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Dead Presidents is a 1995 American crime film co-written, produced and directed by the Hughes Brothers. The film chronicles the life of Anthony Curtis ( Larenz Tate ), focusing on his teenage years as a high school graduate and his experiences during the Vietnam War as a Recon Marine.
Oct 6, 1995 · A Vietnam vet returns home to the Bronx and gets involved in a daring armed robbery of old bills. The film explores the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the war and their disillusionment with social progress in the 1960s.
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran (Larenz Tate) is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime....
As desperation takes hold, Anthony teams up with Skip (Chris Tucker), a drug addict, and Kirby (Keith David), a small-time crook, to pull off a bank heist that will...
In the spring of 1969, Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate) is about to graduate from high school. However, Anthony is not going to college, but needing to get away from home to find himself, he enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps shortly after graduating high school.
Soldier Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate) returns to his Bronx home after a nightmarish tour of duty in Vietnam. But the nightmare continues for Anthony and his friends as they suffer the indignities...
A film by the Hughes Brothers about a young black man's drift into crime and violence in the late '60s. Ebert praises the film's skill and realism, but criticizes its incomplete story and meaning.
