Player Hating: A Love Story

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Player Hating: A Love Story

Released Apr 6, 2012

1h 37m

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A hip-hop artist named Half-a-Mill and his crew use music to try to escape from a life of poverty and violence in the Albany Housing Projects.

Sara Stewart

New York Post

It's a sobering slice of life that puts actual faces to local violent crime statistics.

Rated: 2/4

Apr 6, 2012

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

A sad chronicle of absent fathers and messed-up mothers, drugs as currency and violence as the period at the end of every argument.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 5, 2012

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Nick Schager

Village Voice

[Cuts] through the clichs about "thug life" to capture how violence is an integral, corrosive part of inner-city life.

Apr 3, 2012

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Jennifer Merin

About.com

A rare insider glimpse at a lifestyle of deprivation that drums all ambition out of some youngsters, and pushes others to do whatever they need to do and can do to succeed.

Rated: 5/5

Apr 11, 2012

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David Noh

Film Journal International

Hardcore investigation of ghetto life is undoubtedly powerful but proves perplexing, intent-wise.

Apr 6, 2012

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Maggie Hadleigh-West

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Maggie Hadleigh-West

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Jasun Wardlaw

Original Music

Emmanual Bastien

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Kristen Eccker

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Steve McCauley

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Synopsis

A hip-hop artist named Half-a-Mill and his crew use music to try to escape from a life of poverty and violence in the Albany Housing Projects.

Director: Maggie Hadleigh-West
Producer: Maggie Hadleigh-West
Distributor: Area23a
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 6, 2012, Limited
Runtime: 1h 37m