across 110th street be definitely a product of it time . although it lump in with the blaxplotation movie of it day and it really doesn not belong with those film . while film like foxy brown and cleopatra jones and and superfly feature large than life character that border on be comic book character and across 110th street seek to give a more accurate portrait of what be happen in the inner city in the early 1970s . sure and the event have be fictionalize and but the gritty truth be just under the surface . these aren not pretty picture with pretty hollywood actor . these be people with little hope for the future . theyre almost force to take chance with their life and life of their loved one to make a good future for themselves . it ugly and totally fascinate at the same time . across 110th street be movie not to be miss .