GRIDLOCK'D

'''Gridlock'd''' is a 1997 film starring Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, and Thandie Newton. It was the directorial debut of Vondie Curtis-Hall, who also wrote the story and screenplay. The film's opening was relatively low, despite critical acclaim for its powerful and gritty substance. Its opening weekend netted $3,603,049 and it finished finally at only $5.5 million. The film paid tribute to star Tupac Shakur who had been murdered several months before the films release.

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Plot

Cast

Production

Tagline

See also

References

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Plot

Heroin addicts Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their habit after their best friend and bandmate, Cookie, overdoses on her first hit. Throughout a disastrous day, the two addicts dodge police and local criminals while struggling with an apathetic government bureaucracy that bars their entrance into a rehabilitation program.

Cast

★ Tupac Shakur - Ezekiel 'Spoon' Whitmore

★ Tim Roth - Alexander 'Stretch' Rawland

★ Thandie Newton - Barbara 'Cookie' Cook

★ Charles Fleischer - Mr. Woodson

★ Howard Hesseman - Blind Man

★ John Sayles - Cop #1

★ Eric Payne - Cop #2

★ Tom Towles - D-Reper's Henchman

★ Tom Wright - Koolaid

★ Lucy Liu - Cee-Cee (as Lucy Alexis Liu)

★ Richmond Arquette - Resident Doctor

★ Billie Neal - Medicaid Woman #1

★ Elizabeth Peña - Admissions Person (as Elizabeth Anne Dickinson)

★ Vondie Curtis-Hall - D-Reper

Production

''Gridlock'd'' marked the directorial debut of actor Vondie Curtis-Hall. He wrote the screenplay in 1993 and based it on actual life experience as a junkie during the 1970s. Roth Justice John Mosby Much like the characters in the film, Hall and a friend sought treatment for their addiction only to be told that it would take weeks to get admitted into rehab. He sent actor Tim Roth the screenplay while he was making ''Rob Roy''. Roth was drawn to the project because of the humor in the screenplay as he remarked in an interview, "Normally, you'd work through a screenplay and say, 'We'll have to change that and that and somehow try to make it work,' but here the dialogue was always dead-on." UnAmerican Psycho John Mosby Hall met Roth and convinced him to do the movie. Tupac Shakur auditioned for his role, got it and then met Roth.

Tagline

★ '''Good' time to kick 'Bad' day to pick''

★ ''Life's a Traffic jam''

See also

★ Gridlock'd (Original Soundtrack)

References

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