Dangerous Ground (1997 film)
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| Directed by | Darrell Roodt |
| Produced by | Gillian Gorfil Darrell Roodt |
| Written by | Greg Latter Darrell Roodt |
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| Music by | Stanley Clarke |
| Cinematography | Paul Gilpin |
| Edited by | David Heitner |
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Ghettobird Productions
Cube Vision Productions |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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95 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $28 million |
| Box office | $5.4 million worldwide |
Dangerous Ground is a 1997 action thriller film starring Ice Cube and Elizabeth Hurley, directed by Darrell Roodt and written by Greg Latter and Darrell Roodt.
The film opens in South Africa, during 1983. A young Vusi (Thokozani Nkosi) organizes a radical student protest that is soon put down by police, Vusi is captured and forced to leave for the United States where he settles down in the San Francisco Bay Area.
14 years later, Vusi (Ice Cube) returns to South Africa to attend his father's funeral at the village he grew up in. He is unable to bring himself to slaughter a cow as part of the funeral ritual. Vusi's younger brother Ernest, a former soldier, constantly berates him for his choice to run away to America instead of taking part in "the struggle". This angers Vusi, who tells Ernest: "I was in the struggle while you were still pissing in your pants." While talking with his mother, Vusi wonders why his youngest brother Steven was not at the funeral. His mother admits that they have not seen Steven in a while. She provides Vusi with two addresses and sends him out to find Steven.
The first address Vusi checks is Steven's apartment in Johannesburg, where he meets his brother's neighbor Karen (Elizabeth Hurley). He gives her his contact information, in case she hears anything. After checking the second address, Vusi starts driving out of Soweto. He is confronted by three armed thugs who take his car, jacket, and shirt. The thugs also break his father's spear, a family heirloom. Vusi returns to his hotel and calls his fiancée to tell her what has happened to him. He receives a note from Karen telling him to meet her at The Summit Club.
At the club, Vusi discovers Karen's occupation as a stripper. She reports hearing noises, coming from Steven's apartment. After the show, the pair returns to the apartment complex and decides to check the room. Karen climbs along the outside of the building to Steven's open window, where a thug attacks her. The thug flees, knocking over Vusi in his escape. The encounter causes Vusi to wonder what is actually going on with Steven. Karen finally confesses that Steven had borrowed cocaine on "credit" from a drug dealer named Muki (Ving Rhames). Steven was initially planning to sell the drug and make enough money for Karen and him to travel to the United States and visit Vusi. Steven instead took the money and drugs for himself.
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