Clockers (film)

Clockers is a 1995 American crime drama film directed by Spike Lee. It is an adaptation of the eponymous 1992 novel by Richard Price, who also cowrote the screenplay with Lee. The film stars Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, and Mekhi Phifer in his debut film role. Set in New York City, Clockers tells the story of Strike Phifer, a streetlevel drug dealer who becomes entangled in a murder investigation.

Rocco Klein Harvey Keitel and Larry Mazilli John Turturro, homicide detectives, ride to the scene of Darryl Adams murder. Larry and Rocco receive a phone call from another detective who says a man has confessed at a local church that he killed Darryl. The police meet Strikes older brother Victor at the church and take him in for questioning. In the interrogation room, Victor tells Rocco that he shot Darryl Adams in selfdefense. Rocco finds holes in this story and starts looking into Victors background which includes two jobs, a wife, two children, no criminal record, and aspirations to move out of the projects Rocco comes to the conclusion that Victor is covering for his younger brother.Rodney accosts Strike for not committing the murder himself, with Errol, Rodneys enforcer, chastising Strike for getting his brother to do the hit. Later, Rodney tells Strike a story of a younger Rodney and an younger Errol which goes to a flashback, where Errol threatened Rodney at gunpoint to kill a rival dealer, going as far as Errol holding a shotgun to Rodneys head. Rodney ends up killing the dealer, and back to Rodney and Strike Rodney tells Strike the reason Errol, his best friend, forced Rodney at gunpoint to do that was so that Errol could hold something over Rodney, if Rodney ever decided to tell on Errol, which was why Rodney told Strike to kill Darryl Adams himself. ........

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