Strapped

VHS, 95 minutes, HBO / WARNER

This gritty urban thriller takes you under the skin of the street where you play hard or don't play at all. Diquan has few choices in life - and when his pregnant girlfriend ends up in jail for drug-dealing, he's got even less. Desperate to free her, Diquan can either cut a deal with Police Lt. McRae and turn informer, or he can sell guns on the streets to make bail. Diquan decides to do both, joining his buddy Bamboo, dealing pistols, shotguns and semi-automatics, while feeding Lt. McRae the information he needs to raid their supplier. When Bamboo discovers that his partner's selling information, the street is the last place Diquan wants to be. All the firepower of the projects is about to be set loose, and it's pointing in one direction. But Diquan's ready. Diquan's strapped.