The Cool World
HOOKER! FUZZ! JUNK! RUMBLE! These are words that mean big trouble in...
A gritty, jazz-inflected portrait of youth desperation and gang culture in Harlem, examining how poverty and systemic racism drive adolescents toward violence.
A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem.
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