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Poetic Justice (1993 film)

Poetic Justice
Poetic Justice (1993 movie poster).jpg
Directed by John Singleton
Produced by John Singleton
Steve Nicolaides
Dwight Alanzo Williams
Written by John Singleton
Starring
Music by Stanley Clarke
Cinematography Peter Lyons Collister
Edited by Bruce Cannon
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • July 23, 1993 (1993-07-23)
Running time
109 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $14 million
Box office $27,515,786
Poetic Justice: Music from the Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released June 29, 1993
Recorded 1992–1993
Genre Hip hop
R&B
West Coast hip hop
Length 45:51
Label New Deal Music
Epic Soundtrax
Producer Various artists
Singles from Poetic Justice: Music from the Motion Picture
  1. "Get It Up"
    Released: June 6, 1993
  2. "Indo Smoke"
    Released: June 8, 1993
  3. "Call Me a Mack"
    Released: December 16, 1993

Poetic Justice is a 1993 American romantic drama film starring Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur with Regina King and Joe Torry. It was written and directed by John Singleton.

The main character, Justice, writes poems which she recites throughout the movie. The poems featured in the film were written by Maya Angelou, and Angelou also appears in the film as one of the three elderly sisters whom the characters meet at a roadside family reunion. The Last Poets make an appearance toward the end of the film.

Poetic Justice reached #1 in the box office its opening weekend, grossing $11,728,455. It eventually grossed a total of $27,515,786.

Jackson received nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, with the Billboard Hot 100 number one song, "Again".

It was later referenced in Kendrick Lamar's single "Poetic Justice", which was titled after and based on the film. The song sampled Jackson's "Any Time, Any Place."

Shakur and fellow actors Lloyd Avery II and Dedrick Gobert would all meet violent deaths after the release of this film.

Justice (Janet Jackson) is a young woman living in South Central, Los Angeles. She was named Justice by her late mother, who gave birth to her while attending law school. After the shooting death of her boyfriend Markell (Q-Tip), Justice falls into a deep depression. She spends the majority of her time in the house she inherited from her grandmother, with her cat White Boy, only going out to her job at a local hair salon. Justice is a talented poet, she reads many of her poems throughout the course of the film, both to other characters and in voice over.


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