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| Miramax | Release Date: September 2, 1994 |
Starring:
Cheryl Freeman, Giancarlo Esposito, Jean-Claude La Marre, José Zúňiga, Luis Lantigua, N'Bushe Wright, Ron Brice, Samuel L. Jackson, Sean Nelson, Yul Vazquez
Summary:
Death and violence anger a 12-year-old drug courier, who sets his employers against each other.
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Nelson's is one of the year's best performances in nothing less than one of the year's best films. [23 Sep 1994, p.2]
Fresh sounds like another slice of low-life, a study of an intelligent but fatally disadvantaged ghetto child's inexorable descent into criminality. But if the situations are (at first) familiar, the characters aren't; they may look like the same old junkies and dealers and whores and gangsters, but first-time director Boaz Yakin invests all of them--particularly Fresh (Sean Nelson)--with a subtle, complex life that's both painful and exhilarating.
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Poised somewhere between a movie-familiar (i.e., semiscurrilous) look at inner-city life as trench warfare and a farfetched Hollywood revenge fantasy, this is kept alive largely through its first-rate performances, beginning with Sean Nelson's as the boy; Giancarlo Esposito is also a standout.
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Though well acted, and handsomely shot by veteran Adam Holender, Fresh sacrifices real emotion for thriller contrivances. It's a tourist's drive through inner-city hell. [05 Sep 1994, p.69]
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