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Release Date
• USA: Oct 25, 2002
DVD Release Date
• R1: Apr 8, 2003
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MPAA Rating
Rated R for violence, pervasive language, some strong sexuality and drug content.
Running Time
1 hour, 37 minutes
Country USA
Studio Dimension Films, Loud Films, Rat Entertainment, Roc-A-Fella Productions
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• Paid in Full
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Drugs, Urban, Gangsters, True Story, Suspense
Tagline: The American Dream... Their way.
Plot: 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.
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Mekhi Phifer
Dawn of the Dead, 8 Mile, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer |
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 | Chi McBride
I, Robot, Gone in Sixty Seconds, The Terminal |
 | Elise Neal
Scream 2, Mission to Mars, Hustle & Flow |
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Being John Malkovich, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Always Outnumbered | |
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