New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts when they steal a police car and the cops launch a violent offensive that involves beating and even shooting suspects.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
US
Genres:
Crime, Drama
Release:
April 1995
Production:
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Gramercy Pictures
Cast:
Sharron Corley, Gabriel Casseus, Saul Stein, Donald Faison, Gwen McGee, Heavy D, Roscoe Orman, Christine Baranski, Michele Morgan, Ellsworth Davis
Tags:
hip-hop, new jersey, police, brutality, troubled teen, black youths
