Gang Related

Director: Jim Kouf

1997 / 111min / 35mm

Tupac Shakur’s final film, wrapped two weeks before his still-controversial murder, is a gangster movie where the gang in question are the police, with Shakur and James Belushi playing a pair of crooked vice squad detectives who, after killing an undercover DEA agent in a bogus drug trafficking deal, put the blame on derelict drunk Dennis Quaid, trusting that the authority of their badges will be enough to convict him. A disarmingly dark action thriller featuring two of the most corrupt central characters you could hope to meet alongside a rogues’ gallery of supporting players that range from James Earl Jones to Kool Moe Dee, with ’Pac well represented on the bestselling Death Row Records soundtrack.