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Released
1992 · FILM

Juice

Four Harlem friends plot a convenience‑store heist to claim power and respect, but their fragile alliance shatters as personal ambitions and deadly stakes force them into a violent showdown for survival.

“In the Ghettos of Harlem you don't buy respect... you earn it.”

Directed by
Ernest Dickerson
Written by
Ernest Dickerson, Gerard Brown
Runtime
96 min
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Four friends from Harlem—Bishop, Q, Steel, and Raheem—are involved in minor criminal activities, but they decide to escalate their actions by robbing a convenience store. Bishop, the charismatic leader of the group, is in possession of the gun. Q, however, has other ambitions; he aspires to be a DJ and has a scheduled gig on the night of the planned robbery. Unfortunately for Q, Bishop is not willing to accept refusal in a situation where stakes are high and nothing is left to chance.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sam PollardShot by Larry BanksScored by The Bomb SquadDesigned by Lester Cohen

Box Office

1992 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$20.1M

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$20.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $9.1M — 45% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $9.1M — 45% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,089 theaters

Also known as

  • Juice - City Warde

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