Sucker Free City

Infobox_Film
name=Sucker Free City


caption = The DVD cover for "Sucker Free City".
imdb_id=0373280
writer=Alex Tse
starring=Ben Crowley
Ken Leung
Anthony Mackie
director=Spike Lee
music=Terence Blanchard | distributor=Showtime Network
released=September 16 2004
runtime=113 min.
language=English
movie_series=
awards=
producer=Spike Lee
Alex Tse
budget= |

"Sucker Free City" is a 2004 film directed by Spike Lee. The film takes a look at white, black, and Asian gangs in the city of San Francisco and the conflicts they encounter with each other. The film was first released in 2004 at the Toronto Film Festival and subsequently was released on television through the Showtime Network. The film was meant to be a pilot for a TV series, as seen by the two hour run-time, but the series never began production so it was released as a film.

ynopsis

The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime to survive in the city. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on the side. K-Luv (Mackie) is a member of the "V-Dubs" ("Visitacion Valley Mafia"), an African-American street gang. Lincoln (Leung) is a rising figure in the Chinese mafia who is having an affair with his boss' daughter (Carpio) who is engaged to a bound for success classmate at Stanford University. The three characters inevitably interact with each other. Gentrification forces Nick's family to move out of their home in the Mission District into Hunter's Point where they are harassed by the V-Dubs. K-Luv's side business of selling bootleg compact discs leads him to enlist Nick's help to bootleg CDs and to negotiate a truce with Lincoln.

Cast

External links

*imdb title|id=0373280|name=Sucker Free City
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/08/DD179055.DTL San Francisco Chronicle article on the making of the film (Part 1)]
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/09/DD129708.DTL San Francisco Chronicle article on the making of the film (Part 2)]