#LIFE 1999 BISCUIT FREE#

Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave it a grade B+. The site's critic consensus reads, 'Entertaining if not over-the-top humor from a solid comic duo provides plenty of laughs.' On Metacritic it has a score of 63 out of 100, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 50% based on reviews from 54 critics. The film grossed $73,345,029 worldwide against an $80 million budget, making it a financial disappointment. O'Neal Compton as Superintendent Abernathy.Clarence Williams III as Winston Hancock.

#LIFE 1999 BISCUIT FREE#

The two are again on good terms, free and living together in Harlem. Willie reveals to the workers and inmates that the plan worked: the bodies they buried are not Ray and Claude, who have escaped back to New York and are watching a baseball game. Willie concludes the tale by outlining Claude's plan: Ray and Claude would steal two bodies from the morgue, start the blaze, plant the bodies, hide in the fire trucks and depart with them in the morning. That night, the infirmary catches fire, and they seemingly perish in the flames. Claude tells Ray of another plan, but Ray has accepted his fate. In 1997, Ray and Claude live in the prison infirmary. Wilkins suffers a fatal heart attack before he can pardon them. Realizing that Ray and Claude are innocent, Wilkins kills Pike and covers it up as a hunting accident. As Claude struggles to stop Ray from killing Pike, Pike attempts to kill them both. He tells Wilkins that Pike framed him and Claude for murder, which the sheriff admits to. While on a pheasant hunt, Ray notices that Pike has his father's watch and confronts him. Claude is entrusted to pick up the new superintendent, Sheriff Warren Pike. Ray does yard work, while Claude works inside the house and befriends Wilkins. One day, Dillard transfers Ray and Claude to live and work at Superintendent Dexter Wilkins' mansion. Touched, Claude makes amends, and the two repair their friendship. Ray refuses and is given the same punishment. Dillard offers to set Ray free if he will shoot Claude should he move. One day, Claude snaps and runs past armed guards to steal a pie he is punished by having to stand barefoot on a case of bottles for 24 hours. Everyone but Willie has either died or been released. When Can't-Get-Right is released without them, Ray and Claude have a falling out, and Ray attempts a number of escapes on his own.īy 1972, Ray and Claude are still not on speaking terms. Biscuit commits suicide by cop after Bob hesitates to shoot him. During a dance social, Biscuit confides to Ray that he is due for release but is too ashamed to return to his family because of his homosexuality. Various inmates simultaneously claim to be the father to confuse Abernathy and save Can't-Get-Right. After Mae-Rose gives birth to a biracial boy, Abernathy demands to know the father's identity. Despite his talent, Can't-Get-Right is often distracted by his attraction to Mae-Rose, the daughter of the Camp 8's superintendent Abernathy. Sensing opportunity, Ray and Claude introduce themselves as his handlers. In 1944, Claude and Ray meet a young mute inmate nicknamed 'Can't-Get-Right', a talented baseball player who catches the eye of a Negro league scout who suggests a pardon if he agrees to play professionally. With no chance at freedom, Claude and Ray break out, getting as far as Tallahatchie before being captured. Claude's cousin, an attorney, unsuccessfully appeals his conviction and seduces his girlfriend. Ray and Claude immediately run afoul of the guards, Sergeant Dillard and Hoppin' Bob, and meet fellow inmates Jangle Leg, who makes a pass at Claude Willie Long Biscuit, a homosexual inmate Radio Goldmouth, a bully who picks a fight with Ray Cookie, the chef and Pokerface. Ray and Claude are sent to perform hard labor at an infamous prison camp. Outside, the town's sheriff, Warren Pike, kills Hancock and frames Ray and Claude. They pay for the booze and enter a local bar, where Ray loses his father's prized pocketwatch to hustler Winston Hancock in a fixed game of cards. Claude and Ray travel south to buy Mississippi 'hooch'. Ray convinces Spanky to allow himself and Claude to pay off their debt via boot-legging.

They annoy the club's owner, who threatens Claude.

Ray, a small-time thief, picks Claude as a mark. Ray Gibson and Claude Banks, New Yorkers from different worlds, meet at a club called Spanky's in 1932. In 1997 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, elderly convict Willie Long recounts his friends' life story during their burial.

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