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Bullet (1996 film)

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Bullet
Company typeFilm
IndustryFilm industry
Founded1996
FounderJulien Temple (director), Mickey Rourke (screenplay)
Headquarters
Brooklyn, New York City
,
United States
ProductsCrime film

Bullet is a 1996 American crime film helmed by director Julien Temple, with a screenplay authored by Mickey Rourke and Bruce Rubenstein. The film features performances by Rourke alongside Tupac Shakur, with Rourke also taking on the role of music supervisor.

Filmed primarily in Brooklyn, New York City during 1994, the movie's release faced a delay exceeding two years. It ultimately premiered in a limited capacity in October 1996, shortly following Shakur’s passing, and was distributed internationally through direct-to-video channels.

Plot

Butch "Bullet" Stein is a 35-year-old Jewish-American former convict and drug addict who is released on parole after serving eight years for his involvement in a robbery orchestrated by his friend Paddy, an Irish-American gangster. Bullet teams up with his companion Lester to rob teenagers for narcotics and assaults a drug dealer named Flaco, inadvertently alerting Flaco’s superior, the local crime lord Tank, to his return. Residing in Brooklyn, Bullet contends with a troubled household including his alcoholic father, a mother battling depression, a mentally unstable Vietnam veteran brother named Louis, and Ruby, his younger sibling who pursues graffiti art.

Following prior altercations where Bullet stabbed him in the eye, Tank seeks vengeance. He coerces Paddy into handing over Bullet and attempts to assassinate him by contaminating drugs distributed through Paddy’s network; however, this plan fails when the drug stash is robbed. In retaliation, Bullet steals jewelry from neighbors to sell to Italian-American mobster "Frankie Eyelashes." He encourages Ruby’s artistic goals and discusses the possibility that Lester may be secretly homosexual.

Tank intensifies hostilities by dispatching henchmen to attack Bullet, but Bullet withstands these assaults as witnessed by Louis. Paddy discovers Tank’s schemes against his crew, leading to violent clashes that result in Tank losing two of his men. Before attending a nightclub with Ruby and Lester, Bullet makes peace with his mother. Paddy attempts to assist Bullet in fleeing before Tank arrives. During the climactic encounter, Tank kills Bullet. Subsequently, Louis avenges his brother’s death by killing Tank and symbolically allows Bullet’s pet rat to drink from Tank’s blood.

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