A dark, effective satire about drug addiction that offers laughs as well as savage criticism of the US approach to dealing with users.
Gridlock'd (1997)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:6
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: When a friend OD's and winds up in a coma, a mismatched pair of Detroit junkies strive to seek help in kicking their heroin habit in government-sponsored programs, only to find themselves drowning... When a friend OD's and winds up in a coma, a mismatched pair of Detroit junkies strive to seek help in kicking their heroin habit in government-sponsored programs, only to find themselves drowning in the comical--and sadly accurate--bureaucratic morass of sanctioned detox centers. An authentic, scathingly satiric black comedy debut from actor-turned-writer/director Vondie Curtis Hall, featuring the final big screen performance of murdered rapper Tupac Shakur. [More]
Starring: Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, Thandie Newton, Vondie Curtis-Hall
Starring: Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, Thandie Newton, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Charles Fleischer, Howard Hesseman, James Pickens, John Sayles, Tom Towles
Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall
Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall
Screenwriter: Vondie Curtis-Hall
Composer: Stewart Copeland
Reviews for Gridlock'd
The film has a fairly uninteresting narrative motor in its thriller subplot, but hits on an edgy black comic tone for Stretch and Spoon's increasingly pained dealings with the unsympathetic representatives of authority.
An engaging look at a mangy day in the lives of two junkies trying to kick, Gridlock'd would have been a good mid-level B.O. performer even without the interest surrounding it, due to the recent death of co-star Tupac Shakur.
Cast against type as the gentler of two musician junkies trying to burrow through the bureaucracy to enter a rehab clinic in Detroit, Shakur has the relaxed screen presence of a young Wesley Snipes and plays perfectly off the delirious Tim Roth.
A smart, well-made buddy film about two junkies desperate to kick the habit.
This is grim material, but surprisingly entertaining, and it is more cause to mourn the recent death of Shakur, who gives his best performance as Spoon, a musician who wants to get off drugs.
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