1992
R
Paramount Pictures
1 h 35 m

1992
R
Paramount Pictures
1 h 35 m

Summary Four Harlem friends—Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Q (Omar Epps), Steel (Jermaine Hopkins) and Raheem (Khalil Kain)—dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night o...

Directed By: Ernest R. Dickerson

Written By: Gerard Brown, Ernest R. Dickerson

1992
R
Paramount Pictures
1 h 35 m

1992
R
Paramount Pictures
1 h 35 m

Juice

Name: Juice
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1992-01-17
Duration: 1 min 35 s
Rating: 60
Cast: Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine Hopkins, Khalil Kain, Cindy Herron

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 20 User Ratings

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Directed By: Ernest R. Dickerson

Written By: Gerard Brown, Ernest R. Dickerson

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Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews

65% Positive
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6% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews

65% Positive
11 Reviews

29% Mixed
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6% Negative
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Entertainment Weekly

The film is an inflammatory morality play shot through with rage and despair.

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Boston Globe

Juice is a film about choices. The right ones. The tragically wrong ones. There will be comparisons to Matty Rich's brilliant "Straight Out of Brooklyn," but Dickerson's effort is more richly textured, more grounded in an ordinary kid's point of view. And Dickerson's dogged determination to film from that perspective has resulted in a film rich in the right lingo, the right clothes, the right attitudes. [17 Jan 1992, p.67]

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Variety

Dickerson and co-writer Gerard Brown exhibit a sharp ear for dialog and have some real finds in their largely unknown cast.

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Austin Chronicle

Dickerson's story of street kids at risk breaks no new ground. It is better than most, but not by much. Sure looks good, though.

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Newsweek

Poised halfway between the action conventions of "New Jack City" and the personal grit of "Straight Out of Brooklyn," Juice doesn't have the pizzaz or the insight, to satisfy as either exploitation or art. Dickerson and his fresh young cast make it move; it just doesn't move very far.

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Juice takes a black director, a black cast and a black theme - ghetto youths come of age - and turns the whole exercise into a white-bread,middle-of-the-road film. You root for it to rise to the challenge, to be better than it is, but it sticks to the straight course - polished enough yet steadfastly predictable, just another sentimental slice of mean-street life. [22 Jan 1992]

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Orlando Sentinel

It's a fairly intriguing (and, surprisingly non-exploitative) premise, but director/co-writer Ernest R. Dickerson is lost when it comes to devising situations that would suggest what goes on inside his characters' heads. These people are all exactly what they appear to be on the surface, which isn't very involving. [17 Jan 1992, p.20]

By Jay Boyar FULL REVIEW

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7.2

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Production Company Island World, Original Film

Release Date Jan 17, 1992

Duration 1 h 35 m

Rating R

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Tagline In the Ghettos of Harlem you don't buy respect ...you earn it.

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Omar Epps

Q

Tupac Shakur

Bishop

Jermaine Hopkins

Steel

Khalil Kain

Raheem

Cindy Herron

Yolanda

Vincent Laresca

Radames

Samuel L. Jackson

Trip

George Gore II

Brian

Grace Garland

Q's Mother

Queen Latifah

Ruffhouse M.C.

Bruklin Harris

Keesha

Victor Campos

Quiles

Eric Payne

Frank

Sharon Cook

Record Store Clerk

Darien Berry

Blizzard

Maggie Rush

Myra

Flex Alexander

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Rony Clanton

Detective Markham

Michael Badalucco

Detective Kelly

Jacqui Dickerson

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