New Jack City

About New Jack City

A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.

New Jack City is a 1991 crime thriller film directed by Mario Van Peebles. Its themes are drug dealer, cop, street gang, and undercover agent.

Wesley Snipes appears as Nino Brown, Ice-T as Scotty Appleton, Allen Payne as Garald "Gee Money" Welles, and Chris Rock as Pookie. At 101 minutes long, it arrived in March 1991.

The screenplay is by Barry Michael Cooper and Thomas Lee Wright. It comes from Jackson-McHenry Entertainment, Jacmac Films, and Warner Bros. Pictures. It streams on Starz Apple TV channel in the United States.

Fresh, American Gangster, and The French Connection make useful companions to New Jack City, all filed under drugs and ghetto. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 639 votes and it carries a R rating.