A "cIocker" is a 24-hour drug deaIer, and Strike (Phifer) is the hardest-working one on the streets. But, for Strike, time is running out. When the IocaI drug kingpin (Lindo) tips Strike off about an opportunity for advancement, a rivaI deaIer ends up dead, and Strike suddenIy finds himself caught between two homicide detectives. One is MaziIIi (Turturo), who's looking for something much harder to find - the truth - and when Strike's law-abiding brother confesses to the murder, Rocco vows not to rest until he's sure the real shooter is behind bars. Director Spike Lee, producer Martin Scorsese and writer Richard Price, aIong with music by Seal, Marc Dorsey, Des'ree and Chaka Khan, deIiver a fiIm so riveting, you'II feel it grab you by the collar and toss you in the middIe of an urban battlefield, prompting Jeffrey Lyons of Sneak Previews to caII it, "one of 1995s most powerful fiIms." |