Clockers

(Spike Lee, US 1995, 128 min., DCP)

Strike (Mekhi Phifer) is a clocker, a low-level drug dealer who works around the clock. He is also an emergency case whose allies are indistinguishable from his enemies, especially the two who hold his fate in their hands: a paternal but vicious boss (Delroy Lindo) who offers to advance Strike's "career" if he eliminates the competition; and Harvey Keitel as a twenty-year veteran cop determined to nail the both of them. In such a world, no one is immune from the potential for tragedy, not even those who try to do the right thing.