Straight Outta Compton Family Review
Straight Outta Compton Summary
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.In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels-armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent-stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world's most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.—Universal PicturesIn 1980s, a group of five men built a revolutionary hiphop music group named N.W.A in the hard circumstances of one of the most dangerous suburban in the US. Their debute album with controversial tracks that represent the minorities insecurity, Straight Outta Compton became popular. Along with their concert trip journey and powerful friendship that get tightened every single day, the controversies from the tracks from their album forced them to face the authorities. Their journey turned them into the dark side of fame- sex, drugs, and self insecurity, trigger a lot of life-changing events that are going after them. In this condition, they have to maintain themselves to avoid dangerous troubles that getting closer to them.—GusdeIce Cube, Dr. dre, Eric Wright and the other members of NWA are experiencing police brutality and working at dead end jobs. Together they work through the struggles of living in Compton by putting some of Eric's drug money to good use and starting a record label that blows up. The music they produce generates controversy and brings a lot of national attention to the group. The film follows them through the transition of normal people to global stars.—gavin JohnsEntrenched in the racial tumult of Los Angeles in the mid-1980's, a group of aspiring rappers banded together to revolutionize the global consumption of hip-hop and popular culture. NWA was born out of racial frustration and the disadvantaged economics of their South Central neighborhood. F. Gary Gray directs this biopic about the rise to stardom for the act that earned the moniker of "The World's Most Dangerous Group", featuring Ice Cube's son O'Shea Jackson Jr. playing the role of his father, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, and Jason Mitchell as the late Eazy-E.
2015 | 147 Minutes