Clockers

Clockers (1995) is Spike Lee's crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, starring Mekhi Phifer, Harvey Keitel and Delroy Lindo. 128 minutes, no wasted frames.

Strike is a low-level drug pusher working the Brooklyn projects under dealer Rodney Little. He wants out. Rodney offers a promotion — if Strike takes care of a rival. The rival ends up dead. Strike's older, law-abiding brother walks into the police station and confesses. Detective Rocco Klein — Keitel — doesn't believe a word of it. His partner Mazilli is ready to stamp the case closed. Rocco keeps pulling the thread.

Lee adapted Richard Price's 1992 novel from a screenplay Price wrote himself, keeping the book's granular portrait of street-level economics and police procedure. Cinematographer Malik Hassan Sayeed shot the Brooklyn housing projects in a near-documentary style — the heat and the claustrophobia are physical. Stream Clockers (1995) online on iFILM.