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Jun 28, 1991 · The movie covers a few days in the lives of a high school kid, who lives with his sister and his parents in a project. The story begins with brutal frankness, as the father, drunk, beats his wife and throws things around the apartment while the kids cower in the next room.
When Dennis (Lawrence Gilliard Jr.), the oldest son of an impoverished family living in a Brooklyn housing project, decides to earn some quick money by robbing a drug dealer, he gets caught up in...
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Dec 31, 1991 · Read the Empire Movie review of Straight Out Of Brooklyn. While this may be perceived as lacking in slickness, it makes up for it with its powerful emotional...
Straight Out of Brooklyn is not a glittering debut, but it does have a low-budget, first-time energy which sets it apart from much mainstream work. Full Review | Feb 6, 2020
Sep 10, 2012 · From its powerhouse opening, in which young, gifted and black New Yorker Dennis (Gilliard) is woken by his father's ferocious attack on his mother, it's immedia.
Straight Out of Brooklyn: Directed by Matty Rich. With George T. Odom, Ann D. Sanders, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Barbara Sanon. A young man living in poverty makes a plan to rob a drug dealer and change the life of his family.
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Straight Out of Brooklyn is a 1991 independent film directed by Matty Rich in his directorial debut. The film is a story about Dennis (played by Larry Gilliard Jr. ), an African-American teen living in a housing project with his sister, mother and abusive, alcoholic father.
