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The Breaks is a american film of genre Comedy released in USA on 26 february 1999 with Paul Benjamin
The Breaks (1999)
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Add to a movie listThe Breaks is an American 1999 comedy film written by and starring Mitch Mullany and directed by Eric Meza.
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A Sunday in the life of Derrick King, an Irish kid raised in South Central L.A. by a black family. He talks black, dresses black, and thinks of himself as black. It is a day of disasters: his mom kicks him out of the house, his uncle fires him, the woman he loves dismisses him as childish, the LAPD (wearing Confederate flag shoulder patches) impounds his car and tosses him in the drunk tank, a mean dude is after him for money, he is imprisoned in a store basement by gay sadists, and he is shot at. Along the way, however, he shows kindness to a near-sighted kid, and those random acts may prove to be his salvation. Rappers Xzibit and Flesh-n-Bone appear in the film.Actors
Paul Benjamin
(Clerk)
Mitch Mullany
(Derrick King)
Lamont Bentley
(Darryl)
Anthony Anderson
(Inmate #1)
Carl Anthony Payne II
(Chris)
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