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In the 80's, in Harlem, the simple Afro-American worker of a laundry, Ace, is seduced by the easy money of his friend Mitch and when Mitch is arrested, he builds an illegal empire, only to have a crisis of conscience.
This familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences, though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times.
Very familiar, yes, but a stylish and above all well-acted tale of friendships gone sour and the inevitable steep price of crime -- a much better movie than it's ever going to get credit for.