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Directed by | Jean-Claude La Marre |
Written by | Jean-Claude La Marre |
Produced by | Brian "Skinny B." Lewis Doug Schwab Jean-Claude La Marre Jesse H. Rivard Kim Percival Larry Rattner Lila Aviv Liz La Marre Matt R. Brady Tim Swain |
Starring | Monica Calhoun Lil' Kim LisaRaye Marie Matiko Stacey Dash |
Cinematography | Ben Kufrin |
Music by | Michael Cohen |
Distributed by | Lionsgate |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $400,000 |
Gang of Roses is a 2003 Western action drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude La Marre. [1] It starred Monica Calhoun, Lil' Kim, LisaRaye, Charity Hill, Bobby Brown, Stacey Dash and Marie Matiko. The movie took just 18 days to film. [2]
The film followed by a sequel, Gang of Roses II: Next Generation (2012).
The film starts off with Left Eye Watkins and his gang attempting to bully Sheriff Shoeshine Michel into giving them gold and women. A female member of the gang is extremely enthusiastic about the women and sets out to rape a can-can girl in the middle of town. While resisting, the can-can cuts the female gang member who in turns shoots her in the middle of the road.
The can-can girl happens to be the sister of Rachel (Calhoun), the protagonist. Rachel, a religious, reformed bad girl, rounds up her former gang members, Kim (Dash), Zang Li (Matiko), Chastity (Lil' Kim), and Maria (LisaRaye),to seek revenge. They are followed by a blacked haired lady who is also seeking revenge upon Chastity.