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Chi-Raq ( / ʃaɪˈræk /) is a 2015 American musical crime comedy drama film, directed and produced by Spike Lee and co-written by Lee and Kevin Willmott. Set in Chicago, the film focuses on the gang violence prevalent in neighborhoods on the city's south side, particularly the Englewood neighborhood. [5]
Dec 2, 2016 · Chi-Raq: Directed by Spike Lee. With Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett. A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Spike Lee
- 2016-12-02
Chi-Raq is as urgently topical and satisfyingly ambitious as it is wildly uneven -- and it contains some of Spike Lee's smartest, sharpest, and all-around entertaining late-period work. Read ...
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- Spike Lee
- R
- Nick Cannon
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Nov 4, 2015 · Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata...
- 3 min
- 83.3K
- RoadsideFlix
Dec 2, 2015 · A modern adaptation of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata", the film follows a woman who leads a sex strike to end the gang wars in Chicago. The film features rap songs, rhyming dialogue, and a narrator by Samuel L. Jackson.
Dec 9, 2015 · Chi-Raq is the leader of the purple-clad Spartan gang, as well as a local hip-hop artist with big-time aspirations, and that combination of interests and talents is one of the movie’s...
