Slam

Grand Jury Prize, 1998 Sundance Film Festival. A talented youth (Saul Williams) copes with urban crime and despair by competing in poetry slams. Sonja Sohn of "The Wire" costars.

Slam is a 1998 drama movie directed by Marc Levin, starring Lawrence Wilson, Sonja Sohn, Bonz Malone. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.1/10 from 2,579 votes and runs 1h 40m.