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Genres:
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Action /
Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Abel Ferrara
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Actors:
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Paul Calderon,
Leonard L. Thomas,
Janet Julian,
Ernest Abuba,
Carrie Nygren,
Christopher Walken,
David Caruso,
Laurence Fishburne,
Victor Argo,
Wesley Snipes,
Joey Chin,
Giancarlo Esposito,
Steve Buscemi,
Theresa Randle,
Roger Guenveur Smith
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Duration:
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103 min.
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Rating:
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(6.9/10)170
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Plot Summary:
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Dope lord Artless White is released from Sing-Sing can after serving a number of years benefit of drug trafficking. He is reunited with his erstwhile plot against, led aside the deathly Jimmy Snatch, as kind-heartedly as his close female bodyguards Raye and Melanie, and his lover/legal annalist Jennifer. After seeing his old neighborhood more dilapidated and depressing than continuously, Forthright decides to do virtuous by eliminating his competitors whom filled the void left near his incarceration, then away with their money and drugs to wealth a new South Bronx convalescent home destined f... or the dead. But Free's past won't induct progress of him when a group of overzealous cops, led by contaminate detective Roy Bishop, frustrated at the lack of clues to nail On the up on for the current street killings, determine to take matters into their own hands.
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King of New York
Acclaimed director Abel Ferrara chronicles Christopher Walken's merciless ascent to total control of the New York underworld
By 1990, Abel Ferrara had gone from notable exploitation movies like The Driller Killer and Ms 45 to the bright lights of TV cop shows including 'Crime Story' and 'Miami Vice'. Whether this counted as a form of promotion or neutering is open to debate, but either way, King Of New York represented his chance to go big budget and legitimate.
The same can be said of Frank White (Walken), the eponymous crime lord who begins the film being released from prison having served a long stretch, to immediately regain control of his blossoming drugs empire. White's plan is to grab back any lost turf - mostly using extreme violence - while...
Awful
Without a doubt one of the worse films I have ever came across. With such good actors I expected a lot more.
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