Adapted into a stage musical by Harvey Fierstein.
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Ironically Martin Sheen character the Judge (who says he was a WWII Vet) was in the Vietnam war movie Apocalypse Now (1979) 16 years earlier.
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All police officers depicted in this movie are from the fictional 53rd Precinct. This precinct was also used in the television series Car 54, Where Are You?? (1961) and Baretta (1975).
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Even though it was written after In Too Deep, Dead Presidents was sold before his first script, In Too Deep, was sold.
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The word "fuck" and its variants are spoken 247 times.
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Michael Imperoli (D'Ambrosio), Tony Sirico (Officer Spinelli) and Bokeem Woodbine (Cleon) would all later appear in the Sopranos episode "A Hit is a Hit". Imperoli and Sirico as mob enforcers Chris Moltisanti and Paulie Gualtieri and Woodbine as fictional music producer Massive Genius.
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Martin Sheen, who makes a cameo appearance as "The Judge" in Dead Presidents, would be in his son Emilio Estevez's feature film The Way (2010), also casted by Mary Vernieu, 15 years later as a protagonist.
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Delilah uses a blued Colt Government Model, as well as an M1911A1, during the armored car heist.
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In the pool game scene between Cowboy & Anthony the song playing is "The Payback" by James Brown.
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Though not specifically stated, Curtis, Cleon and Skip belonged to a unit in the 1st Marine Recon Battalion. This is confirmed late in the movie when Cleon is seen wearing a patch with the 1st Marine Recon Battalion insignia on it.
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During the robbery, a nickel plated model M1911A1 is used by both Kirby (Keith David), who fires a whopping 11 rounds without locking, and Skip uses one to kill a NYPD Officer.
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The cab driver at the beginning of the movie is a throwback to Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976).
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Keith David (Kirby) fought in the Vietnam war 9 years earlier in the war movie Platoon (1986).
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The role of Delilah was offered to Jada Pinkett-Smith, who turned it down. The reason was because her long-time friend, rapper Tupac Shakur, had had an altercation with one of the film's directors Allen Hughes on the set of her previous film Menace II Society and was fired.
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Out of the 3 Friday movies Friday (1995), Next Friday (2000) & Friday After Next (2002) Chris Tucker (Skip), Clifton Powell (Cutty), & Sticky Fingaz (Martin) made an appearance in at least one of them
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The film features five actors from Menace II Society (1993), the first feature film by the Hughes brothers. They are: Larenz Tate, Clifton Powell, James Pickens Jr., Ryan Williams and Clifton Collins Jr. Like Menace II Society, Dead Presidents credits Collins Jr. as "Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez."
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dead Presidents - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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