Charm City Kings (2020)
Life happens at the crossroads.
Director: Ángel Manuel Soto · Writers: Sherman Payne, Barry Jenkins, Chris Boyd, Kirk Sullivan
Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
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Director
Ángel Manuel Soto
Cast
Jahi Di'Allo Winston
Mouse 
Meek Mill
Blax 
Teyonah Parris
Mouse’s Mom 
William Catlett
Detective Rivers 
Kezii Curtis
Sweartagawd 
Donielle T. Hansley Jr.
Lamont 
Milan Ray
Shay 
Chandler DuPont
Nicki 
Hero Hunter
Young Mouse 
Robert Dobson
Street Crowd (uncredited)
Pacino Braxton
Jamal
Lakeyria Doughty
Queen User Reviews (1)
Charm City Kings evokes such films as Boyz n’ the Hood, A Bronx Tale, and Torque. I know; one of those things isn’t like the others. The filmmakers, however, put the motorcycle fetish to good use, infusing it with imagery that’s almost religious in order to reveal its real-world impracticality. Mouse (Jahi Di'Allo Winston) is a bright 14-year-old boy with a natural affinity for and encyclopedic knowledge of animals that make him a natural-born veterinarian — if he lives long enough to become one. His late older brother Stro (Tyquan Ford), whom Mouse idolized, has become the patron saint of Mouse's adoration of bikes; whenever he speaks about them, Mouse is overwhelmed with a kind of ecstatic, frantic fervor. Meanwhile, gangbanger Blax (Meek Mill) and detective Rivers (Will Catlett) butt heads over Mouse’s future. It’s worth noting that this conflict is not distilled …
