Fresh (1994)

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Love the Hard Way

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Rating: R

Release Date: Jan 1, 1994

Running Time: 115 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

Country Of Origin: France

starring: Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright, Ron Brice, Jean Claude LaMarre, José Zúniga, Luis Lantigua, Yul Vazquez, Cheryl Freeman

director: Boaz Yakin

Fresh, a 12-year-old dealer from Brooklyn, maneuvers local drug pushers against one another after a friend is shot.

February 13, 2001

This powerful and moving debut from writer and director Boaz Yakin may have a 12-year-old protagonist, but you won't mistake it for Disney. Fresh, played with riveting intensity by Sean Nelson, runs heroin and crack after school, then goes home to the Brooklyn, N.Y., projects where he lives with his Aunt Frances (Cheryl Freeman) and 11 cousins. His junkie sister, Nichole (N'Bushe Wright), has moved in with her abusive boyfriend. Fresh has been warned against seeing his homeless dad, Sam (Samuel…