Clockers [Blu-ray]

Director: Spike Lee Spike Lee

Overview

The grim realities of drug dealers' lives provides the basis for this gritty drama. The story centers on Strike, a 19-year old drug dealer who lives in the Brooklyn projects. When Strike agrees to help a local drug lord kill one of rivals, he finds himself in serious trouble.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/04/2020
UPC:	0738329237189
Original Release:	1995
Rating:	R
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	2:08:00
Sales rank:	27,343

Special Features

Audio commentary by film critic Kameron Austin Collins; Theatrical trailer; 1920x1080p

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Harvey Keitel	Rocco Klein
John Turturro	Larry Mazilli
Delroy Lindo	Rodney Little
Mekhi Phifer	Strike Dunham
Isaiah Washington	Victor Dunham
Keith David	Andre the Giant
Regina Taylor	Iris Jeeter
Tom Byrd	Errol Barnes,Errol Barnes
Sticky Fingaz	Scientific
Fredro	Go
E.O. Nolasco	Horace
Lawrence B. Adisa	Stan
Hassan Johnson	Skills
Frances Foster	Gloria
Michael Imperioli	Jo-Jo
Lisa Arrindell Anderson	Sharon
Paul Calderon	Jesus at Hambones
Brendan Kelly	Big Chief
Mike Starr	Thumper
Graham Brown	Mr. Herman Brown
Steve White	Darryl Adams
Spike Lee	Chucky
Shawn McLean	Solo
Arthur Nascarella	Bartucci
Harry Lennix	Bill Walker
Bray Poor	Detective No. 1
Craig McNulty	Detective No. 2
Christopher Wynkoop	Detective No. 3
Paul Schulze	Detective No. 4
Donald Stephenson	Detective No. 5
John Fletcher	Al the Medic
J.C. MacKenzie	Frank the Medic
David Evanson	Smart Mike
Norman Matlock	Reverend Paul
Isaac Fowler	Charles
Leonard Thomas	Onion the Bar Patron
Maurice Sneed	Davis the Bartender
Calvin Hart	Guard No. 1
Ginny Yang	Kiki
Michael Badalucco	Cop No. 1
Rick Aiello	Cop No. 2
Scot Anthony Robinson	Earl
Richard Ziman	Moe
David Batiste	T
Mar'qus Sample	Ivan,Mark
Ron Brice	Dead Man Begging
Ken Garito	Louie
Anthony Nacerino	Teen No. 1
Brian Konowal	Teen No. 2
Michael McGruther	Teen No. 3
Carlo Vogel	Teen No. 4
Harvey Williams	`Pick Me Up' Kid,Bike Cop
Michael Cullen	Narc No. 1
Tim Kelleher	Narc No. 2
Skipp Dudduth	Narc No. 3
Larry Mullane	Larry the Narc
Peewee Love	Actor
Lisa Anderson	Sharon
Anthony Nocerino	Teen
Jeff Ward	Bike Cop
Marc Webster	EMS Technician
James Saxenmeyer	EMS Attendant
Joanna Gardner	Corrections Officer
Terence Blanchard	Composer

Technical Credits

Spike Lee

Richard Price

Spike Lee	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Jon Kilik	Producer
Steve Kirshoff	Special Effects
Robi Reed-Humes	Casting
Monty Ross	Executive Producer,Producer
Martin Scorsese	Producer
Rosalie Swedin	Executive Producer
Jeff Ward	Stunts
Rosalie Swedlin	Executive Producer
Richard Price	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Spike Lee's film adaptation of Richard Price's epic novel on the effects of the crack trade has flashes of the director's characteristic brilliance, but, in its lack of focus and overall familiarity, it falls well short of his best work. A project assumed by Lee after the departure of Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro, its relentless deglamorization of the drug trade suggests that the director was attempting his own Goodfellas (1990). But despite Price's highly tuned ear for the bluster, the edgy evasiveness, and the suicidal delusions of these "clockers," the film often feels like a banal reworking of TV-cop show material, or more accurately, the Warners' socially conscious crime melodramas of the '30s. To his credit, Lee has completely stripped the dealers of the charisma Bogart and Cagney lent to the gangsters in those films, revealing them to be venal, petty, and foolish pawns in a game they must eventually lose. But like Harvey Keitel's enlightened detective, Lee has a measure of compassion for his protagonist Strike (Mekhi Phifer), revealing just how difficult it is for him to extricate himself from a life he begins dimly to grasp as a mistake. It's unfortunate that the dynamics of his relationships with the cops and with the solid citizens struggling for respectability are, at this point, so shopworn. Still, there moments of prime Lee, such as the hallucinatory flashback of Rodney's (Delroy Lindo) first murder, and the editing of the sequence in which Strike describes the virtues of the crack trade to his young protégé. Keitel and Lindo stand out in a cast that is almost uniformly superb, and Terence Blanchard's original, minimalist score is among the film's pleasures.