Closer than two brothers, these junkie musicians vow to kick their habits after a soul-shattering New Year's Eve. Off-beat humor lightens a bleak reality as these outcasts run smack against a brutal bureaucracy. Except for a tired subplot meant to jazz up the action, director Vondie Curtis-Hall employs an inventive approach in this sadly ignored theatrical release. Bullet is a hard criminal who's just been released out of jail. His criminal bodies were waiting for him at the gate and soon the act of crime and drugs starts again.
Some old settlements has to be taking care of.
In no time a new drugwar in the neighbourhood begins. But Kyle is going to play in the neighborhood Shoot-Out, a tournament held in Rucker's Playground. Janet Jackson plays a beautician and poet who withdraws into herself after her boyfriend is murdered by gangsters. The late Tupac Shakur plays a postman who tries to get through to her, and the two travel on a course through urban America, connecting with family and community. Singleton has so much on his mind that the film comes out a terrible muddle, but there is a certain integrity peeking through the fog.