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The American Dream... Their way.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 24, 2013
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Miramax Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Wood Harris, Cam'ron & Mekhi Phifer | |
Performer: | Chi McBride, Esai Morales, Regina Hall, Kevin Carroll & Elise Neal | |
Directed by | Charles Stone III | |
Screenwriting by | Austin Phillips, Azie Faison, Jr., Matthew Cirulnick & Thulani Davis | |
Composition by | Vernon Reid & Frank Fitzpatrick | |
Produced by | Damon Dash & Brett Ratner | |
Director of Photography: | Paul Sarossy |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Harris and Phifer's chemistry lends the inevitable tragedies some genuine punch.
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TheMovieReport.com
Rating: 3/4 --
This familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences, though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times.
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Seattle Times
Rating: B- --
hough it shows bling, strong feelings for the inner city and the acting is solid, the derivative story won't knock you out.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
For a rapsploitation film to target and frown upon the darker forces of its nature is certainly a good sign for the maturation of the genre.
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Boxoffice Magazine
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Rings true, from the smooth dialogue to the unaffected performances of the central actors.
New York Post
Rating: 4/5 --
Violent crime drama about drug dealer has constant cursing.
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Common Sense Media
...[Phifer] is electric and true...
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
Set in the early 1980s, this entry in the African-American urban gangster genre puts character development in the front seat for a change as it rolls through the Harlem streets on its usual rise-and-fall route. Ace (Wood Harris) starts out a laundry delivery guy, but thanks to a chance encounter with a Latin coke dealer (Esai Morales), he quickly works his way to the top of a drug empire. Mitch (Mekhi Phifer) is his more extroverted, colorful pal, the "born hustler" whose bravado hides a tragic family life. For a while the money just keeps rolling in and everyone's happy, but then comes the inevitable turn to tragedy, heralded by the arrival of the brash, trigger-happy Rico (rapper Cam'ron in his screen debut). A sensitive script and moody direction by Charles Stone III allows PAID IN FULL to sidestep a lot of the cliched glamour of similar films. The violence is realistically depicted, and the ultimate emptiness and paranoia of the lifestyle is allowed to manifest slowly through a nice, low-key performance by Harris. Roc-a-Fella mogul Damon Dash produced, based on the true story of Harlem drug lords he remembers from his childhood, one of whom even served as a technical advisor.