Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 01/20/2004
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: MGM
An inner-city Chicago community comes together to save their neighborhood from destruction in this '70s era
blaxploitation-
comedy. The construction of a proposed expressway would tear up their urban home, so a massive block party is planned to protest the action. Meanwhile, fast-talking scam artist
Daddy Foxx (
Yaphet Kotto) has taken a group of unemployed young men under his wing and is teaching them the tricks of his trade.
Foxx's best pupil is 14-year-old
Baby D (
Kirk Calloway), much to the chagrin of his older brother,
Win (
Randy Brooks), a drummer who can't land a decent gig. After
Win's drum kit and apartment get trashed, he finds no recourse but to join up with
Foxx himself, so the gang proceeds to pull various cons on other local crooks. This annoys fellow street hustler
Goldie (
Rudy Ray Moore), but ultimately everyone has to put their differences aside and cooperate to make sure that their neighborhood isn't demolished by the city's bulldozers. It takes a lot of funky music, cream pies in the face, and petty theft, but together they stand their ground.
~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide
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