Acting
Rapaport's cringe-perfect wannabe energy, never sympathetic.
Direction
Drazan captures Detroit's decay with documentary rawness.
Writing
Dialogue that doesn't let anyone off the hook.
Director
Anthony Drazan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released weeks before the 1992 LA riots, the film's Detroit setting was originally meant to be LA—Drazan changed locations after Rodney King.
Rapaport, a real hip-hop head, got the role after hounding Drazan for months; his authentic awkwardness wasn't entirely acting.
US
