Above the Rim 1994  R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jeff Pollack
Cast: Duane Martin, Leon, Tupac Shakur, David Dailey, Tonya Pinkins, Marlon Wayans, Bernie Mac, Byron Minns, Wood Harris, Henry Simmons, Shawn Michael Howard, Iris Little Thomas, Michael Rispoli, Eric Nies, Bill Rafferty
Kyle-Lee (Duane Martin) is a high-school basketball star who leaves his team and joins a squad sponsored by drug dealer Birdie (Tupac Shakur). Birdie has an older brother, Shep (Leon), who begins dating Kyle's mother Mailika (Tonya Pinkins), and this upsets Kyle. Kyle begins spending time with hoodlums Moe (Byron Minns) and Bug (Marlon Wayans) and, after violence ensues, is faced with a dilemma: take the easy way out with crime or struggle to make it honestly on his own.
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South Central 1992  R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Steve Anderson
Cast: Glenn Plummer, Byron Minns, Lexie Bigham, Vincent Craig Dupree, Larita Shelby, Kevin Best, Big Daddy Wayne, Baldwin C. Sykes, Diane Manzo, Sal Landi, Christian Coleman, Leonard Boyles, Ivory Ocean, Terrence Williams, Reginald T. Dorsey
While serving time in prison, a gang member, Bobby (Glenn Plummer) decides to come clean and, upon release, tries to convince his own son Jimmie (Christian Coleman) not to fall into the desperate life of gangs in his inner-city Los Angeles.
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Witness Protection 1999 R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Tom Sizemore, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Shawn Hatosy, Forest Whitaker, Skye McCole Bartusiak, William Sadler, Jim Metzler, Greg Pitts, Leon Russom, Joanna Merlin, Harrison Young, Daniel Zacapa, Greg Lipari, Randy Thompson, Byron Minns
After a failed assassination attempt on his life, South Boston mobster Bobby "Bats" Batton (Tom Sizemore) applies for the Federal Witness Relocation Program. This means that he, his wife Cindy (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), and children Sean and Suzie (Shawn Hatosy and Skye McCole Bartusiak) must assume new identities and move to Seattle. They realize very quickly that those things are easier said than done.
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| 1. Above the Rim (1994)
2. South Central (1992)
3. Witness Protection (1999)
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