Sucker Free City
Sucker Free City is a 2004 American crime drama television film directed by Spike Lee and written by Alex Tse. The film examines white, black, and Chinese characters in San Francisco and the conflicts they encounter with each other. The film was intended to be the pilot for a Showtime television series, but Showtime declined to pick up the series. The film was first screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and was subsequently broadcast on Showtime.
The title of the film derives from "Sucka Free", a slang term in reference to the city often used by natives of Hunters Point and The Fillmore. The term was popularized by the rappers San Quinn, JT the Bigga Figga and most notably the song "Sucka Free" from Rappin' 4-Tay's 1994 album Don't Fight the Feelin'.
Synopsis
The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on the side. K-Luv is a member of the "V-Dubs", an African-American street gang. Lincoln is a rising figure in the Chinese mafia.Gentrification forces Nick's family to move out of their home in the Mission District into Hunters Point, [San Francisco, California|Hunter's Point], where they are harassed by the V-Dubs. K-Luv's side business of selling bootleg compact discs leads him to enlist Nick's help to bootleg CDs and to negotiate a truce with Lincoln. Lincoln conducts an affair with his boss's daughter Angela, a Stanford student engaged to medical student classmate Edwin.