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Fresh (1994)
Director: Boaz Yakin
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A stylish, affecting, ingeniously plotted first feature in which a 12-year-old black kid, beset by drug-dealers, a junkie sister, and his clean-living aunt, struggles to put his life in order by means of lessons he's learned from his chess-playing dad. Yakin never settles for the easy, last-minute moralising and macho posturing that has afflicted much of the otherwise intriguing new black cinema; here, story and character take priority, helped no end by Nelson's quiet, riveting central performance.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Boaz Yakin
Producer: Lawrence Bender, Randy Ostrow
Cast: Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L Jackson, N'Bushe Wright, Ron Brice, Jean LaMarre, Luis Lantigua full cast
Duration: 112 mins
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