Dead Presidents

Dead Presidents

In this daring heist, the only color that counts is green

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Release Date

9/29/1995

Runtime

119 mins

Overview

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$24,100,000

Homepage

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A gritty, sprawling chronicle of young Black men fractured by Vietnam who turn to heist and crime in a system that offers them no other path. It's as much about the psychological devastation of war as it is the crime plot that propels it.

Mood

BleakTenseDefiantMournful

Themes

WarSurvivalFriendshipComing apartRedemptionClass

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Steady

Look

Documentary-likeNaturalistic

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Graphic violence

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