The 99th Problem — Day 31

Genre: Drama / Action

Logline 1: American Gangster meets Funny Games

Premise: A hip-hop mogul is targeted by an inner-city gang. The gang breaks into the mogul/rapper's home armed to the teeth and hold him and his Victoria Secret model wife hostage. The mogul, who is well know for rapping about the Good Life that his millions afford him, at first believes that he is being targeted for his wealth, and that he is the victim of a simple robbery / extortion. But through the course of the hostage situation and film, it becomes clear that the gang leader has a deeper motivation and plan.

Before he made it big, the mogul had been a very successful gang-banging, drug dealer in his youth. It turns out that the gang currently holding him and his wife hostage is from the same projects where the mogul grew up. The gang leader's mother was a junkie, who overdosed when he was just a child. The gang leader blames the mogul for his mother's death, and intends to make the mogul answer for his long forgotten—or worse, long celebrated—sins.