Get Rich or Die Tryin' R

If You Think You Know the Story...You Don't Know the Man.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 24, 2017
  • Originally Released: 2005
  • Label: Paramount

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 298,085
Rating: 2/4 -- You feel this film straining to be another 8 Mile, even as it never gets into the head of its central character Full Review
Shadows on the Wall
Jan 19, 2006
Rating: 2/5 -- Embora limitado como ator, 50 Cent tem carisma para segurar o filme, que acaba falhando não em função do rapper, mas de seu roteiro convencional que soa como pálida imitação de 8 Mile.
Cinema em Cena
May 18, 2006
Tupac, you can sleep easy. Richard Pryor, watch out. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 16, 2018
Sheridan's surface vividness is applied around a vacuum Full Review
CinePassion
Sep 1, 2009
Rating: 2/5 -- 50 Cent has some good moments, but other times he seems like little more than a blank slate.
Arizona Republic
Nov 10, 2005
The outstanding cinematographer is Declan Quinn, who creates a gorgeously crumbly 1970s Bronx in colors of dirt and blood.
Entertainment Weekly
Nov 18, 2005
Rating: 1/4 -- Marcus sells dope. Marcus buys a gun. Marcus buys a microphone. Marcus goes to prison. Marcus gets shot. Marcus makes a movie about his life that no one goes to see. Full Review
Film Freak Central
Jun 15, 2006

Product Description:

With GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN', rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson follows in the footsteps of his musical counterpart, Eminem (8 MILE), by giving movie stardom a shot. Directed by Jim Sheridan (IN AMERICA, MY LEFT FOOT) and written by Terence Winter, the film tells a fictionalized version of 50 Cent's own troubled life story. Marcus is a quiet young man who adores his loving mother (Serena Reeder). But after she is brutally murdered in an apparent drug deal gone wrong, Marcus heads down the wrong road himself. He abandons high school to sell drugs for local kingpin Levar (Bill Duke) and his underling, Majestic (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). Years later, when he reunites with his childhood sweetheart (Joy Bryant) and is thrown in jail, Marcus decides to leave drug selling behind in order to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a rapper. Unfortunately, Majestic doesn't want to let him go, resulting in a tragedy that might destroy his life forever.
   
Much like Curtis Hanson with 8 MILE, Sheridan seems an unlikely choice to direct an urban drama about the blossoming of a gangsta rapper. But that is exactly what makes his film so refreshing. Photographed with a gritty tenderness by Declan Quinn and featuring another scene-stealing turn from Terrence Howard, GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' is equal parts social commentary, crime thriller, and heartfelt drama.

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  • UPC: 032429257000
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