This is an English film mate! No blacks in the cast but it still has a lot nigga-rishness in it.
This film is about a 17 year-old boy, Joshua "J" Cody, who moves in with his loser/gangster-criminal family after his mom dies of a heroin overdose. Obviously his mom wasn't the best role-model if she dies of a heroin overdose in the living room. After dem folks came and got her body he called his grandma, who up until this point hasn't heard from him of his mother and for good reason. He told his grandma of the news in a bit of a cold ass way for son who lost his mother and she said she was coming to get him and his things so J could move in with her.
So his grandma gets him to the house and immediately you get introduced to 3 of his uncles who all stay in this house with his overly loving grandmother, his uncles' mother. He has one uncle, Darren, who is only a few years older than him but dude aint really the rah rah type he seems to be down only because of relation. Another uncle, Craig, is a paranoid coke head who is the live wire type. The alpha uncle, Barry, who seems to be the boss amongst his siblings as he is the major bread winner via drugs, the stock market and other shit. There is also another uncle, Pope, is a nutcase who you don't immediately meet because he is hiding from a tactical police murder squad, some vice type shit. Okay so his OVERLY loving grandmother raised all these no goods and doesn't care what they turned out to be she just loves being around them and is proud of em.
Now you have all the ingredients for a ain't shit family to corrupt an impressionable youth. So the story progresses as the uncle who is hiding out, Pope, who has the house under watch by a car of cops at all times meets with Barry the alpha sibling at a shop for a secret meeting. After the meeting between Pope and Barry, the cops who have been following all the uncle in hopes to catch Pope shot Barry in his car in the parking lot of where they meeting took place. On some classic black man with a red toothbrush "lookout hes got a gun" shit except it was a white dude with no toothbrush Pope hears this as he just split from meeting with him and is struck.
The news gets to the rest of the family and they do their grieving. But that is not the end, these dudes are buck so shit gets real. They end up setting up some random police officers with a decoy stolen car and pop both their asses. The decoy car is stolen by J which was commissioned by Pope in his role model role. Now they got away because they did it real slick like.
The cops know their brother/uncle just got killed by some cops and figure that the household is responsible. They bring em all in for questioning. The get at J because he is the most likely to crack in this situation being that he is the youngest at 17. J holds up under the questioning but doesn't get released with the rest of his uncles. This causes suspicions amongst his uncles. Wandering if he told Pope is keeping a close eye on J and his beezy.
Pope gets real paranoid after the cops continue to fuck with J and he isn't sure if J is thorough enough to stay down in the faces of pressure. A particular detective is edging on the situation more. Pope gets shadier and shadier the more the movie goes on and turns into an asshole extraordinaire.
The family is under heat for the cop murder and they don't want to go to jail and won't by any means necessary. That includes taking a member of the fam out if need be.
The overall movie is decent
I give it:
3.75 / 5 stars
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