Lockdown (2000 film)

Lockdown
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Luessenhop
Produced by	Mark Burg Jeff Clanagan Oren Koules Stevie Lockett
Written by	Preston A. Whitmore II
Starring	Richard T. Jones Gabriel Casseus Master P David "Shark" Fralick De'Aundre Bonds Melissa De Sousa Bill Nunn Clifton Powell Sticky Fingaz Joe Torry
Music by	John Frizzell
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures (UK) TriStar Pictures (International) Rainforest Films (US)
Release date	September 15, 2000 (International release), February 14, 2003 (US release)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$449,482

Lockdown is a 2000 drama film, directed by John Luessenhop and starring Richard T. Jones, Clifton Powell, David "Shark" Fralick, and Master P. The film was produced by Master's P's No Limit Films, a division of his No Limit Records label.

In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Avery Montgomery (Jones) is taking time off from college to spend time with his girlfriend Krista (Melissa De Sousa), and help raise their young son. Despite the lack of black swimmers, Avery develops to a championship level, and as a result of a particularly impressive win he gets the opportunity for a possible scholarship.

Cashmere (Casseus), happens to be one of Avery's best friends since childhood. Despite the fact that their personalities and lifestyles are quite different, Avery being a level-headed straight-edge that stays out of trouble. With their friend Dre (De'aundre Bonds), the trio have been friends since childhood.

Earlier in the day before the swim meet, Cashmere had a run-in with Broadway (Sticky Fingaz), another dealer who works under Cashmere in the hierarchy. Cashmere is expected to bring back five $10 rocks. $50 is also expected or else he gets beat up or killed. Broadway happened to be short in his return, and it angered Cashmere, who proceeds to kick Broadway down a flight of metal stairs and pull out a gun to assert his power.

Broadway runs off, but vows to get revenge and, after an attempted robbery later in the day where he shoots and kills a young girl at a drive-through, he wipes off his gun and tosses it into the backseat of Cashmere's open convertible when he is out of the car, which looks similar enough to Broadway's car to be mistaken for it (the only difference being Broadway's car is a hard-top).

After the swim meet, Cashmere and Dre, who are there to cheer him on, convince Avery to come out and celebrate his big victory, but he just wants to spend some time with Krista instead. However, she tells him to go out and he changes his mind before hops in the car and they drive off. At a certain point, Dre, who is riding in the back seat, finds the gun, and questions Cashmere about violating their unwritten rule. Cashmere has no idea what he is talking about, and the three men realize that they have a strange gun, in their possession, and had no idea where it came from and what it could have been used for.