Delivery Boys

Delivery Boys
Delivery Boys promotional poster
Directed byKen Handler
Written byKen Handler
Produced by
  • Craig Horrall
  • Per Sjostedt
CinematographyLarry Revene
Music byKen Handler
Production
companies
  • Platinum Pictures
  • Pegasus Productions
Distributed byNew World Pictures
Release date
  • 1984 (1984)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Delivery Boys is a 1984 film directed by Ken Handler[1] about a multiethnic group of pizza delivery boys who start a breakdancing team.[2]

Delivery Boys was a self-funded vanity project in which Handler paid Chuck Vincent's Platinum Pictures to produce the film.[3] It was direct-to-video and received no theatrical release.

Mario Van Peebles,[1] Scott Thompson Baker, Kelly Nichols, Samantha Fox, Veronica Hart and Annabelle Gurwitch have cameo roles. Naima Kradjian, a former Republican candidate for mayor of Binghamton, New York, also appears in the film.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Donalson, Melvin (2007). Hip Hop in American cinema. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. ISBN 9780820463452.
  2. ^ Monteyne, Kimberly (2013). Hip hop on film : performance culture, urban space, and genre transformation in the 1980s. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781617039225.
  3. ^ Shine, Jacqui (2023-07-21). "Ken's Last Movie". Roadmap. Allma.io. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
  4. ^ "Movie Role Raises Eyebrows". Press and Sun-Bulletin. Binghamton, New York. 30 September 2005. p. (view source for some article content). Archived from the original on 14 May 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2019.


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