Straight Outta Compton
Director F. Gary Gray turns the meteoric rise and fractious fall of rap supergroup N.W.A. into a sprawling, exhilarating Los Angeles hip-hop epic.
Straight Outta Compton
In the mid-1980s, the streets of Compton, California were some of the most dangerous in the country. When five young men translated their experiences growing up there into brutally honest music that rebelled against abusive authority, they gave an explosive voice to a silenced generation. Following the meteoric rise and fall of N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton tells the astonishing story of how these youngsters revolutionized music and pop culture forever the moment they told the world the truth about life in the hood and ignited a cultural war.
Genre
Bio-pic,
Drama,
Music
Runtime
147
Language
English
Director
F Gary Gray
Cast
Corey Hawkins,
Aldis Hodge,
R Marcos Taylor,
Paul Giamatti
FEATURED REVIEW
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
When it first came out back in the summer of 1988, N.W.A’s debut album Straight Outta Compton sounded like a harrowing distress call from the streets of South Central Los Angeles. It was urgent, angry, and alive in a way that West Coast hip-hop hadn’t yet dared to be. In the album’s rat-a-tat ...
Played at
NoHo 7 8.13.15 - 9.17.15
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