![]() Our hero Ray Carney has that balancing act down to a pretty fine art, or would do, if it weren’t for his cousin Freddie. Both also feature busy picaresque plots a colourful cast of characters swirling around one man going to extraordinary lengths not only to maintain a double life but to keep the two parts of it – “the straight and the crooked” – separate. But like the film, Harlem Shuffle has more than its fair share of precious stones and dollar-stuffed envelopes passing hands and, as its name promises, more than a touch of that film’s hectic energy a sense for the traffic and jostling between different people and groups – ethnic, economic – that feels quintessentially New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() It also unfolds in a meticulously recreated 1960s era Harlem rather than the early 2010s. ![]()
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