Dead Presidents

Dead Presidents is a 1995 American crime film cowritten by Michael Henry Brown, and the Hughes brothers, Albert and Allen, who also produced and directed the film. It stars Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Freddy Rodriguez, NBushe Wright, and Bokeem Woodbine. The film chronicles the life of Anthony Curtis, focusing on his teenage years as a high school graduate and his experiences during the Vietnam War. As he returns to his hometown in The Bronx, Curtis finds himself struggling to support himself and his family, eventually turning to a life of crime.

In the spring of 1969, Anthony Curtis Larenz Tate is about to graduate from high school. Anthony is not going to college, and needing to get away from home to find himself, he enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps shortly after graduation. He is sent to Vietnam, leaving behind his middleclass family, a pregnant girlfriend Rose Jackson, and small time crook Kirby Keith David, who is like a second father.Anthonys close friend Skip Chris Tucker later joins Curtiss squad after flunking out of college, and Jose Freddy Rodriguez is drafted into the Army. Once in the Marines, Curtis meets gungho lieutenant Dugan Jaimz Woolvett, and his wartime friend, Cleon Bokeem Woodbine, a religious yet deadly staff sergeant. During their tour in Vietnam as members of a Force Recon unit, they experience the horrors of war, losing several fellow Marines during combat. The Marines especially Cleon also commit atrocities, including executing enemy prisoners and beheading corpses for war trophies. ........

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