Fresh 1994: The Most Acclaimed Hood Film Nobody Remembers
Fresh (1994) is a crime drama about a 12-year-old Brooklyn drug runner nicknamed Fresh (Sean Nelson) who uses chess lessons from his father (Samuel L. Jackson) to plot his way out of the drug trade. Directed by Boaz Yakin on a $3.5 million budget, it won the Sundance Film Festival’s Filmmaker’s Trophy in 1994, earned…