Four boyhood friends from the New Orleans' Ninth Ward return home following the destructive Hurricane Katrina. With no help from FEMA, no jobs, and nothing to lose, they reluctantly seek help from a local gangster who convinces them to pull off a dangerous heist in a bid to turn their situations around. When the job goes wrong, they find themselves mixed up in a political minefield, being chased by local detectives, the district's Counsellor and an extremely angry warlord. Directed by RZA and starring, Shameik Moore, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Denzel Whitaker, Keean Johnson, Ethan Hawke, Eiza González, Kat Graham, Isaiah Washington, T.I., Terrence Howard, and Wesley Snipes, Cut Throat City is a charged thriller-heist film where everything is on the line.
