Original Gangstas

Original Gangstas is a 1996 action movie filmed and set in urban Gary, Indiana starring Blaxploitation film stars such as Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Jim Brown, and Richard Roundtree.

The movie opens to a narration detailing the poor economic state of a gangridden Gary. The narrator explains to the audience of how the city came into such a state. After the opening narrative, the scene switches to the base of operations for the Rebels, a local street gang, and a oneonone basketball game between a Rebel gang member and a local boy named Kenny Thompson. Kenny humiliates the Rebel by winning and taking the gambled winnings for his own. After he leaves, Spyro, the current coleader of the Rebels opposite Damien is under the impression that Kennys skills are something more than something he picked up. He instructs his lieutenant, Kayo, to exact retribution on Kenny for being hustled.While Kenny and his friend Marcus are relaxing at a diner, Kenny decides to call his girlfriend. He enters a phone booth to make the call, but is subsequently shot by Kayo in a driveby shooting his mother, Laurie Thompson, alarmed by the gunshots, steps outside her home to discover her son murdered. The owners of the grocery store, Marvin Bookman and Gracie Bookman, two wellrespected members of the community by both the Rebels and local citizens, feels that justice should be brought to Kennys murderer and discloses the license plate number of the shooters vehicle. When the Rebels discover this, Spyro orders Kayo to dispose of the vehicle. Spyro and Damien then proceed to confront Marvin about his assistance to the investigators of Kennys death Marvin argues that Kenny was a good person and did not deserve to be shot. The coleaders of the Rebels describe how they respected the Bookmans store and, while others around it were robbed and ransacked, their store was left alone the fact that Marvin would sell them out expresses a high amount of disrespect to the Rebels, who then immediately seek revenge on Marvin. Eventually, Kayo and Bobby, with a group of fellow Rebels, attacks the grocery store, resulting in the nearfatal shooting of Marvin by Bobby. ........

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