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Straight Out of Brooklyn is a american film of genre Drama directed by Matty Rich released in USA on 13 june 1991 with Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.
Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)
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Add to a movie listStraight Out of Brooklyn is an 1991 independent film directed by Matty Rich in his directorial debut. The film is a gritty story about Dennis (played by Larry Gilliard Jr.), an African-American teen living in a housing project with his sister, mother and abusive, alcoholic father. Fed up with his family's seemingly hopeless future, he plans with his friends to rob a drug dealer.
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Dennis, living in a Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn, New York has had enough of poverty, and witnessing his alcoholic father beat his mother. His father is depressed and troubled from working hard for "the white man" for so many years, yet having nothing to show for it.Actors
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