# Fresh (1994) **Summary**: Set in the early 1990s. The film follows a young African American boy, Fresh, who navigates the dangerous world of drug dealing in order to make ends meet for his struggling family. Inspired by the chess lessons of his father, an alcoholic speed-chess master (Samuel L. Jackson), Fresh devises and executes a brilliant plan to extricate himself and his drug-addicted sister (N'Bushe Wright) from their hopeless lives.