Gridlock'd

Gridlock'd (1997)

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.

Data de estreia
1997-01-29
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (258)
Duração
1 h 31 min
Géneros
Comédia, Crime, Drama
Realizador
Vondie Curtis-Hall

Elenco

Curiosidades

  • Filmado em: Los Angeles

Gridlock'd is a 1997 American crime black comedy drama film written and directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall, and starring Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, Lucy Liu, and Thandiwe Newton. It follows two heroin addicts, who decide to kick the habit following the overdose of their bandmate. They confront the police and local criminals, while bureaucracy prevents them from entering a drug rehabilitation program. Curtis-Hall had a small role for the film.

Production

Curtis-Hall drew from some of his own experiences growing up in Detroit to make the film. During his teenage years, he was a guitarist and vocalist in Detroit's punk rock scene. During this time, he and his peers began using heroin, with Curtis-Hall recounting the drug "was really a competitive thing we did, to be accepted.

Curtis-Hall had kicked the drug by the time he graduated high school in 1974, saying,

"One day my best friend, the bassist, and I were sitting around and decided that maybe we could actually play better if we weren't stoned all the time." In the attempt to get clean, Curtis-Hall said that he and his friend sought assistance from public detoxification programs, but were constantly confronted with red tape. He said, "I was living at home and I didn’t want [my parents] to know about it.

Curtis-Hall said it was not easy to get the film financed because of its taboo subject of heroin, "and people were expecting it to be a real depressing movie about a couple of dope fiends." He took the project to Live Entertainment, PolyGram Films and Def Pictures, a subsidiary of PolyGram.

Roth requested to be in the film upon reading the script after starring in Rob Roy. Tupac was cast after Laurence Fishburne, the director's first choice, was not available. The rapper was recommended to Curtis-Hall by Preston Holmes, the president of Def Pictures. Said Curtis-Hall, "Pac had just gotten out of jail [after a 1995 sexual abuse conviction in New York] and no one wanted to touch him.

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