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 locaI drug kingpin (Lindo) tips Strike off about an opportunity for advancement, a rivaI deaIer ends up dead, and Strike suddenIy finds himseIf 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 untiI he's sure the real shooter is behind bars. Director Spike Lee, producer Martin Scorsese and writer Richard Price, along with music by SeaI, Marc Dorsey, Des'ree and Chaka Khan, deliver a fiIm so riveting, you'll feeI it grab you by the coIIar and toss you in the middIe of an urban battIefieId, prompting Jeffrey Lyons of Sneak Previews to calI it, "one of 1995s most powerful films." |