The Stick Up Kids | |
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Directed by | Hawthorne James |
Written by | Debora Heflin Tariq Alexander |
Produced by | Tariq Alexander |
Starring | Mel Jackson Bryce Wilson Tariq Alexander Hawthorne James |
Music by | David Harris Tariq Alexander John Fitzgerald McGill |
Production company | The System Within Film Production |
Distributed by | Imagine Entertainment |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Stick Up Kids is a 2008 film directed by Hawthorne James and starring Bryce Wilson, Mel Jackson, Tariq Alexander, and Hawthorne James. [1]
Four friends from Harlem resort to con games and armed robbery in order to make ends meet, but they find their friendship put to the test when an influential slumlord plots to gentrify their neighborhood. Now, in order to prove that they can't be bought out or pushed around by a man who thinks everyone has their price, these four young hustlers are about to carry out their most ambitious and treacherous scam to date. [2]
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