The Stick Up Kids

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The Stick Up Kids
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Directed by Hawthorne James
Written byDebora Heflin
Tariq Alexander
Produced byTariq Alexander
Starring Mel Jackson
Bryce Wilson
Tariq Alexander
Hawthorne James
Music byDavid Harris
Tariq Alexander
John Fitzgerald McGill
Production
company
The System Within Film Production
Distributed by Imagine Entertainment
Release date
  • February 15, 2008 (2008-02-15)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Stick Up Kids is a 2008 film directed by Hawthorne James and starring Bryce Wilson, Mel Jackson, Tariq Alexander, and Hawthorne James. [1]

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Premise

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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  2. "Stick up Kids". Amazon. 21 March 2010.