![]() It’s that priceless dialogue, the bitter ironies, the magnificently skeevy cast of characters and even the overall structure that make “The Seven Five” “Goodfellas” in blue. “The ghetto is one of the richest neighborhoods there is.” Kenny Eurell Sundance Selects “Forget about Beverly Hills and all that other stuff,” says another cop. Using tactics learned at the police academy to rob rival dealers, he’d call out, “What the f - - k you doing with my money?” Kenny, his partner, joined his life of crime in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood. Michael Dowd, at first a decent cop making $600 a week, began pocketing bricks of money he found in dealers’ houses, then went on the payroll of a local cocaine emperor for $8,000 a week. “The Seven Five,” a riveting documentary about Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct, takes place in 5 square miles of hell on Earth in the 1980s. They steal bags of money, pocket drugs, work as bodyguards for big-time dealers. ![]() Mike and Kenny are a couple of regular guys who get drawn into the gang world around them. Rated R (profanity, violent images, drug references). ![]()
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