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King Of New York

R In Theaters 09/25/1990 , 106min.
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The gritty underbelly of New York's complex, ethnically divided criminal world is exposed in this dark drama from director Abel Ferrara. Christopher Walken stars as Frank White, a drug lord who's just been released from a long stint in prison. Aware that feeding off of society's depravity has made him a wealthy man, Frank has become determined to give something back to the city, and he hatches a scheme to build a multimillion-dollar public hospital in one of Brooklyn's worst ghetto neighborhoods. Needing the assistance of his fellow criminals to pull it off, Frank and his adjutant Jimmy Jump (Laurence Fishburne) encounter a wall of resistance from every faction, including drug-trade partner Lance Wong (Joey Chin) and temperamental cop Dennis Gilley (David Caruso). Frank's do-gooder efforts ultimately result in a Mob war and in a bloody showdown between the city's various ethnic criminal actions. Ferrara followed King of New York with a similarly themed film that many critics considered his masterpiece, Bad Lieutenant (1992).
  • MPAA Rating: R
  • Genre(s): Foreign
  • Run Time: 106min.
  • Theatrical Release Date: 09/25/1990
  • DVD Release Date: 08/15/2000
  • Distributor(s): New Line Cinema
  • Director(s): Abel Ferrara
  • Starring: Christopher Walken , David Caruso , Laurence Fishburne , Victor Argo , Wesley Snipes
  • Themes: Drug Trade,Criminal's Revenge
  • Tone: Confrontational,Gritty,Rousing,Tense,Visceral
  • Keywords: crime-lord,gang-war,hospital,organized-crime,police-officer
  • Country of Origin: USA (09-28-1990)
  • Language: English
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