Sleight (film)
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| Directed by | J.D. Dillard |
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| Music by | Charles Scott IV |
| Cinematography | Ed Wu |
| Edited by | Joel Griffen |
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Diablo Entertainment
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89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $250,000 |
| Box office | $3.9 million |
Sleight is a 2016 American drama film about a street magician in Los Angeles. The film is directed by J.D. Dillard, written by Dillard and Alex Theurer and stars Jacob Latimore, Seychelle Gabriel, Dulé Hill, Storm Reid, Sasheer Zamata and Michael Villar. The film was released on April 28, 2017, by WWE Studios and BH Tilt. The film received positive reviews from critics and has grossed $3 million worldwide, against its $250,000 budget.
A young street magician named Bo (Jacob Latimore) is left to care for his little sister after their parents' death and turns to illegal activities to keep a roof over their heads.
By day Bo performs magic tricks all over Los Angeles, with his specialty as being able to control anything metal, even float it in the air. He does this by building an electromagnet into his arm, with the negative ion of the battery running to his thumb and the positive ion running to his fingers. He first developed the electromagnet in high school for a science project, which earned him an engineering scholarship but he had to turn it down in order to take care of his sister after his mom died.
By night he sells drugs to pay the bills, seeing it as steady work with his supplier Angelo usually being a nice guy. However, things get ugly when a new kingpin comes in and starts selling drugs for cheaper on their turf. Angelo has Bo find this kingpin, so Bo uses his pickpocketing skills as a magician when he goes to a club that the new kingpin has his dealers sell at, which is also managed by one of Bo's friends.
Bo asks one of the dealers for drugs and pickpockets his phone to look up his call history and finds out from there that his supplier's name is Maurice. Angelo finds where Maurice lives, invades his house with Bo and forces Bo to chop off his hand.
Bo then gets in too deep when he tries to cut $15,000 of the money he makes off of drug dealing to himself so him and his sister can move away. When Angelo finds out, he threatens to kill Bo unless he can come up with $45,000 in one week. Bo finds the money but has to steal from his friend that owns the club to get the last $9,000. He does that by watching her unlock the safe when she invites him up to the main office and pickpockets the office keys as they leave. He waits to have one last drink with his friend, feeling guilty for having stolen from her yet relieved he just may make it out of this mess.
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