All About the Benjamins
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This article is about the 2002 film. For the Puff Daddy song, see It's All about the Benjamins.
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| Directed by | Kevin Bray |
| Produced by | Matt Alvarez Ice Cube |
| Written by | Ice Cube Ronald Lang |
| Starring | Ice Cube Mike Epps Eva Mendes Tommy Flanagan Carmen Chaplin Valarie Rae Miller Roger Guenveur Smith Anthony Michael Hall Lil' Bow Wow |
| Music by | John Murphy |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) | March 8, 2002 |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15,000,000 |
| Box office | $26,306,533[1] |
All About the Benjamins is a 2002 action movie/comedy movie directed by Kevin Bray, and starring Ice Cube and Mike Epps as a bounty hunter and repeat offender who join forces to find a group of diamond thieves, the former for glory, and the latter to retrieve a winning lottery ticket.
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[edit] Cast
- Ice Cube as Bucum, a maverick bounty hunter trying to acquire the funds to start a private investigation firm. Initially interested only in finding a group of diamond thieves who shot at him, he later decides to solve the heist case in order to generate publicity for his would-be firm.
- Mike Epps as Reggie, a two-time hustler previously apprehended by Bucum three times, who regularly skips out on bail. Narrowly escaping death after hiding the diamond thieves' getaway van, he sets out after them in order to recover his wallet containing a winning lottery ticket.
- Eva Mendes as Gina, Reggie's trusting live-in girlfriend, who picked the winning lottery numbers, and helps him look for the wallet containing the winning ticket following a break-in at their apartment.
[edit] Crritical Reception
All About the Benjamins scored poorly on Rotten Tomatoes with 30% on the Tomatometer. Some of the critics said it was, "A sloppy, poorly directed action-comedy, All About the Benjamins is too derivative and gratuitously violent." [2]
[edit] Soundtrack
Main article: All About the Benjamins (soundtrack)
A soundtrack containing hip hop and R&B music was released on February 19, 2002 by New Line Records. It peaked at #65 on the Billboard 200 and #12 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
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