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Description | Information (i):  Show or Hide Description Hoodlum (1997)
 6.3/10 from 9223 users Updated : 2018-04-18
 Rating: 5.6/10
[fresh!] 43% [audience liked it!] 66%
 Crime , Drama
 Laurence Fishburne , Tim Roth , Vanessa Williams , Andy Garcia , Cicely Tyson , Chi McBride , Clarence Williams III , Richard Bradford , William Atherton ,
Loretta Devine , Queen Latifah , Mike Starr , Beau Starr , Paul Benjamin , Joe Guzaldo
 Bill Duke
IMDB  130
 1997
 The film focuses on the war of two gangs in 1930s Harlem for the control of illegal gaming - one headed by black strategic godfather Bumpy Johnson and another by
white ruthless hothead Dutch Schultz. Negotiations proposed by white syndicate boss Lucky Luciano never get under way| blood flows and Johnson gets jailed. When
Johnson is paroled| he gets the work of enforcer for mighty Stephanie "The Queen" St. Clair. She is also jailed for racketeering and when she leaves she makes him
promise "no violence". |
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