Table for Six
This film, The Jose Lucas Story, is based on a fictionalized account of a particular string of criminal exploits, leading to the arrest, conviction, incarceration, and too sudden death of one, Jose Lu…
Table for Six
This film, The Jose Lucas Story, is based on a fictionalized account of a particular string of criminal exploits, leading to the arrest, conviction, incarceration, and too sudden death of one, Jose Lucas, a local Brooklyn kid whose early life reads like a Dicken's novel, and ends like a classic Shakespearean tradgedy. He's convicted and given a heavy prison sentence for having been a perpetrator in a notorious day-time jewelry heist in toney, downtown Georgetown, Washington, DC.(2005) Lucas had managed to be caught on a security camera with his homeboy Lex by design of the other two culprits, Robert and 'E, who when arrested later, in another robbery, make a deal with the DA to escape the heavy sentences given Jose and Lex by giving them up. The film attempts to get at the story behind that conviction, which many believed resulted in a grossly unfair sentence. After having accepted that Jose has lost in court, they had hoped to fight the verdict; Jose's defense did file and lose several appeals. They had settled into the reality that most residents-of- color in Brooklyn find themselves: that of having a loved one incarcerated.
Table for Six
Drama,Mystery,Romance
Film Details
This film, The Jose Lucas Story, is based on a fictionalized account of a particular string of criminal exploits, leading to the arrest, conviction, incarceration, and too sudden death of one, Jose Lucas, a local Brooklyn kid whose early life reads like a Dicken's novel, and ends like a classic Shakespearean tradgedy. He's convicted and given a heavy prison sentence for having been a perpetrator in a notorious day-time jewelry heist in toney, downtown Georgetown, Washington, DC.(2005) Lucas had managed to be caught on a security camera with his homeboy Lex by design of the other two culprits, Robert and 'E, who when arrested later, in another robbery, make a deal with the DA to escape the heavy sentences given Jose and Lex by giving them up. The film attempts to get at the story behind that conviction, which many believed resulted in a grossly unfair sentence.
After having accepted that Jose has lost in court, they had hoped to fight the verdict; Jose's defense did file and lose several appeals. They had settled into the reality that most residents-of- color in Brooklyn find themselves: that of having a loved one incarcerated..