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Where was Hoodlum filmed?

1997 film, directed by Bill Duke.

  • New York City

The story is set in New York City, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
New York City
Filmed in
New York City

About Hoodlum

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Released
1997
Director
Bill Duke
Cast
Laurence FishburneTim RothVanessa WilliamsAndy GarciaCicely TysonChi McBrideRichard BradfordWilliam AthertonLoretta DevineQueen Latifah
Genre
DramaCrime ThrillerAction

The story

In 1934, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson is released from Sing Sing and returns to Harlem, where mobster Dutch Schultz asserts his control of the lucrative numbers game.

Walking Francine home from a club, Bumpy charms her with his poetry.

At a party, a 17-year-old named Tyrone asks Bumpy for a job, and Francine struggles to reconcile her feelings for Bumpy with his criminal ways.

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