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1997 in film

-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...

 American

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 which follows a drug dealer and hustler who is fed up with the repetitive life style he leads and begins looking for meaning in his life. This film marked Vin Diesel's

Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel is an American actor, writer, director and producer. He became known in the early 2000s, appearing in several successful Hollywood films, including The Fast and the Furious and xXx...

 feature film directing debut.

Synopsis

Rick is frustrated by the repetitious grind of one-night stands and aimless hustling. Whilst looking for more to his life he meets Heather a neighbor. Rick takes the opportunity to escape his boring life style with her, but soon finds that his volatile behavior threatens to finish their relationship before it even really begins.

Cast

• Joey Dedio
  Joey Dedio
  Joey Dedio is an American film, television, and theatre actor. He is also a producer and screenwriter.When he was young, Dedio appeared in the NBC soap opera Another World and the television version of The Karate Kid, as well as performing the voice of Wheeler in the environmentalist cartoon show,...
  
   as Fred
• F. Valentino Morales as Tony
• Mike Epps
  Mike Epps
  Michael Elliot "Mike" Epps is an American stand-up comedian, actor, film producer, writer, singer, and rapper. He is best known for playing Day-Day Jones in Next Friday and the sequel-to-the-sequel, Friday After Next, and also starring alongside Ice Cube in All About the Benjamins...
  
   as Mike
• T.K. Kirkland as Rodney
• Darnell Williams
  Darnell Williams
  Darnell Williams is a British-born soap opera actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Jesse Hubbard on the ABC soap opera All My Children, a role which has earned him two Daytime Emmy Awards.-Biography:...
  
   as Keith
• Vin Diesel
  Vin Diesel
  Vin Diesel is an American actor, writer, director and producer. He became known in the early 2000s, appearing in several successful Hollywood films, including The Fast and the Furious and xXx...
  
   as Rick
• Suzanne Lanza as Heather