Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq () is a 2015 American musical crime 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. The story is based on Aristophanes' Lysistrata, a Classical Greek comedy play in which women withhold sex and porn from their husbands as punishment for fighting in the Peloponnesian War. It stars Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes, Teyonah Parris, Jennifer Hudson, Angela Bassett, John Cusack, and Samuel L. Jackson. It was the first film to be produced by Amazon Studios, released in select theaters on December 4, 2015 and on their video on demand service Amazon Instant Video on December 29.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Production: LionsGate Entertainment
  5 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
77
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
R
Year:
2015
127
$2,647,378
1,575 Views

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