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Chi-Raq
Spike Lee’s signature flair imbues this tale of the women of Chicago joining in a bipartisan effort to end the violence in their neighborhoods.
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Director
Spike Lee
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With
Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Samuel L Jackson
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USA 2015. 127min
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Digital
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Certificate
15
Spike Lee’s audacious, rampaging hip-hop musical transposes Aristophanes’ Lysistrata from 411BC to contemporary Chicago, complete with rhyming verse and Samuel L. Jackson as a besuited Greek chorus. When a child is killed in a feud between rival gangs, Lysistrata initiates a sex strike to prevent war. Fuelled by rage and unwavering in its passion, this is a powder keg of a film.
Ruby McGuigan
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