Super Fly (1972)
Directed by Gordon Parks Jr.
Priest, a New York City drug kingpin, devises a scheme to get out of the business and retire with a big payday, but his plans are complicated when a street dealer rats him out to the police.
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What critics compared Super Fly to
American Gangster reminds one of The French Connection, The Godfather, Scarface; some have called it Super Fly vs. Serpico -- the list could go on and on, really.
Crowe's paper-shuffling busywork feels perfunctory, compared with Washington's glamorous world with its "Super Fly" affectations, cautionary temptations and complex moral code.
It’s “Super Fly”—which also had a drug-dealer hero—without the cartoon cruddiness and the put-on violence and with an enormous increase of range and detail: How is the drug business actually done?
Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is the leader, the son of single mom whose only contact with his Nigerian father was a gift: a copy of dad's favorite movie, "Super Fly." (Thanks, Pop!) Malcolm has an open manner and a flattop that would make the Fresh Prince jealous -- and he thinks "Summertime " is a classic.
On one hand, Malcolm’s “Super Fly”-inspired plan to force A.J. into pulling some strings at Harvard is no different than, say, a rich White kid whose father and grandfather went to Yale using their influence to get in despite not having the grades for it.