Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005) on Netflix
In 1960s New York, Carlito Brigante, Earl and Rocco run a crime empire from their cell. Released, they want the Harlem heroin trade, split between the Bottolotas and Hollywood Nicky's gangsters.
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Plot summary
In a New York prison in the 1960s, Carlito Brigante, Earl and Rocco run a criminal operation from inside their cell. Once released, the three friends look to control the heroin trade in Harlem, which the Italian Bottolota family and the gangsters under Hollywood Nicky both want. Rocco takes Carlito and Earl to Artie Bottolota Sr., who at first wants nothing to do with blacks and Puerto Ricans, then agrees to a heroin distribution deal with them. Earl's troubled younger brother Reggie joins the crew and soon causes trouble that endangers Carlito's deal with the Bottolotas.
Cast
- Casper Martinezas Colorado
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Mario Van Peebles's character Earl refers in the film to Governor Rockefeller putting new drug laws into effect, a nod to the Rockefeller drug laws and their tough mandatory sentences for drug dealers.
