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Gridlock'd (1997)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:26
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: When a friend OD's and winds up in a coma, a mismatched pair of Detroit junkies strive to seek help in kicking their heroin habit in government-sponsored programs, only to find themselves drowning... [More]
Starring: Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, Thandie Newton, Vondie Curtis-Hall
Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall
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So just when Roth and Shakur's clowning closeness nearly transcends the subject, the film throws up a bunch of flashy edits and MTV-esque close-ups that trivialize it. Junkies just can't win.
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The film does occasionally lapse into silly slapstick and caricature, but most of the way this is a tough, funny and scary cautionary tale.
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A hard-edged, darkly funny satire about two Detroit junkies who discover if they want to go straight, they'll have to climb a Mt. Everest of forms, paperwork, office referrals, waiting rooms, rules and regulations.
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Gridlock'd is refreshing because it's different. The subject matter isn't new, but the approach and tone are.
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Top CriticA smart, well-made buddy film about two junkies desperate to kick the habit.
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Top CriticA surprisingly light-hearted comedy about what happens when two self-imposed exiles from society decide to go straight and look to the system for a little help.
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Tupac Shakur turned in an excellent final performance.
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The film is often quite funny, deftly walking the thin line between the harrowing and the hilarious.
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This is grim material, but surprisingly entertaining, and it is more cause to mourn the recent death of Shakur, who gives his best performance as Spoon, a musician who wants to get off drugs.
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Top CriticIn Gridlock'd, an oddly effective combination of gritty drama and social satire, Shakur and his co-star Tim Roth take sketchy characters and make them exciting to watch through the pure energy of their talent and chemistry.
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Gridlock'd is a seemingly low budget film that covers the same ground as Trainspotting, but not as imaginatively.
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Top CriticA black, but certainly not a bleak, comedy, Gridlock'd is a wonderfully realized comment on the entanglements of beaurocracy at its most ridiculous.
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