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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Release Date: Oct 9, 1998
Running Time: 92 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Blending conventions of fictional and documentary cinema, a story about the prison relationship between a rapper and a teacher that inspires the former to improve conditions on the streets of Washington DC.
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Raymond 'Ray' Joshua
Lauren Bell
Jimmy Huang
Hopha
Big Mike
Public Defender
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China
Bay--Jail Rapper
Doo Wop Cop
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April 11, 2001
Does the idea of a poetry-reading contest strike you as a snore? Snap out of it. Slam, a breakthrough debut in features from documentarian Marc Levin, cuts to the grieving heart of a hip-hop nation forged out of grit and grace. Ray (Saul Williams) rots in a Washington, D.C., jail, charged with drug trafficking -- another black male reduced to a statistic in the city's ghetto.Except that Ray has a voice. In his cell and in the prison courtyard, he raps out his rage. The words, of Ray's own…
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