Grieving hairdresser Justice goes on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland on a mail truck alongside her friend and an obnoxious postal worker.Grieving hairdresser Justice goes on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland on a mail truck alongside her friend and an obnoxious postal worker.Grieving hairdresser Justice goes on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland on a mail truck alongside her friend and an obnoxious postal worker.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 5 wins & 5 nominations total
Kina Cosper
- Female Cousin
- (as Kina V. Cosper)
John Cothran
- Uncle Earl
- (as John Cothran Jr.)
Joseph Dalu
- Policeman #7
- (as Joe Dalu)
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- TriviaAccording to writer/producer/director John Singleton, when the 1992 Los Angeles riots occurred during filming, Tupac Shakur left the set to participate in the protest. He returned to the set in time for filming.
- GoofsIn the ambulance scene when Lucky rushes to see his cousin on the stretcher from a gunshot wound he violently shoves two police officers who try to calm him down and get him away from the body in actuality he would have been detained and arrested for assaulting an officer..
- Alternate versionsIn the Australian Free-to-Air version, the film had about 20mins cut out of it. Even though it was shown at 11:50pm (Jan 2001), just about all swearing and fight scenes were omitted.
- ConnectionsEdited into Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
- SoundtracksRhapsody in Blue
Written by George Gershwin
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Poetic Justice is an urban film but within this catgory it stands out from alot of them in its own way. The movie uses some very interesting elements that I was familiar with and like most urban films they use realistic characters. The camerawork is nothing new but some of it is really good to look at. Janet Jackson is good as the somewhat uptight poet/hairdresser who is mourning the loss of her lover while on a night out with him as is Tupac in a rather different role from the ones he has in Juice, Bullet and Above The Rim. Not only is the role different but as a man it's impossible to not relate to him as you see his struggles in his life including one powerful scene in which he catches his baby's mother smokin' crack and having other men in his daughter's presence - I thought this worked great because I know how I'd feel if I had a kid and my baby's mother is bringing other men around my kid: I wouldn't be too happy. The road trip is where you begin to see all the characters(Pac Shakur, Janet Jackson, Regina King and Joe Torry) develop and John Singleton wastes little time doing that during that time...
Poetic Justice is a movie deserving alot more credit than it's getting but too bad there are people out there with stupid stereotypical assumptions so idiotic it can get someone angry
8/10
Poetic Justice is a movie deserving alot more credit than it's getting but too bad there are people out there with stupid stereotypical assumptions so idiotic it can get someone angry
8/10
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Box office
- Budget
- $14,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $27,515,786
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,728,455
- Jul 25, 1993
- Gross worldwide
- $27,515,786
- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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