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King of New York
“Not everyone who runs a city is elected.”
19901h 43mDir Abel Ferrara6.8TMDB
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Top Cast
50 total
Christopher Walken
as Frank White
David Caruso
as Dennis Gilley
Laurence Fishburne
as Jimmy Jump
Victor Argo
as Roy Bishop
Wesley Snipes
as Thomas Flanigan
Janet Julian
as Jennifer
Joey Chin
as Larry Wong
Giancarlo Esposito
as Lance
The scene we cut
The card game
"From here on, nothing goes down unless I'm involved." Frank White crashes the card game.
Walken has said Frank White is one of his favourite parts and that he based the walk on a dancer, which is what he trained as. Fishburne's character Jimmy Jump was so popular that rappers were quoting him within a year, and the film is name checked on records by Biggie, Nas and Jay-Z.
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