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Anthony Boswell, Anthony Johnson, Frantz Turner

Hip-hop czar Master P cowrote, executive produced, and stars in I Got the Hook-Up, which is truly one of the more surreal urban comedies ever seen. P plays Black, a small-time hustler who scams...( read more  read more... ) a shipment of cell phones. With his partner Blue (A.J. Johnson) and semi-girlfriend Lorraine (Gretchen Palmer), Black snags a bit of cellular service from a large corporation and starts making a bundle from cell-phone sales. Unfortunately, the phones are a bit undependable, and a gangbanger accidentally broadcasts the location of a package of cash over the radio, setting off a treasure hunt. The gangbanger swears vengeance on Black and Blue, the cellular company starts investigating the surge in use, the FBI gets involved--everyone's on the hunt for our heroes. This plot description, however, is much more direct than the way it plays out. I Got the Hook-Up is a bizarre conglomeration of oddball characters and odd, off-the-cuff incidents, such as when a couple of cops get called in for a domestic dispute, only to discover one of the cop's wives, a dwarf, having an affair with a guy in a leather bat suit. Or there's the funeral of a gangster that turns into a brawl; the pleasure palace a TV repairman has in the back of his shop; an FBI interrogation in which the agents tear off Mission: Impossible-style rubber masks--the plot quickly gets lost in the madness. Which is not a bad thing, really. Tall, laconic P and short, excitable Johnson make an appealing Mutt and Jeff comic duo. Featuring cameos by Ice Cube, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and others. --Bret Fetzer

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R, 93 min.

Directed by: Michael Martin

Release Date: December 31, 1998

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DVD Release Date: February 13, 2001

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  • ileo
    January 3, 2008
    ileo
    Crazy funny!
  • boxofficeman
    August 7, 2009
    boxofficeman
    A.J.Johnson is stupid funny in this one.
  • wallflowersperk
    June 26, 2009
    wallflowersperk
    All I can think of is that song, "I got the hook up. Holla if ya hear me!"
  • paparazzichick2001
    July 13, 2008
    paparazzichick2001
    Silly movie that I used to like more when I was younger.
  • theohiostateguy
    May 15, 2008
    theohiostateguy
    I'm not even interested in seeing this movie.
  • ldt1740
    November 7, 2007
    ldt1740
    this is funny as hell... i luv it !!!!
  • CloudIsAMonkey
    September 24, 2007
    CloudIsAMonkey
    "urban comedies"

    Yeah that's enough reason right there. >_>"
  • ceeaaquil
    September 4, 2007
    ceeaaquil
    one of the corny ones...better than anyone gives him credit for though
  • honeymorunga
    September 3, 2007
    honeymorunga
    bitch be gone bitch be gone

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  • IRONMANBLAST
    October 4, 2007
    IRONMANBLAST
    Aj Johnsons No Rapper
    This Movie was Really Well Done
    Master P outside of No Limit
    Doing a Really Good Movie
    This is a Well Kept Secret
    Funnier than anything going today that I have seen.
    I have been desperately trying to find it on DVD as I only have it on VHS
    "Quotable Quotable Quotable"
    Ill Kid!
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