Clockers

Based on the book by Richard Price, Spike Lee’s Clockers is an intercity drama about Brooklyn’s homicide detective Rocco (Keitel) and his partner Mazilli (Turturro) who work the streets of a drug-infested housing project to find the person who murdered a drug dealer. Their investigation leads them to two brothers who are as opposite as good and evil. Victor (Isaish Washington) is a clean-cut family man who works two jobs and leads a respectable life. His younger brother Strike (Phifer) is a “clocker” working for the ruthless drug lord Rodney Little (Lindo). One of the brothers is guilty of the crime, and it’s up to Rocco and Mazilli to unravel the truth.