Bones (2001 film)

Bones is a 2001 American horror film directed by Ernest Dickerson and starring rapper Snoop Dogg as the eponymous Jimmy Bones, a murdered gangster that rises from the grave to avenge his death. The movie is a homage to blaxploitation films of the 1970s and incorporates numerous elements from the genre.

The timeline flashes forward to 2001, where the neighborhood has become a black ghetto and Jimmys brownstone building is a condemned ruin. Four teens, Patrick Khalil Kain, his brother Bill Merwin Mondesir, their white stepsister Tia Katharine Isabelle and their best friend Maurice Sean Amsing, buy the property and they want to renovate it as a nightclub. In the process, Tia finds a black dog who is actually the spiritual manifestation of Jimmys tortured spirit. As the dog starts to eat, Jimmy is slowly resurrected.Patrick meets Pearl Pam Grier, Jimmys old girlfriend, and her daughter Cynthia Bianca Lawson. Patrick develops a romance with Cynthia. Patrick wanted to open a nightclub at the old ghetto neighborhood in hopes of making the neighborhood great again, and also to make a profit. While exploring the basement, Patrick, Cynthia, Bill, Tia and Maurice find Jimmy Bones body and they realize that he was actually murdered. Patrick, Cynthia, Bill, Tia and Maurice decide to keep Jimmys murder quiet or they wont be able to open the nightclub and they bury the remains. ........

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