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New Jersey Drive

New Jersey Drive

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 19, 1995

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Crime, Drama

User Score

60%

Original Title

New Jersey Drive

Production Companies

40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Gramercy Pictures

Director

Nick Gomez

Budget

$5,000,000

Description

New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts when they steal a police car and the cops launch a violent offensive that involves beating and even shooting suspects.