Chi-Raq is a 2015 American musical crime comedy drama film, directed by Spike Lee, starring Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes, Teyonah Parris, Jennifer Hudson, Angela Bassett, John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson.
Plot[]
After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris) organize against the on-going violence in Chicago's Southside creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world.
Spike Lee filmography |
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| Feature films directed: | She's Gotta Have It (1986) • School Daze (1988) • Do the Right Thing (1989) • Mo' Better Blues (1990) • Jungle Fever (1991) • Malcolm X (1992) • Crooklyn (1994) • Clockers (1995) • Girl 6 (1996) • Get on the Bus (1996) • He Got Game (1998) • Summer of Sam (1999) • Bamboozled (2000) • 25th Hour (2002) • She Hate Me (2004) • Inside Man (2006) • Miracle at St. Anna (2008) • Red Hook Summer (2012) • Oldboy (2013) • Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014) • Chi-Raq (2015) • BlacKkKlansman (2018) |
| Documentaries directed: | 4 Little Girls (1997) • Freak (1998) • The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) • A Huey P. Newton Story (2001) • The Concert for New York City (2001, "Come Rain or Come Shine") • Jim Brown: All-American (2002) • When the Levees Broke (2006) • Kobe Doin' Work (2009) • Passing Strange (2009) If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise • Bad 25' (2012) • Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016) |
| Other films directed: | Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983) • Lumière and Company (1995) • Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002, segment "We Wuz Robbed") •All the Invisible Children (2005, segment "Jesus Children of America") |
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