Director Nick Gomez's second effort maintains the gritty realism of his earlier Laws of Gravity, as it traces the fall of a gang of car-stealing Newark black kids who run up against a trigger-happy cop. Too one-sided (the film had to make the cops bad in order to make the kids halfway sympathetic), New Jersey Drive is definitely not about poor urban youth driven to crime: these kids are in it for fun and new sneakers. (R. Pitman)[DVD Review--March 22, 2005--Universal, 98 min., R, $12.99--Making its second appearance on DVD, 1995's New Jersey Drive is presented with an excellent anamorphic widescreen transfer and a fine Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack (as well as stereo), and 23 minutes worth of deleted scenes. Bottom line: a still solid street drama, this is recommended.]
New Jersey Drive
(MCA/Universal, 98 min., R, avail. Sept. 26) Vol. 10, Issue 5
New Jersey Drive
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