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Delivery Boys

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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
  • 1985 (1985)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Delivery Boys is a 1985 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]

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

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  1. 1 2 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 (July 21, 2023). "Ken's Last Movie". Roadmap. Allma.io. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
  4. "Movie Role Raises Eyebrows". Press and Sun-Bulletin. Binghamton, New York. 30 September 2005. p. (view source for some article content). Retrieved 14 May 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
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