Street Fight
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Marshall Curry
Cory Booker
Sharpe James
James Baxter
Marshall Curry
Marshall Curry
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Chronicles the bare-knuckles race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law School grad, and Sharpe James, the four-term incumbent and undisputed champion of New Jersey politics. Fought in Newark's neighborhoods and housing projects, the battle pits Booker against an old-style political machine that uses any means necessary to crush its opponents: city workers who do not support the mayor are demoted; "disloyal" businesses are targeted by code enforcement; a campaigner is detained and accused of terrorism; and disks of voter data are burglarized in the night. Even the filmmaker is dragged into the slugfest, and by election day, the climate becomes so heated that the Federal government is forced to send in observers to watch for cheating and violence. Both Booker and James are African-American Democrats, but when the mayor accuses the Ivy League educated Booker of not being "really black," it forces voters to examine both how we define race in this country.
Director
Marshall Curry
Crew
James Baxter
Marshall Curry
Marshall Curry
Marshall Curry
Marshall Curry
Sally Jo Fifer
Liz Garbus
Matt Harnichek
Catherine Jones
Marisa Karplus
Rory Kennedy
Rachel Kittner
Mary Manhardt
Cara Mertes
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Documentary Feature
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Audience Award at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival.
Released in United States 2005
Released in United States February 24, 2006
Released in United States June 2005
Released in United States on Video January 9, 2007
Released in United States Winter February 22, 2006
Shown at SILVERDOCS:AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival June 14-18, 2005
Shown at Tribeca Film Festival April 19-May 1, 2005.
Feature directorial debut for Marshall Curry.
Released in United States 2005 (Shown at Tribeca Film Festival April 19-May 1, 2005.)
Released in United States on Video January 9, 2007
Released in United States Winter February 22, 2006
Released in United States February 24, 2006 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States June 2005 (Shown at SILVERDOCS:AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival June 14-18, 2005)
