''Dough Boys'' is a 2009

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written and produced by Preston A. Whitmore II and directed by Nicholas Harvell.

Plot

1100 Jefferson Street is not just any address; it’s everything for 4 friends bonded by both their circumstances and their struggle to make something, anything out of their seemingly predetermined fate. The crew played by Arlen Escarpeta,

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, Maurice McRae and Lorenzo Eduardo share one simple job description -- “Dough Boys”. Corey, the all-around good guy with great potential (Escarpeta); Smooth, the ladies man, big dreamer and quintessential leader (Hardrict); Black, the eager-to-please skinny weed head (McRae) and Long Cuz, the skittishly annoying square trying to keep up with everyone else (Eduardo) form the group who make up their rules and moves as they go along. Drama can always be found among 1100 Jefferson Street’s day-to-day dealings down to the resident crack head that serves as both lookout and snitch and the good-hearted Beauty ( Reagan Gomez-Preston) running a full-service hair salon out of her one-bedroom apartment. Meanwhile, Corey plays a balancing act with the streets and his future as he weighs the arguments of his girlfriend in one ear and mentor, Simuel – played by Gabriel Casseus – in the other to go back to school. But constantly calling Corey’s attention are the “Dough Boys,” who dream big enough to spend their money before they get it and smoke their joints before they roll ‘em. Although they shy clear of the drug game, the boys still do their streetwise duty in protecting the resident drug dealer in the building, played by Kirk Jones a.k.a. Sticky Fingaz. This is a loyal bond that pays off well. But their current “hustle” of choice is flipping counterfeit casino chips in a limited market. The young men have obviously bit off more than they can chew and when their buyer Julian France, played by

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walks in it gets really interesting. Thus, the “Dough Boys” fight to stay alive as the rules of the street that they live by consequentially are the very rules that begin to pull them under.

Cast

* Amanda Aardsma as Palova *

as Julian * Arlen Escarpeta as Corey * Kirk Jones ( Sticky Fingaz) as Deuce * Reagan Gomez-Preston as Beauty *

as Smooth * Maurice McRae as Black * Lorenzo Eduardo as Long Cuz * Page Kennedy as Aub * Ricky Harris as Faze Disco *

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as Detective Nichols * Cooper Harris as Detective Rice *

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as Simuel * Kel Mitchell as Reggie * Leonard A. Anderson as Officer White *

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as Selecia *

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as Zena

Production

The film was produced and written by Preston A. Whitmore II. It is the first full-length feature film from director Nicholas Harvell and the inaugural feature from Whitmore’s “Give Back” program, where he funds independent films to give up and coming directors, actors and other filmmakers a shot at utilizing their skills. Bonnie Berry LaMon serves as executive producer.

Reception

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gave it a negative review, saying: "''Dough Boys'' is a testosterone-fueled saga ostensibly designed to match the taste of fans of those musical glorification of misogyny, materialism and black-on-black crime popularized by the network."

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