1995 · crime · drama · social
New Jersey Drive
Directed by Nick Gomez1h 38m1995
Jason and Midget are two young, black teenagers living in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial car theft capital of the world. Their favourite pastime is that of everybody in their neighbourhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts when they steal a police car and the cops launch a violent offensive that involves beating and even shooting suspects.
Our read: New Jersey Drive (1995) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded crime · drama · social entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
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