Spoon feels duty-bound to Stretch, who stops at nothing for a buzz and has a nose for trouble. Without a Medicaid card, he discovers, he can't get treatment and his attempts to get one are blocked by a legion of cynical, unfeeling case workers and government clerks.
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But his upbeat intentions - and here's the running joke of the movie - are consistently thwarted.
He only uses heroin to keep from undergoing nasty withdrawal. After all, he tells Stretch, the thrill is gone. Spoon makes an immediate New Year's resolution to kick his habit. Stretch and Spoon have no choice but to wait. How's he supposed to know her Social Security number? Finally, Cookie's rushed into an operating room. While Cookie hovers on the edge of death, Spoon is obliged to fill out an endless, baffling questionnaire. Stretch and Spoon rush her to the emergency room, only to be stalled by bureaucracy. One New Year's Eve, Cookie falls into a coma after dabbling with the white stuff. They're no-rent Detroit musicians - and junkies - who play in a trippy-jazzy trio with chanteuse Cookie (Thandie Newton). (And more tragically, Shakur, who was killed by gunfire last September, won't be around for any movie.) In this hard-edged seriocomedy, written and directed by Vondie Curtis Hall, expectations are wonderfully shattered.įor starters, Stretch (Roth) and Spoon (Shakur) aren't cops. After the inevitable racial clashing ("Don't you honkies know anything?" etc.), they turn into a beautiful dream team, just in time for the sequel.
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They're thrown into an intense murder case - something involving drugs, gun-running or a serial killer. Shakur's the jive talker he's forced to work with. Why else would you have this two-tone teaming? Roth's the uptight officer, you figure, who just lost his (probably white) partner. Before seeing this movie, which stars Tim Roth and the late Tupac Shakur, you couldn't be blamed for assuming it's just another business-as-usual, interracial, cop-buddy picture. When it comes to "Gridlock'd," first impressions will trip you up. 'Gridlock'd': Surprisingly Footloose By Desson Howe
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