys panic and run to another building. While there, Bishop threatens to kill the other two if they tell anyone about what Bishop has done.

The other two boys talk to each other and agree to avoid Bishop as much as possible, though they end up seeing him at Raheem’s funeral, even going so far as to hug Raheem’s mother and promising to find Raheem’s killer. They are mostly successful in their attempts to avoid Bishop but he ends up confronting them one at a time, questioning their loyalty. Read more

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