Marked for Death
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| Directed by | Dwight H. Little |
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| Music by | James Newton Howard |
| Cinematography | Ric Waite |
| Edited by | O. Nicholas Brown |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12 million |
| Box office | $58 million |
Marked for Death is a 1990 American action film directed by Dwight H. Little. The film stars Steven Seagal as John Hatcher, a former DEA troubleshooter. Upon moving back to his home town of Lincoln Heights, Illinois, Hatcher finds it taken over by a gang of vicious Jamaican drug dealers. This Jamaican gang is led by gang leader Screwface using a combination of fear and Obeah, a Jamaican syncretic religion of West African and Caribbean origin similar to Haitian vodou and Santería as practiced in Cuba.
This was the first time Seagal worked with 20th Century Fox (which would not release another film featuring him until his appearance in The Onion Movie), and Machete this was the only Seagal vehicle from a studio other than Warner Bros. until the 1998 direct-to-video The Patriot.
Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher returns from Colombia, where drug dealers killed his partner Chico. As a result of Chico's death and years of dead end work, John retires and heads to his family's home in suburban Chicago. He visits the local school to meet his old friend and former U.S. Army buddy Max (Keith David) who works there as a football coach and physical education teacher.
As John and Max celebrate their reunion, a gunfight breaks out between local drug dealers and a Jamaican gang at the bar where they celebrate. The gang, known as the Jamaican Posse, is led by a notorious psychotic drug kingpin named Screwface (Basil Wallace) full of West African Vodun and . John arrests one of Screwface's henchmen as the gunfight ends. News that Posse crimes occurring in Chicago and across the United States spread as the Posse increases their crime and members. The next day, Screwface and his henchmen do a drive-by shooting on the house where John, his sister Melissa, and Melissa's 12-year-old daughter Tracey live. Tracey is injured and hospitalized in critical condition.
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