Clockers is a 1995 film directed by Spike Lee, based on the novel by Richard Price. The film stars Mekhi Phifer in his first role.

Setting: The Movie was Filmed In Gowanus Projects in Brooklyn, New York Rodney, a drug boss (Delroy Lindo), tells Strike, a clocker— low-level drug dealer (Mekhi Phifer) that Darryl Adams (Steve White), is stealing from him. Rodney tells Strike that Darryl "got to be got", not really being clear if he wants Strike to kill him. Strike then meets his brother, Victor Dunham (Isaiah Washington).

Soon after, Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel) and Larry Mazilli (John Turturro), homicide detectives, ride to the scene of a murder. The aftermath of Darryl's mortal wounds are shown: he was shot in his teeth, the back of his head, and two more places. The white detectives are then seen making racial remarks about him, saying that Darryl is "one less nubian to worry about.”

Larry and Rocco pick up Victor at church to question him for the murder. In the interrogation room, Victor tells Rocco that he was the one that shot Darryl over self-defense. Rocco doesn't believe it because, unlike his brother Strike, Victor does not have a criminal record.

Complications with the murder case ensue as Rocco tries to piece together what had really happened by going to the projects. For Strike, he ponders about leaving the gang life but does not know how to escape from Rodney's clutches.

Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug-lord Rodney Little, who, when not playing with model trains or drinking Moo for his ulcer, just likes to chill with his brothers near the benches outside the project houses. When a night man at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn't buy the story, however, and sets out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney. Written by Michael Silva