Juice

Cinematographer Ernest R. Dickerson directed and co-wrote this crime drama about a group of friends who get involved in a robbery. Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Q (Omar Epps), Raheem (Khalil Kain), and Steel (Jermaine Hopkins) are four Harlem friends who spend their days skipping school, getting in fights, ...more

The directorial debut of Spike Lee's cinematographer Ernest Dickerson is as good-looking as one would expect, but remains a routine tale of the grim lot of impoverished African-American youth. Unhappy with the level of "juice" (respect) he gets on the mean streets he's forced to walk, Bishop Tupac Shakur persuades the three friends of his crew (Omar Epps, Kalil Kain, and Jermaine Hopkins) that they need to get a gun to commit a robbery. Although there's nothing terribly amiss with the film, ...more