Straight Outta Compton | |
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Directed by | F. Gary Gray |
Written by | Scott Marshall Smith |
Screenplay by | Jonathan Herman Andrea Berloff |
Story by | S. Leigh Savidge Alan Wenkus Andrea Berloff |
Produced by | Ice Cube Tomica Woods-Wright Matt Alvarez F. Gary Gray Scott Bernstein Dr. Dre |
Starring | O'Shea Jackson, Jr. Corey Hawkins Jason Mitchell Paul Giamatti Aldis Hodge Neil Brown, Jr. |
Cinematography | Matthew Libatique |
Edited by | Billy Fox |
Music by | Joseph Trapanese |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release dates | August 11, 2015 (Los Angeles premiere) August 14, 2015 (United States) |
Running time | 147 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $29 million[1] |
Box office | $80.2 million[2] |
Straight Outta Compton is a 2015 American biographical movie. It was directed by F. Gary Gray and it was produced by Ice Cube, Tomica Woods-Wright, Matt Alvarez, F. Gary Gray, Scott Bernstein, and Dr. Dre. Straight Outta Compton was released on August 14, 2015. The movie is about the Compton hip hop group N.W.A and it follows the group through their rise and fall.
The movie got positive reviews from critics. It has a 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[3] Movie critic Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the movie 3.5 stars out of 4 and called it "one of the better musical biopics of the last 20 years." Roeper said that the movie was "enthralling" and "energized" and he praised the cast for delivering "strong, memorable work that transcends mere imitation."[4]