2007
R
Magnolia Home Entertainment
1 h 32 m

2007
R
Magnolia Home Entertainment
1 h 32 m

Summary Mr. Touchable is the true-life story of Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug lord, which takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s. The most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history, Barnes came from humble beginnings to make himself and his comrades rich beyond their wi...

Directed By: Marc Levin

2007
R
Magnolia Home Entertainment
1 h 32 m

2007
R
Magnolia Home Entertainment
1 h 32 m

Mr. Untouchable

Name: Mr. Untouchable
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Released: 2007-10-26
Duration: 1 min 32 s
Rating: 65
Cast: Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes, David Breitbart, Walter Cronkite, Louie Diaz, Don Ferrarone

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews

77% Positive
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23% Mixed
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Philadelphia Inquirer

The "black Godfather" comes off as a cold-blooded narcissist whose vision of the American Dream is as twisted as it seems to have been rewarding.

By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW

New York Post

What emerges is a portrait of a complex man - one who had no qualms about murder and drugs but who won a national poetry contest and read "Moby-Dick" while in jail. Go figure.

By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

Chicago Tribune

As interesting, certainly, as “American Gangster,” and operating with a truer street sense of the characters involved.

By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

A slick package all around. Adroitly edited, filled with fine music like Curtis Mayfield's "Pusherman" and more people flashing needles than at a garment worker's convention, this film is less a dispassionate examination than a celebratory infomercial on its central character.

By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW

Village Voice

A fascinating first-person account of drug kingpin and ruthless gangster Nicky Barnes, whose outrageous story of rise, rule, rage, and revenge requires no such stylistic filler.

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The New York Times

There is some acknowledgment of the terrible effects of the drug trade on residents of Harlem and other poor New York neighborhoods, but for the most part Mr. Untouchable clings to the standard hip-hop mythology of the pusher as entrepreneur, rebel, celebrity and folk hero.

By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW

Variety

Alternately seduced and repelled by its subject, the garish and power-hungry Harlem gangster and '70s cocaine kingpin Nicky Barnes, Mr. Untouchable is one seriously confused documentary.

By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Blowback Productions, Dash Films, HDNet Films

Release Date Oct 26, 2007

Duration 1 h 32 m

Rating R

Genres

Tagline Godfather or Snitch

Mr. Untouchable

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Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes

Self

David Breitbart

Self - Nicky Barnes' Attorney

Walter Cronkite

Self

Louie Diaz

Self - Undercover DEA Agent

Don Ferrarone

Self - DEA Agent

Fred Ferretti

Self - NY Times Reporter

Larry Gerhold

Self - NYPD Detective

Robert Geronimo

Self - DEA Informant

Rudy Giuliani

Self

Thelma Grant

Self - Nicky Barnes' Ex-Wife

Carol Hawkins-Williams

Self

Jacqueline Hayden

Self - Wife of Joseph 'Jazz' Hayden

Joseph Hayden

Self

Louie Jones

Self - Former Heroin User

Frank Lucas

Self

Robert Nieves

Self - DEA Agent

Richard Nixon

Self

Nancy Reagan

Self

Ronald Reagan

Self

Benito Romano

Self - Assistant US Attorney

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