Once in the Life
4.6 /10 1 Votes
2/4 Roger Ebert 52% Metacritic Genre Crime, Drama Running time 1h 47m Story by Laurence Fishburne Language English | 5.3/10 IMDb 28% Rotten Tomatoes Director Laurence Fishburne Duration Screenplay Laurence Fishburne Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 2000 Writer Laurence Fishburne (play), Laurence Fishburne (screenplay) Cast Eamonn Walker (Tony), Michael Paul Chan (Buddha), Dominic Chianese Jr. (Freddie Nine Lives), Laurence Fishburne (20 / 20 Mike), Gregory Hines (Ruffhouse)Similar movies Reindeer Games (2000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Once in the Life is a 2000 film written by, directed by, and starring Laurence Fishburne. Fishburne adapted the script from his own play, Riff-Raff.
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Plot
Once in the life of drug dealing and organized crime, can anyone get out? During a brief jail stay, two half-brothers, who have rarely seen each other while growing up, connect. One of them, called 20/20 Mike because he can sense people nearby, concocts a scheme in which the two of them will steal drugs from young couriers. The heist goes awry when Billy, the junkie brother, shoots the victims of the theft. The brothers hole up in an abandoned building, and 20/20 Mike seeks help from an old cellmate, Tony, whom he thinks is out of the life. It turns out that they have stolen Tony's dope, and Tony's boss wants the two thieves dead. Is there any way out?
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Production
Much of the film was shot in the Hotel Rivieria in Newark, New Jersey.
References
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