“The High Stakes Gamble: A Deep Dive into ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’”
Get Rich or Die Tryin' is a crime drama film, released in 2005, hurtling into the bleak and unforgiving reality faced by a young man whose way up to success had only one question at its end-mission, 'To make a dime or not'. The movie, by Jim Sheridan, also stars 50 Cent in the leading role, as Marcus, an inhabitant of New York City's harshest streets and desperate to move upwards by adopting first the precarious drug dealing trade and, subsequently, music. It is of course based on his life, but