The Stick Up Kids

The Stick Up Kids is a 2008 film directed by Hawthorne James and starring Bryce Wilson, Mel Jackson, Tariq Alexander, and Hawthorne James. Premise Four friends from Harlem resort to con games and armed robbery in order to make ends meet, but they find their friendship put to the test when an influential slumlord plots to gentrify their neighborhood. Now, in order to prove that they can't be bought out or pushed around by a man who thinks everyone has their price, these four young hustlers are about to carry out their most ambitious and treacherous scam to date. Cast Bryce Wilson as Hands and a little man Mel Jackson as Pennell Tariq Alexander as Santos Hawthorne James as Uncle Bo Tara Magalski as Lisa References