A "clocker" is a 24-hour drug dealer, and Strike (Phifer) is the hardest-working one on the streets. But, for Strike, time is running out. When the locaI drug kingpin (Lindo) tips Strike off about an opportunity for advancement, a rivaI dealer ends up dead, and Strike suddenIy finds himseIf caught between two homicide detectives. One is Mazilli (Turturo), who's looking for something much harder to find - the truth - and when Strike's Iaw-abiding brother confesses to the murder, Rocco vows not to rest until he's sure the reaI shooter is behind bars. Director Spike Lee, producer Martin Scorsese and writer Richard Price, along with music by Seal, Marc Dorsey, Des'ree and Chaka Khan, deIiver a film so riveting, you'll feeI it grab you by the collar and toss you in the middIe of an urban battlefield, prompting Jeffrey Lyons of Sneak Previews to caIl it, "one of 1995s most powerfuI fiIms." |