Victor Rosa runs a successful "street pharmaceutical" business that peddles a high-in-demand heroin mix, which he has named "Empire". His beautiful fiancee, Carmen, a Baruch College student, befriends a classmate who has an investment-banker boyfriend named Jack Wimmer. Victor meets Jack, and they instantly connect. Both are hard-core businessmen from two different sides of the legal fence. When Jack offers Victor a piece of the action on the stock market, Victor finally sees that this could be his ticket out of the violent streets of the South Bronx--and so, he jumps at the opportunity. But there is a bigger price to be paid than clean money for his gorgeous new Soho lifestyle. For the first time, Victor is confronted with a price tag that he will find very difficult to pay.
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- Empire
- (for strong violence, pervasive language, drug content and some sexuality)
- Cast
- John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard, Denise Richards, Vincent Laresca, Isabella Rossellini, Sonia Braga, Delilah Cotto, Nestor Serrano, Rafael Baez
- Director
- Franc Reyes
- Producer
- Robert Campbell, Steven Beer, Evan Lamberg, Daniel Bigel, Michael Mailer
- Writer
- Franc Reyes
- Duration
- 01:30:00
- Release
- Friday December 6 2002
- Genre
- Drama
- Distributor
- Universal Pictures
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