Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Detective Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
Direction
Lee's hottest color palette burns the screen.
Acting
Mekhi Phifer's debut simmers with trapped panic.
Writing
Richard Price's dialogue crackles like live wire.
Director
Spike Lee
Harvey Keitel
Det. Rocco Klein
John Turturro
Det. Larry Mazilli
Delroy Lindo
Rodney Little
Mekhi Phifer
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham
Isaiah Washington
Victor Dunham
Keith David
André the Giant
Regina Taylor
Iris Jeeter
Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Errol Barnes
Sticky Fingaz
Scientific
Fredro Starr
Go
Elvis Nolasco
Horace
Lawrence B. Adisa
Stan
Hassan Johnson
Skills
Frances Foster
Gloria
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Spike Lee fired his original cinematographer mid-shoot for refusing to make the film look sufficiently 'hot and sweaty.'
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