GRIDLOCK’d

100419 / 16 / US / 1997 / Curtis-Hall, Vondie / comedy

GRIDLOCK’d / GRIDLOCK’d. PC: PolyGram. D+SC: Vondie Curtis Hall. M: Tupac Shakur, Vondie Curtis Hall, etc., performed by Critters Buggin’, Eight Mile Road, etc. CAST: Tim Roth, Tupac Shakur, Thandie Newton. 92’. 1,85. MPAA 34985. Rating R = 17. BBFC: 18. Finnish subtitles by Cinema Mondo. DIST: Cinema Mondo. Viewed at VET, Helsinki, 6 October 1997. *** Detroit. Comic verve never fails in the New Year’s Day adventure of three heroin-addicted musicians, the lady member of whom lands into hospital in coma. The two guys try desperately to get into rehabilitation. It resembles The Lost Weekend in the way the grimness of addiction is played for comedy. The duo has even touches of Laurel & Hardy. The risk of making comedy about an addiction to a lethal drug is great, but so is the payoff. The soundtrack is first rate. The leading trio of actors form the music/poetry group Eight Mile Road. GRIDLOCK’d = jammed. The dedication: For Tupac - ”One Road” - R.I.P.