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Get Rich or Die Tryin'
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
2005 · Directed by Jim Sheridan · 116 min · Drama · Crime · Music · 13 frames
Tagline
If you think you know the story... You don't know the man.
Crew
- Written by: Terence Winter
- Cinematography: Declan Quinn
- Edited by: Roger Barton, Conrad Buff IV
- Music: Maurice Seezer, Gavin Friday, Quincy Jones
- Production design: Mark Geraghty
- Produced by: Chris Lighty, Jimmy Iovine, Renata Adamidov, Paul Rosenberg
Cast
- 50 Cent as Marcus
- Joy Bryant as Charlene
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Majestic
- Omar Benson Miller as Keryl
- Terrence Howard as Bama
- Viola Davis as Grandma
- Ashley Walters as Antwan
- Tory Kittles as Justice
- Marc John Jefferies as Young Marcus
- Sullivan Walker as Grandpa
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Spanish
- Studios: Cent Productions Inc., Paramount Pictures, MTV Films
- Budget: $40,000,000
- Box office: $46,442,528
- Themes: career, street gang, loss of loved one, rapper, attempted murder, ghetto, drugs, semi autobiographical
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