Plot
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Release Year: 2005
Rating: 4.2/10 (21,944 voted)
Critic's Score: 45/100
Director:
Jim Sheridan
Stars: 50 Cent, Joy Bryant, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Storyline A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Cast: 50 Cent
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Marcus
(as Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson)
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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Majestic
Joy Bryant
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Charlene
Omar Benson Miller
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Keryl
Tory Kittles
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Justice
Terrence Howard
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Bama
Ashley Walters
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Antwan
Marc John Jefferies
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Young Marcus
Viola Davis
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Grandma
Sullivan Walker
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Grandpa
Serena Reeder
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Katrina
Bill Duke
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Levar
Mpho Koaho
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Junebug
Russell Hornsby
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Odell
Joseph Pierre
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Uncle Deuce
Taglines:
At the end of the day, what will you hang on to?
Filming Locations: Ardmore Studios, Herbert Road, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
Box Office Details
Budget: $40,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $12,020,807
(USA)
(13 November 2005)
(1652 Screens)
Gross: $30,981,850
(USA)
(29 January 2006)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia: Samuel L. Jackson was offered the role of Levar but turned it down. He told an interviewer that while he liked 50's music, he did not feel that 50 Cent earned the right to star in a film by Jim Sheridan. However, Jackson later co-starred with 50 in
Home of the Brave.
Goofs:
Anachronisms:
When young Marcus is about to "protect" his mom when she's confronting the drug dealer who's working her corner, Marcus' weapon was a club, that particular club didn't come out until the early '90s.
Quotes: Marcus:
Come on, say that again, come on get in the car Bama:
Its like when I'm right I'm right, when I'm wrong I could been right, so I'm still right cause I coulda been wrong, you know, and I'm sorry cause I could be wrong right now, I could be wrong, but if I'm right...
User Review
Another Petty Nihilist Hits the Jackpot
Rating: 1/10
50 Cent is decidedly no mere circus performer; unlike him, circus
performers possess real talent. Yet, while his musical talent is
certainly nil, it would be a mistake to argue that he therefore
altogether lacks talent. In fact, 50 - very much like the legions of
other gangster rappers - possesses great talent: the talent of a
virtuoso con artist. 50 is banking on a pandemic of cataclysmically
cheapened tastes - in other words, on the very aesthetic decline that
made these other blissfully unconscious con artists rich. This
extraordinary, innate ability to identify and exploit today's mass
degeneration of taste is a truly supreme talent - a talent reaching to
the very depths of cynicism. 50's nihilistic celebration of the
meaningless and absurd is, of course, very "postmodern," very
fashionable. As such we'll doubtless continue to skip and whistle our
way to oblivion. Yes, 50 Cent is a joke. Unfortunately, the joke is on
us.
As for this "film", I for one believe that if something's not worth
doing, it's not worth doing well. So just as it's impossible for me to
get excited over a spectacular tattoo, a gold chain, or the latest
cutting-edge developments in nose-piercing technology, I have trouble
taking seriously anything having to do with 50 cent. He is a thug, a
petty nihilist, and a symptom of cultural decline. Nothing more.
I am a black man, and 50 Cent in no way represents me or anyone I know.
I think it's shameful the way he's plastered up all over town. What he
represents is the worst that our culture has to offer.
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