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In Jamal Hill's tough-as-nails urban drama Money, Power, Respect, Levi (Kyle Shell), an up-and-coming African-American hustler and gangsta, is torn in half between his mother and girlfriend -- who plead with him to go straight -- and his criminal influences, Juan and Drew, hardening him in the ways of the street. Gradually, Levi finds himself being inexorably pulled in the direction of crime, narcotics, and bloodshed, despite his increasingly half-hearted attempts to claw his way out of the gutter. Lionell Dalton and Roni Graham co-star.