New Jersey Drive
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| Directed by | Nick Gomez |
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Larry Meistrich Bob Gosse |
| Written by |
Nick Gomez Michel Marriott |
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| Cinematography | Adam Kimmel |
| Edited by | Tracy Granger |
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| Distributed by | Gramercy Pictures |
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98 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Box office | $3,565,508 |
New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about joy riding working class teenagers in 1990s Newark, New Jersey, then known as the "car theft capital of the world". The film stars Sharron Corley, Gabriel Casseus, and Saul Stein.
The film was directed and written by Nick Gomez; produced by Larry Meistrich and Bob Gosse; executive production was credited to filmmaker Spike Lee. At the time, the city of Newark had the highest automobile theft rate in the country, and ex-city mayor Sharpe James refused to allow filming of New Jersey Drive within the city limits; therefore, the filming locations were in the surrounding locations of Newark rather than the city itself. Most of New Jersey Drive was also filmed in several New Jersey and New York locations, including East Orange, Elizabeth and Paterson; Brooklyn, Queens, Yonkers and Harlem.
Jason Petty (Sharron Corley) is a young teenage boy living with his working-class family in the violent and poverty-ridden housing projects of Newark, New Jersey. He and his troublemaking friends have a hobby of stealing cars and joyriding. Soon some of the teens, including Jason, begin to convert their hobby into a part-time job as they steal cars and sell them to a sleazy chop-shop owner for pennies on the dollar. Eventually they are caught in a police sting and one boy, Ronnie Lambs Ron Q, is shot by the crooked Officer Emil Roscoe (Saul Stein) and other police officers. They begin to run for cover and they end up at Ronnie's house whose relatives take him to the hospital. Jason informs his friends that the police ambushed them but he refuses to come forward and report the crime.
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