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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NC-17
Binding: DVD
Brand: TATE,LARENZ
EAN: 9781558908390
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1558908390
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 20, 1998
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 4157
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 04, 1995
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A Vietnam vet is drawn into a life of crime and, with the help of his war buddies, robs an armored car.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-JUN-2003
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Twin brother codirectors Albert and Alan Hughes planned their first film, the 1991 ghetto crime drama Menace II Society as a response to John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood, which they considered wimpy and moralistic. They set their sights on The Deer Hunter in this ambitious follow-up, and they just about pull it off. Larenz Tate (from Why Do Fools Fall in Love) plays Anthony Curtis, an open-hearted African American teenager who gets shipped out to Vietnam with several of his pals, witnesses unspeakable horrors, and then struggles to readjust to civilian life. The evolving textures of life in a declining inner-city neighborhood over a period of a decade are seamlessly evoked, and there's enough nuanced character development and personal interaction for a seven-hour miniseries. Still in their early 20s, the Hughes brothers are already poised and masterful moviemakers; they cover an enormous amount of historical and emotional ground, and every twist and turn is crystal clear. They betray their inexperience only at the very end, in an elaborately staged heist sequence that, while stunningly executed, feels a bit desperate, as if they were reaching blindly for a big payoff. Chris Tucker (Rush Hour) has a startling supporting role as a kid who becomes junkie during the war, and never quite recovers. --David Chute
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A great follow up to Meance II Society
The Hughes Brothers did the impossible for some directors avoided the sophmore slump. Dead Presidents is a ghetto classic about violence and a heist. Larenz Tate is good in the lead role and Chris Tucker is funny as always. This movie is very deep and thought provking and it's a shame The Hughes Brothers haven't done a movie since From Hell. After their sucess with American Pimp I thought for sure they'd take on Pimp by Iceberg Silm. Never the less still a good film.
Rating: - Interesting Take on the Black Experience Following Vietnam
The Hughes Brothers' Dead Presidents provides an interesting take on the American experience following the Vietnam war. While many directors have worked with this time period(Hal Ashby, Oliver Stone) this is the first film that deals with the issue from the standpoint of the returning black veteran.
Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate)tries to be a good citizen. He graduates from a Bronx high school and feeling that he is not ready for collge joins the Marine Corps and is sent to Vietnam where ... Read More
Rating:  - Doesn't Hold Up
I just watched this movie again after several years. I remember I liked it the first time, but it wasn't as good as Menace II Society. After watching it again last night I realized that this movie is a bomb. The acting is good and the characters are interesting, but the movie is so slow and then they rush to an ending that isn't set up very well. Then all of a sudden it's over. Are we supposed to feel bad for somebody getting 15 years to life after he contributed to the deaths of several innocent people? ... Read More
Rating:  - A Masterpiece!!
The Hughes Bros nailed it!!!
Larenz Tate; Chris Tucker (wow!!); Keith David; Terence Howard; Bokeem Woodbine; Freddy Rodriquez & N'Bushe Wright nailed it!!
The writers; historical advisors; everybody nailed it!!!!
Brilliant!!
Pay attention black filmakers...this is what great cinema is about...and I pray for a continuation.
Rating: - Greate Movie!
I loved this movie it's slow building
but towards the end it's greate! Highly recommend it!
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