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Fresh
Directed by
Boaz Yakin
R
1994
1h 54m
Crime
,
Drama
,
and more
7.5
88%
91%
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Death and violence anger a twelve-year-old drug courier, who sets his employers against each other.
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Cast of Fresh
Sean Nelson
Michael (aka Fresh)
Giancarlo Esposito
Esteban
Samuel L. Jackson
Sam
N'Bushe Wright
Nichole
Ron Brice
Corky
Jean-Claude La Marre
Jake
José Zúñiga
Lt. Perez
Luis Lantigua
Chuckie
Yul Vazquez
Chille
Cheryl Freeman
Aunt Frances
Anthony Thomas
Red
Curtis McClarin
Darryl
Charles Malik Whitfield
Smokey
Guillermo Díaz
Spike
Robert M. Jimenez
Salvadore
Jerome Butler
James
Cortez Nance Jr.
Reggie
Anthony Ruiz
Hector
Jacinto Taras Riddick
Enriquez
Afi Bijou
Hilary
Natima Bradley
Rosie
Daiquan Smith
Tarleak
Jason Rodriguez
Nicholas
Mizan Ayers
Curtis
Zakee Howze
Mattie
Iraida Polanco
Rosa Vasquez
Davenia McFadden
Mrs. Coleman
Belinda Becker
Fiona
Danielia L. Cotton
Juana
Elsie Hilario
Aida
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Consuela
Ali A. Wahhab
Fat Freddie
F. Murray Abraham
Chess Hustler
Matthew Faber
Long Hair Teenager
Fresh Ratings & Reviews
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Fresh appeals to the head as well as the heart.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
The script by writer-director Boaz Yakin is fresh itself, marrying the physical violence of Fresh's world with the intellectual violence of competitive chess.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Sean Nelson is a quiet revelation as the title character, a child who actively participates in what he regards as the only game in town, yet consistently demonstrates more caution and smarts than his friends or relatives.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Sean Nelson, who turned 13 just before the film was shot, gives a fine, self-assured performance in the title role.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
You may not believe a minute of it, though you won't forget Nelson's face.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Here's a movie filled with drama and excitement, unfolding a plot of brilliant complexity, in which the central character is solemn and silent, saying only what he has to say, revealing himself only strategically.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It takes a bit to get going, but once it does, Fresh never lets up.
Newsweek
David Ansen
Though well acted, and handsomely shot by veteran Adam Holender, Fresh sacrifices real emotion for thriller contrivances. It's a tourist's drive through inner-city hell.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Glibly shocking, it would like you to think it deals with the hard realities of urban life, but in fact it uses its patina of social consciousness as a come-on for the most conventional kind of violent commercial filmmaking.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
[Fresh is] made with a subtle precision that suggests a Vermeer landscape of the ninth circle of hell.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This is kept alive largely through its first-rate performances, beginning with Sean Nelson's as the boy; Giancarlo Esposito is also a standout.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Yakin has put some powerful drama up on the screen, and he has been assisted by no one more significantly than young Nelson, who plays Fresh.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
The subject and visual style could not be more forcefully matched.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The acting by Esposito and Jackson is exceptional, but it is on the remarkable face of Nelson that Yakin shows what gets lost when a child beats criminals at their own game.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
[Fresh] is urgently lyrical, right down to its final, haunting image. And in lead performer Sean Nelson, first-time filmmaker Yakin has a 12-year-old breath of fresh air whose beatific face could launch a thousand scripts.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
Yakin may be a novice, but from the movie's first poetic images, this gifted young filmmaker tells his story with a sure, distinctly personal voice.
People Magazine
Leah Rozen
A gripping story of survival on the streets and survival of the soul.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Candice Russell
It's rigorous and quite depressing fare.
Baltimore Sun
Stephen Hunter
The movie's two instincts are at complete odds with each other.
Philadelphia Daily News
Gary Thompson
An unpredictable and harrowing story that works on the surface as an unconventional thriller (an intricate plot) and underneath as a powerful story of love, sacrifice, willpower and the dehumanizing cost of violence and revenge.
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