The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.
- Awards
- 36 wins & 58 nominations
Marjorie Crump-Shears
- Grandma Bonnie
- (as Marjorie Shears)
Bianca Rodriguez III
- Vanessa
- (as Bianca Rodriguez)
Kenny Grimm
- Jason
- (as Kenny Griffin)
Tommy Wright
- Tim
- (as Thomas Wright)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAfter funding fell through, Octavia Spencer offered to forgo her salary to help Ryan Coogler keep to his budget.
- GoofsWhen Oscar's mother visits him in prison, the text on-screen reads "New Year's 2007." Oscar mentions seeing WALL·E (2008) with his daughter. That film was released in June 2008.
- Quotes
Oscar Grant: You shot me. I got a daughter...
- ConnectionsFeatured in Maltin on Movies: Pacific Rim (2013)
Featured review
It's almost a Hitchcockian exercise what Coogler does. Showing the climatic incident from the start, making his audience know exactly how the incident happened, where it's all leading to, leaving us during the entire movie in the expectation of when is it finally going to hit.
The tragedy deepens from the first message he sends until the birthday of his mother, as we see all the memories piled up on the fridge and the director frames the last time Oscar we'll be with his family, closing the second act and leading us to what we know to be the inevitable end.
And during the entire movie, the director leaves what seems to be hints for any explication that might make us understand what happened. The drugs, the blood, his anger. Almost defying us to take those as signs of what we would normally think if taken out of context.
And yet, the randomness of the moment is so much more impactful because there's no reason to it. Despite the fight that spikes it, all we see until then are signs of the redemption Oscar seeks, because of his daughter, and the abrupt end to all of it. "You shot me", the lasting words of a confused man, as we are by the end.
The tragedy deepens from the first message he sends until the birthday of his mother, as we see all the memories piled up on the fridge and the director frames the last time Oscar we'll be with his family, closing the second act and leading us to what we know to be the inevitable end.
And during the entire movie, the director leaves what seems to be hints for any explication that might make us understand what happened. The drugs, the blood, his anger. Almost defying us to take those as signs of what we would normally think if taken out of context.
And yet, the randomness of the moment is so much more impactful because there's no reason to it. Despite the fight that spikes it, all we see until then are signs of the redemption Oscar seeks, because of his daughter, and the abrupt end to all of it. "You shot me", the lasting words of a confused man, as we are by the end.
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Box office
- Budget
- $900,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $16,101,339
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $386,291
- Jul 14, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $17,385,830
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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