Slam (1998)

Slam (1998)

  • 6.1
  • 103 mins
  • Drama

Storyline

Ray Joshua (Saul Williams), a talented black poet from the Washington, D.C., projects, is arrested on petty drug charges and thrown into the black hole that is the D.C. jail. There he meets the two people who can redirect his life: a prison gang leader and a beautiful female poet teaching a self-expression class for inmates.



Short Review

the tension between these two positions engenders a critical dialectic along the Lucky Country's well-guarded borders of race, class and gender.


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