Hoodlum
130 minutes,
USA (1997), 18
Average user rating 
(5 / 2 votes)
(5 / 2 votes)
A carefully plotted and compelling slice of African-American history about gang-warfare in 1930s Harlem. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) is the jobbing gangster who locks horns with Tim Roth's ruthless Dutch Schultz
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Hoodlum: Bill Duke's drama faced an unjustified straight-to-video arrival in the UK. The story of Bumpy Johnson (Fishburne) deserved better. A hustler and opportunist, Johnson was the first black gangster to realize the financial gain of the numbers racket, which gave him a chance to graduate from 1930s America and the Great Depression...
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