Year			2002
Genre			Drama, crime
Rating			18A
Parents			Violence, offensive language
Length			1:30
Director			Franc Reyes
Writer			Franc Reyes
Company			Universal Pictures
Starring			John Leguizamo Denise Richards Peter Sarsgaard Sonia Braga Isabella Rossellini Fat Joe Show more... John Leguizamo Denise Richards Peter Sarsgaard Sonia Braga Isabella Rossellini Fat Joe Derrick Simmons Nestor Serrano Granville Adams Félix Solis Sam Coppola Vincent Laresca Rob B. Campbell

Victor Rosa (John Leguizamo) is all about the mighty dollar and fashions himself as a businessman on par with Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Bill Gates. With an iron fist, he runs a successful "street pharmaceutical" business that peddles a heroin mix he has named Empire. His beautiful fiancée, Carmen, a Baruch College student, befriends a classmate with an investment-banker boyfriend, 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, he sees his ticket out of the violent streets of the South Bronx and 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 difficult to pay.