Paper Soldiers
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| Directed by | David V. Daniel Damon Dash |
| Produced by | Damon Dash |
| Written by |
Brian Ash Charles Murphy |
| Starring |
Beanie Sigel Kevin Hart Stacey Dash Michael Rapaport Memphis Bleek Noreaga Tiffany Withers |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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88 minutes |
| Language | English |
Paper Soldiers is an urban crime comedy released in 2002. This hip-hop comedy from Roc-A-Fella Records' film division stars Kevin Hart (in his film debut), Beanie Sigel, Stacey Dash, Kamal Ahmed, and rapper Jay-Z appears in a cameo role. Kevin Hart plays the character Shawn, a rookie thief who is part of a crew of thieves who does small-time jobs like house breaking. The crew itself is not exactly a highly polished operation, and the crew's capers result in comic mishaps far more often than actual thefts. They still manage to do some jobs like breaking into Jay-Z's house and robbing some of its material goods, but predictably, they receive prison time for robbery or aggravated assault.
Beanie Sigel plays Stu, a hot-headed hood bully that does small robberies to make some cash, Damon Dash and Memphis Bleek as a thieves of another crew, Stacey Dash as a beautiful woman named Tamika, Myxt Matanza as the bodega owner and Jay-Z as the rapper himself. It was produced by Roc-A-Fella Films and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Shawn recently lost his mother. He attends her funeral with his girlfriend Monique and their son, his friends Burtie and Johnny among others. Burtie tries to convince Shawn to do some burglary jobs, which Shawn declines at first. One day Shawn went to see his parole officer and she informs him his next urine text needs to be clean, and needs to keep his job at the beeper shop. Shawn arrives to work and receives his check, then gets upset of how low his payment is. After seeing the electricity at his house get cut off, he decides to accept Burtie's offer. In their first job, they attempted to steal money among other things they can find in the house they broke into, but failed to gain anything due to being scared off by rats they found in the dressers. They did another job the following day, this time accompanied by Johnny, and was able get what they could. Shawn is happy seeing he is receiving more money with burglaries than he is getting at his job.
Shawn and his other friend Stu, just released from jail, decides to rob a house and discovers it belongs to a famous boxer. A neighbor spotted them breaking in, and they flee. Nearby detectives Johnson and Travis receive the report and a car chase ensues as the detectives chases Shawn and Stu. Although Shawn manages to escape, Stu was arrested once again.
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