New Jack City is a 1991 American crime film directed by Mario Van Peebles making his directorial debut, and starring Peebles, Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Judd Nelson, Allen Payne and Chris Rock.
Snipes stars as Nino Brown, a rising drug dealer and crime lord in New York City during the crack epidemic. Ice-T plays a detective who vows to stop Nino's criminal activity by going undercover to work for Nino's gang.
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