Fresh (1994)

 

Release date: August 19, 1994

Director: Boaz Yakin

Writer: Boaz Yakin

Starring: Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, N'Bushe Wright, Samuel L. Jackson

Estimated budget: $3.5 million

Box office: $8 million

 

Fresh (Sean Nelson) is a 12-year-old drug dealer who finds himself trapped in a web of poverty, corruption and racial tension in Brooklyn, New York. When his drug-addict sister Nichole (N'Bushe Wright) starts sleeping with local drug lord Esteban (Giancarlo Esposito), Fresh calls upon the skills he learned playing chess with his alcoholic father and speed-chess champion Sam (Samuel L. Jackson) and devises a complex strategy that will free both himself and his sister.