Get rich or die tryin'

Resource Information

The work Get rich or die tryin' represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nevins Memorial Library (Methuen). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Get rich or die tryin'

Statement of responsibility

Paramount Pictures presents an Interscope/Shady/Aftermath Films and MTV Films production, a Jim Sheridan film ; produced by Jimmy Iovine, Paul Rosenberg, Chris Lighty ; written by Terence Winter ; produced and directed by Jim Sheridan

Contributor

• Paramount Pictures Corporation
• 50 Cent, (Musician)
• Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Adewale, 1967-
• Bryant, Joy, 1976-
• Duke, Bill, 1943-
• Friday, Gavin
• Howard, Terrence
• Jones, Quincy, 1933-
• Quinn, Declan, 1957-
• Seezer, Maurice
• Sheridan, Jim, 1949-

Subject

• Action and adventure films
• Feature films
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Gangsters -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• Rap musicians -- Drama
• Videodiscs

Genre

• Action and adventure films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Films for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

A rap superhero is encased in muscular flesh like armor, his face is an impassive mask, he reaches out to destroy his enemies with his unique talent. Marcus is a gangster who breaks from his youthful life of crime to triumph as a rapper. Marcus's girlfriend helps him pull free the wires holding his jaw shut when he's recovered from being shot in the face. He even has a moment when a razor blade is thrown into his cell and is encouraged to kill himself. Instead, the self-reliant gangster uses it to carve his rhymes into the walls

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Declan Quinn ; editor, Conrad Buff ; music score, Quincy Jones, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer ; costume designer, Francine Jamison-Tanchuck ; production designer, Mark Geraghty

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for strong violence, pervasive langauge, drug content, sexuality and nudity

Language note

Closed-captioned; dialogue in English (5.1 Surround ; 2.0 Surround) or French (5.1 Surround) with optional English or Spanish subtitles

LC call number

PN1995.9.G3

LC item number

G48 2006

PerformerNote

Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, Terrence Howard, Joy Bryant, Bill Duke, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Omar Benson Miller, Viola Davis

Runtime

116

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action