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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Graphic Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content Movie Release: 2001 DVD Release: 12/23/2003 Format: DVD - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 0 mins Studio: Live/Artisan Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Crime, Period Film, Crime Drama

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Director at the 2001 Urbanworld Film Festival, Blue Hill Avenue focuses on the rise of the drug trade in Boston, as seen through the eyes of three childhood friends. The time is the late '70s, and Tristan (Allen Payne), Money (Aaron D. Spears), E-Bone (William Johnson), and Simon (Michael Taliferro) are all high-school pals and petty thieves on the mean streets of the city's South Side. Their antics bring them to the attention of Benny (Clarence Williams III), a charismatic drug dealer who takes the four friends under his wing. The most straight-and-narrow of the bunch, Tristan manages to keep his nefarious trade under the radar of his parents. As the years pass, however, the dealers introduce crack to their line of narcotics, and Tristan's sense of guilt over his neighborhood's demise leads to an inevitable betrayal of Benny, followed by a grisly showdown. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

Allen Payne - Tristan
William Forsythe - Brian Torrance
Aaron D. Spears - Money
William L. Johnson - E-Bone
Michael "Bear" Taliferro - Simon
Clarence Williams III - Benny