Plot
An urban drama tale of an inner city orphaned street kid, who makes his mark in the drug trade. After some time living this lifestyle, he finally dares to leave the violence of his former life behind to pursue a promising career in the music business as a rapper.
Opening Scene
In an opening scene, Curtis is shot and left to die. This scene might as well come early, since everyone in the audience will know this happened to the real 50 Cent. "I was about to die," he says in the narration. "I don't know why I was expecting my father to rescue me -- been looking for him all my life."
| Cast | |||
| 50 Cent- Marcus Adewale Akinnuuoye- Agbaje- Majestic Joy Bryant- Charlene Omar Benson Miller- Keryl Tory Kittles- Justice | |||
| Box Office: Budget- $40,000,000 | |||
GRoss- $30,981,850 (USA- 29th January 06)
Production Company
Cent Productions Inc, Paramount Pictures, MTV Films
Distrubutors
Paramount Pictures
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Kidulthood by Esta Dixon
Main Plot:
The film is about two days in the life of a group of fifteen-year old teenagers from a rough area of London. Main themes include violence, sex, gangster lifestyle, pregenancy, and drug use. Lots of the themes are very true to modern teenage lives. the film is very "street", and depicts the life of working-class teens. the film begins in a school playground, at the end of lunch, and within the opening scenes we are shown all of the main themes. we therefore know exactly what to expect from the film. The next day, all the students we have been initially shown have a day of school due to the suicide of one of their peers. They use this day to steal, get high, shop, party have sex, etc - they act in a very deviant manner. The film ends with a boy being killed.
Key charechters: Include a group of three boys, Trife, Jay, and Moony. Jay is a lad, not afraid of anything, and likes to argue. Moony is quite shy when it comes to fighting, but wants to always say his piece and keep his reputations. He is the opposite to the stereotype 'Black guy so he must be dangerous'. Trife is the leader of their little group, and keeps himself to himself quite a lot.
Trife's Ex, Alisa is only 15 and pregenant. in the film she finds herself being drawn to drugs, alcohol and violence against herself when she is in a mood that she doesn't want a baby, but finds herself looking at childrens clothes when she is in the mood to keep it.
Her 'bestfriend' Becky has dodgey connections - she asks her sleazy friendfor some free canabis cocaine and ecstacy, which she pays for with sex. She goes on to have sex with an older man for money, and is shown through out the film to be a selfish, slutty girl.
Katie had been bullied to take her own life after being attacked in school and being forced to do their coursework. An older boy Sam has also been hassling Katie, and after she leaves a suicide note saying he was hassling her, katie's big brother comes after sam later. Sam often fights and bullies the younger characters, He is overall a horrible charechter, who ends up killing Trife in the end.
Production Companies
- Stealth Films
- Cipher Films
TMC FilmsIn the opening weekend made £100,056 in the box office.
Budget:
Distributors
- Revolver Entertainment
- Capelight Pictures
- Focus Films
- Future Film
- Image Entertainment
- Revolver Entertainment
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Genre: Urban drama, knife crime
Main plot:
An action film for the youth generation, set in a decaying future London. A gang set out on a chase to avenge the murder of one of their own.
Key characters:
Kedar Williams Stirling ...Junior
Adam Deacon......Kickz
Ashley Bashy Thomas....rager
Michael Socha ..... Craze
Opening scene
- Starts with production companies
- Gun slinger, production company appears as flashing lights and pulses... suggesting gunshots?
- in-between the production companies we hear and see a new report of a bunch of hooded boys/men in a riot. Give us a immediate image as to what the Movie is about.
- Start with a young, Afro/Caribbean boy being chased... not clear who by, preferable the police. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx41XxqsAgM
Production companies:
- Gunslinger
- Gateway Films
- Cinematic Production
Distributors:
- Revolver Entertainment (USA) (DVD)
- Revolver Entertainment (UK) (theatrical)
- Eagle Entertainment (2010) (Australia) (DVD)
Box Office sales:
- Budget: £385,000
- Opening weekend: £469,213
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Genre: Urban drama
Main plot:
An eighth-grade history teacher in an inner-city school deep in the heart of Brooklyn. He eschews the provided curriculum in favor of off-the-cuff, but deeply heartfelt lectures about the importance of understanding history, rather than just memorizing it. He started using drugs as a way to escape the pain of life, and it has turned into a crutch that
bears increasingly heavy loads of psychological weight.
Key characters:
- Ryan Gosling- Dan Dunne
- Jeff Lima- Roodly
- Shareeka Epps- Drey
- Nathan Corbett- Terrance
- Tristan Wilds- Jamal
Opening scene:
In the first two minutes of the film, we are introduced to a male character who seems to live in a sloppy way. He is sat in his underwear in his living room, with an alert alarm ringing. We find out that he is a school teacher in the second shot.
Production companies:
- Hunting Lane Films
- Journeyman Pictures
- Silverwood Films
- ThinkFilm
Box office:
- Budget: $700,000
- Opening weekend: $53,983
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