Juice (1992)

 

Release Date: January 17, 1992

Director: Ernest Dickerson

Writer(s): Gerard Brown

Starring: Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Khalil Kain, Jermaine Hopskins

Estimated budget: $5 million

U.S. Box office: $20,146,880

 

Four Harlem friends -- Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Q (Omar Epps), Steel (Jermaine Hopkins) and Raheem (Khalil Kain) -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.