The story of five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem whose lives were upended by a miscarriage of justice after they were arrested in 1989 and convicted of rape.
Cinematographer Ernest R. Dickerson directed and co-wrote this stylish crime drama about four Harlem friends—Bishop (Shakur), Q (Epps), Raheem (Kain), and Steel (Hopkins)—who spend their days skipping school, getting in fights, and casually shoplifting. But while Q has big plans for the future, dreaming of becoming a deejay, seeing James Cagney in White Heat inspires Bishop to buy a gun and plan an armed robbery—the first step on an inescapable path of escalating violence.
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