Movies

November, 1995

Life In a Brooklyn housing project catches up with two brothers--Victor, a hardworking family man, and Strike, who peddles drugs to support his love of model trains. Cast as the Dunham boys, Isaiah Washington and movie newcomer Mekhi Phifer score big in writer-director Spike Lee's disturbing Clockers (Universal), based on the novel by Richard (The Color of Money) Price. Lee adds some cinematic poetry to this tale of inner-city angst, all about a senseless murder ordered by a local drug kingpin (...