Pawn Shop

SNL alum Garrett Morris stars as Rey, the crotchety owner of a prosperous pawn shop who is unsure he can trust his oldest son, Mike (Robert ‘Foolish” Spearman), who dreams of getting out of the pawn business and opening his own custom rim shop. To get the money he needs, Mike tries a variety of quick money schemes, including trying to sell a stolen chain for a local bad guy named Pierre (Joe Torry). The plot is pretty basic and the jokes are pretty simple, but there’s some real chemistry between the cast, especially between Morris and Spearman playing father and son. When writer/director Parrish Redd stays focused on them, the movie runs like clockwork and is a lot of fun to watch. When he veers off course to try and milk jokes out of some of the weaker material, like the two bumbling/annoying local cops, it stops dead in its tracks.