It is Carlton who tempts the Kid off the wagon on a night out, and who calls in “a friend” to help dispose of the dead body with which the Kid is confronted the morning after. It’s a barnstorming, scene-stealing performance from the get-go and Hart – in, remember, his first dramatic role – does phenomenally well as both the actor and the brother who has to avoid being annihilated by the mere force of Carlton’s presence. He is played with matchless intensity by Wesley Snipes, who gives him a simmering rage at the Kid’s success that looks a lot like sheer malevolence. Waiting for the Kid in his hotel room is his beloved but burdensome older brother, Carlton. So it comes as a surprise that things develop quite so rapidly into a wholly implausible crime caper.
#Wesley snipes recent movies series#
The setup – and the marketing and publicity – have been clearly aimed at encouraging the viewer to think of Hart and the Kid as one and the same (in real life, Hart is a frequent guest on DeGeneres’s show, and was born and raised in Philadelphia) and of the series as autobiography-with-plausible-deniability. The Kid is finishing up his 20th appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and he and his entourage are dealing with intrusive fans in Pennsylvania as they settle into the Four Seasons ($5,000 a night, “but I haven’t paid for a room in years”) in advance of concerts he will give in the city.
We flash back to one week earlier, where the hour-long episode (the rest are around half that length) properly begins.
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