Rollin: The Fall of the Auto Industry and the Rise of the Drug Economy in Detroit
Detroit, the very symbol of the American Dream, withers as its legendary auto industry collapses. Archival footage reveals cavernous, abandoned factory floors and shuttered plants, leaving a workforce stranded and desperate. In the vacuum of this economic disaster, a shadow economy takes root—the drug trade offers a seductive, lethal alternative. The documentary traces this tragic metamorphosis through the lives of former autoworkers, police officers, and those pulled into the underworld, painting a portrait of a city forced to choose between survival and the law.
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📋 Film Details
| Genre | Documentary, Crime |
| Runtime | 83 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 8.0/10 (1 votes) |
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🎬 MovieFinder's Take
This documentary functions as a precise social scalpel, exposing not just an economic decline but a fundamental rupture in the social contract. It avoids easy moralizing, instead revealing the logic of desperation that turns streets into marketplaces.
What lingers after the credits roll is a profound understanding of a systemic failure, where the collapse of one world inevitably seeds the growth of a darker one. It’s a sobering study of cause and effect on a civic scale. — MovieFinder Editorial
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A gray industrial landscape saturated with a sense of irreversible loss and smoldering tension.
🎭 Cast
Luke Bergmann
Self - Director of Research, Department of Health and Wellness Promotion, City of Detroit
Scott M. Burnstein
Self - Author
Nathaniel Craft
Self - Convicted contract killer
Dr. Carl S. Taylor
Self - Professor, Michigan State University
John P. Sutton
Self - Retired DEA agent
Coleman Young
Self - Former mayor of Detroit, Michigan(archive footage) (uncredited)
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