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Not to be confused with Chirac.

For the nickname of Chicago, see Chi-raq.

2015 American film

Chi-Raq () is a 2015 American musicalcrimecomedy drama film, directed and produced by Spike Lee and co-written by Lee and Kevin Willmott.

Set in Chicago, the film focuses on the gang violence prevalent in neighborhoods on the city's south side, particularly the Englewood neighborhood.^[5]

The story is based on Aristophanes' Lysistrata, a classical Greek comedy play in which women withhold sex from their husbands to put an end to the Peloponnesian War.^[6] It stars Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes, Teyonah Parris, Jennifer Hudson, Angela Bassett, John Cusack, and Samuel L.

Jackson.

It was the first film to be produced by Amazon Studios, released in select theaters on December 4, 2015, and on their video on demand service Amazon Instant Video on December 29.^[7]

Plot

In Chicago's Southside, as the events are narrated by Dolemedes, a war rages bet