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The Monkey Hustle

The Monkey Hustle

Live the scam. Work the sham.
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Overview:

Slick Chicago street hustler Big Daddy Foxx lives comfortably off petty confidence scams that he pulls with the help of loyal teenage acolytes Baby 'D, Tiny and Player. His business is jeopardized, however, when he runs afoul of neighborhood racketeer Goldie. Their rivalry escalates until the threat of a freeway being built through their neighborhood obliges them to cooperate in order to fight city hall.
Released: 1976-12-24
Duration: 01:30:00
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
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The film includes a loose plot centered on the ensemble cast of characters in which Foxx mentors "Baby D" (Calloway), "Player" (Carter), and "Tiny" (Harper) in the ways of small-time hustling. An example of a hustle is the boys apparently stealing some televisions from a truck for Foxx in sight of a local shop owner. The boys then steal the televisions from Foxx's truck and stash them in some trash. The shop owner offers the boys $55 cash for the televisions which they accept.

However, when the shop owner returns with his dolly, he finds that the boys have run off with the cash as well as the televisions (which were actually empty boxes). The overarching plotline is to prevent the construction of an expressway through the neighborhood in which all the characters reside. Using facilities that are not adequately described in the film, Foxx and local numbers man "Glitterin' Goldie" (Moore) use potentially corrupt connections within the city government to prevent the construction. 

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