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Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Summary: A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from a life of crime to pursue his passion of rap music.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: 18A
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 30,985,352
International: $ 15,578,609
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1980sbased on true storybloodcrack cocainecrime bossdeathdeath of motherdrive by shootingdrug dealerdrug lorddrugsgangsterghettohip hophoodindependent filmmale frontal nuditymale full frontal nuditymale pubic hairmurdernew york cityorganized crimepovertyprisonpubic hairrags to richesraprap concertrap musicrapperrobberysemi autobiographicalshot in the backshot in the chestshot in the faceshot in the handshot in the legstabbed to deathtimeframe 1980stortureurban settingviolence
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| MPAA Certification | No MPAA rating found yet. Add Family Friendly Rating? |
IMDb Ratinghttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430308/parentalguidelast updated: 2024-10-25Update data | |
Commonsensemedia Ratinghttps://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/get-rich-or-die-tryinlast updated: 2024-10-25Update data | |
| Message | Again, the hero is a drug dealer, though he learns to "express himself" in music rather than violence. |
| Violence | Shooting opens the film (brutal assault on hero, who then tells his story in flashback); multiple shootings, stabbings, fist fights, and one death by machete. |
| Sex | Sexual language and slang for genitals; two sex scenes (one implied, the second shot in softlit body-part close-ups); naked male prisoners fight in a shower (long shot on this scene holds for a couple of minutes, to show bodies in desperate struggle). |
| Language | Frequent cursing (including f-word) and use of n-word, in dialogue and lyrics. |
| Consumerism | Young characters yearn for new sneakers; discussion of wanting money to buy shoes and other gear. |
| Drugs | Hero is a drug dealer who goes straight; film includes smoking, drinking, and drug use and making. |
Dove Ratinghttps://dove.org/review/5195-get-rich-or-die-tryin/ | |
| Faith | None |
| Sex | several sex scenes |
| Language | S-50+; N-word-50+; f-50+; Language way over the top |
| Violence | Incredibly violent, gun shots, stabbings, drive-by shootings, graphic scene of man getting shot nine times, man getting gold teeth pulled out with pliers as form of torture, suffocation with plastic bag, burning of woman doused with gasoline, several fight scenes, child held at gunpoint. |
| Drugs | Drinking, cigarette smoking, smoking marijuana, manufacture and distribution of narcotics. |
| Nudity | Sexually suggestive clothing; women's breast shown; five naked men fighting in prison shower, full frontal and rear nudity both men and women. |
| Other | None |
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