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4.1/10
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A gifted musician struggles to rise above the crime-plagued urban streets and realize his dream.A gifted musician struggles to rise above the crime-plagued urban streets and realize his dream.A gifted musician struggles to rise above the crime-plagued urban streets and realize his dream.
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- 1 nomination total
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This is a film where you think the hero is a good person, but he usually does some stupid things that in a moral movie woulnd't be redeemable. But not here. Pras has a fair performance here as a rap star who wants to make it big, legitimately, but he has to worry about his long time record producer, drug pusher and friend (Ja Rule in a not too bad first role), his father who returned after a 12 year absence and his girlfriend (Tamala Jones) who is pregnant. A couple of good points on the black music industry (literaly and figuratively) and a couple of stand out performances are cluttered by a lame excuse for a music video plot. Oh well, I guess you could catch this type of thing here, or somewhere else. Jason Statham is exceptional though as a british drug dealer, but even he can't help much. C+
This is probably 1 of 2 movies in the entirety of my life, where I left because it was so bad. The acting was non existent. The script was terrible. The action was terrible. How was this even released in theaters? It was straight to DVD at best. I wish I could sue for that time back. It was truly wasted. Do not waste yours.
this film was sad, the plot was hard to swallow only cause the poor acting job everyone did. The only reason i saw it was cause my uncle is in it. Even then all he dose is get shot and thats done poorly. All and all unintentionaly funny.
I saw this on Black Starz late at night. This is really bad, it's a fake wanna-be Belly with some terrible acting(especially Ja-Rule and Pras), the script was just flat-out lame, the shootout scenes were unrealistic like said earlier here and once again Ja-Rule was in it which made the movie worse than it already was and the live performances weren't any good neither... The only good thing about this movie was the scoring by Frank Fitzpatrick, other than that..
a str8 up embarrassment
1/10 - GAABAGE..
a str8 up embarrassment
1/10 - GAABAGE..
Very disappointing movie about a musician and his friend (Ja Rule aka the biggest sellout) who deliver weight in order to make money to fund the production of an album. This movie is a really bad rip off of the movies Belly and Juice. The acting is awful the lines the actors use are even worse, and how in the world was the budget for this movie 9 million dollars?? anyway avoid this movie I give it 2/10.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe working title for the film was "Ghetto Superstar".
- Quotes
Denzel: Bro, I told you. Don't fuck with my music.
David 'Gage' Williams: What the fuck is wrong with you? Nigga, B did you a favor hooking you up with Mr. White
Denzel: B don't do anybody no favors.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Ghetto Superstar
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,247,949
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $576,820
- Sep 10, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $1,247,949
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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