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Straight Outta Compton

  • 2015
  • 14A
  • 2h 27m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
215K
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Neil Brown Jr., Aldis Hodge, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, and O'Shea Jackson Jr. in Straight Outta Compton (2015)
The group NWA emerges from the streets of Compton, California in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes pop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.
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The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.

  • Director
    • F. Gary Gray
  • Writers
    • Jonathan Herman
    • Andrea Berloff
    • S. Leigh Savidge
  • Stars
    • O'Shea Jackson Jr.
    • Corey Hawkins
    • Jason Mitchell
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    215K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,939
    127
    • Director
      • F. Gary Gray
    • Writers
      • Jonathan Herman
      • Andrea Berloff
      • S. Leigh Savidge
    • Stars
      • O'Shea Jackson Jr.
      • Corey Hawkins
      • Jason Mitchell
    • 424User reviews
    • 352Critic reviews
    • 72Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 28 wins & 40 nominations total

    Videos47

    Theatrical Trailer
    Trailer 2:33
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    Red Band Trailer
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    Exclusive Clip
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    Straight Outta Compton: Tribute to Eazy-E
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    Straight Outta Compton: Jerry Heller Defends The Nwa
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    Straight Outta Compton: Dre Tells His Mother
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    Straight Outta Compton: Nwa Press Conference
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    Straight Outta Compton: Dre Gets A Call
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    Straight Outta Compton: New Talent
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    Straight Outta Compton: Straight Outta London (Featurette)
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    Straight Outta Compton: Fab 5 Freddy Playing Legends (Featurette)
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    Straight Outta Compton: Fab 5 Freddy Shooting In L.A. (Featurette)
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    Neil Brown Jr. in Straight Outta Compton (2015)
    Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and F. Gary Gray in Straight Outta Compton (2015)
    Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, and O'Shea Jackson Jr. in Straight Outta Compton (2015)
    Aldis Hodge in Straight Outta Compton (2015)
    Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, and O'Shea Jackson Jr. in Straight Outta Compton (2015)
    Corey Hawkins in Straight Outta Compton (2015)
    O'Shea Jackson Jr. in Straight Outta Compton (2015)
    Ice Cube, Neil Brown Jr., Dr. Dre, Aldis Hodge, DJ Yella, M.C. Ren, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, and O'Shea Jackson Jr. in Straight Outta Compton (2015)
    Jason Mitchell in Straight Outta Compton (2015)
    Paul Giamatti in Straight Outta Compton (2015)
    F. Gary Gray in Straight Outta Compton (2015)
    Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, and O'Shea Jackson Jr. in Straight Outta Compton (2015)

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    O'Shea Jackson Jr.
    O'Shea Jackson Jr.
    • Ice Cube
    Corey Hawkins
    Corey Hawkins
    • Dr. Dre
    Jason Mitchell
    Jason Mitchell
    • Eazy-E
    Neil Brown Jr.
    Neil Brown Jr.
    • DJ Yella
    Aldis Hodge
    Aldis Hodge
    • MC Ren
    Marlon Yates Jr.
    Marlon Yates Jr.
    • D.O.C.
    R. Marcus Taylor
    R. Marcus Taylor
    • Suge Knight
    Carra Patterson
    Carra Patterson
    • Tomica
    Alexandra Shipp
    Alexandra Shipp
    • Kim
    Paul Giamatti
    Paul Giamatti
    • Jerry Heller
    Elena Goode
    Elena Goode
    • Nicole
    Keith Powers
    Keith Powers
    • Tyree
    Joshua Brockington
    Joshua Brockington
    • Young Warren G
    Sheldon A. Smith
    Sheldon A. Smith
    • Warren G
    LaKeith Stanfield
    LaKeith Stanfield
    • Snoop
    • (as Lakeith Lee Stanfield)
    Cleavon McClendon
    Cleavon McClendon
    • Jinx
    • (as Cleavon McClendon III)
    Aeriél Miranda
    Aeriél Miranda
    • Lavetta
    Lisa Renee Pitts
    Lisa Renee Pitts
    • Verna Griffin
    • Director
      • F. Gary Gray
    • Writers
      • Jonathan Herman
      • Andrea Berloff
      • S. Leigh Savidge
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      The actors re-recorded NWA's entire Straight Outta Compton album (with producer Harvey Mason Jr.) to help them get into character.
    • Goofs
      The opening scene is set in 1986, and Eazy-E is seen wearing the black and white Chicago White Sox hat. However the White Sox did not adopt that logo until 1991.
    • Quotes

      Eazy-E: Hey, ya'll lookin for Felicia?

      Felicia's Man: She in there or what?

      Eazy-E: She kinda preoccupied with some real nigga dick.

      Felicia's Man: [Revealing the gun] The fuck you say little nigga?

      Eazy-E: [Comes out with a machine gun, Cube and Ren behind him with guns too] I said, she got a muthafuckin dick in her mouth nigga!

    • Crazy credits
      The only opening credits are graffiti writings of the main characters and their actors.
    • Alternate versions
      The "Unrated Director's Cut" is 18 minutes longer than the theatrical release.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Ice Cube/Mamie Gummer/Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      Straight Outta Compton
      Written by Ice Cube (as O'Shea Jackson), M.C. Ren (as Lorenzo Patterson), Eazy-E (as Eric Wright), Dr. Dre (as Andre Young)

      Performed by NWA (as N.W.A)

      Courtesy of Priority Records/Ruthless Records

      Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

    User reviews424

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    8/10
    Rhymes of The Ghetto
    "Straight Outta Compton" has the similar taste of the other Music business,Wall Street business and the merchandise business movies which could easily satisfy and inspire the young audience to live their Katharsis of being a successful man or woman in the future, like the depicted successful people in these biographical genre movies. Because of theming this advantageous fact, usually these kinds of movies reaches the box office success in a short time (The Recent Example is The Wolf of Wall Street ). In addition to that, if you choose real biographic characters who live in ghettos and climbing the huge wall of the world's top in a while, definitely sell. Especially to young needy teenagers and young people eager to try everything to break the societies pressures and taboos.

    The expectation on the box office is important of course. "Straight Outta Compton" will possibly gain the success on box office.But some effectiveness' can make the audience feel uncomfortable about watching it again or remember it as their one of all time favorite classic. At least I will criticize the defectiveness that I have determined after I watched the movie until the end.

    The Subject of the biographic approach of Rap All-Stars is a perfect and unique idea. The originality can't be questioned. However the catharsis that I have mentioned before could not work for all cinema audience, I found the directing, acting and narration superficial.This was not the first biographical movie that has disappointed me with its narration and process of progression. And I think that won't be the last for sure.That's another argument.The main point is some biographies made by commercial concerns and cosmetic structure, harms them sometimes.This is the Rap Music's fathers' story,the action scenes could be more efficient on the contrary of matching some action b-movies, the classical and vigilant music agent profile played by Paul Giamatti, gave me the feeling of the same type which I ran across in other Music based movies.The actors who play the role of The Rap creators are good. The lack of the Katharsis begins with their shallow depiction, so that I definitely think that Dre or Ice Cube or Eazy E's lives depiction with other characters and crowded casting had created that mess and caused the defectiveness. Because almost 2 and a half hour movie isn't enough to depict the whole family of rap's beginning and the depiction of separate lives of them could make a better order in the narration. Linked to that criticism of the shallow narration, the documentary trace additions which would be a good idea on a biographical Movie, was used ineffectively in my opinion. For Example The Rap's born documentary series on VH1 would be watchable for all kinds of documentary lovers, so I believe that in the movie this magazine coverage documentary style is used by showing the social struggles of the Rapper's since their youth, the police's tough attitudes to the Black Citizens in their Neighbourhoods and putting the actual footage of the fights and plundering in the ghettos. However the idea of Half magazine and half crime narrated documentary style using in a movie, is very hard job and I realized that some parts were good adopted from this kind of E! or VH1 documentaries but some parts seemed weak because of several things that make the distinction between Documentary Movie and Cinema Movie, which would cause dead ends on the narration of Cinema Movie.

    For instance the lack of voice narration as a result of the director's obligation of staying out of magazine words, the time-lapse difference between a documentary and a movie,the slow timing usage to tell the story in the movie on the contrary of a rushing biographical documentary and doing it with telling the audience the story of at least 5-6 rap stars in such a slow occasion, had killed the spirit of the "Magazine-Documentary- Biography" triplet style depiction. But I still believe that "Straight Outta Compton" could easily be the first and unique example of the future styles of direction and maybe could create a new unique genre as well.
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    • Sep 20, 2015

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    • Release date
      • August 14, 2015 (Canada)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Ban Nhạc Rap Huyền Thoại
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Universal Pictures
      • Legendary Entertainment
      • New Line Cinema
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $28,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $161,197,785
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $60,200,180
      • Aug 16, 2015
    • Gross worldwide
      • $201,634,991
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 27 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • SDDS
      • Datasat
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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