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Slam (1998)
Directed by Marc Levin
“Words make sense of a world that won't.”
Drama · 1h 44m
Raymond Joshua, a young black performance poet, is arrested and imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge in a Washington, D.C. jail. Although the confining prison walls do little to shield him from danger, it is within those walls that Raymond establishes his identity, strength, and voice and meets a prison gang leader and a prison writing teacher, Lauren Bell. Bell inspires Raymond to use the power of creative expression to free himself from the struggles and demise of the Black male as another victim of the judicial system.
Cast
Saul Williams
Ray Joshua
Sonja Sohn
Lauren Bell
B
Bonz Malone
Hopha
L
Lawrence Wilson
Big Mike
Beau Sia
Jimmy Huang
A
Andre Taylor
China
M
Momolu Stewart
Bay (Jail Rapper)
R
Ron Jones
Do Wop Cop
R
Reamer Shedrick
Do Wop Cop
A
Allan E. Lucas
Chief C.O.
D
Dominic Chianese Jr.
Officer Dom
J
Jerome Goldman
Jail Class Poet 'Why'
Crew
- Director
- Marc Levin
- Screenplay
- Richard Stratton, Sonja Sohn, Saul Williams, Bonz Malone, Marc Levin
- Director of Photography
- Mark Benjamin
- Original Music Composer
- DJ Spooky
- Editor
- Emir Lewis
- Producer
- Marc Levin, Henri M. Kessler, Richard Stratton
Details
- Release date
- 1998-10-07
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Off Line Entertainment Group