85
Avg Score
Critic Scores
IMDb
8.6/10
869206 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Tomatometer
Metacritic
79/100
Metascore
Overview
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
Cast
Details
- Director
- Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles
- Writer
- Bráulio Mantovani, Paulo Lins
- Released
- 13 Feb 2004
- Box office
- $7,564,459
- Awards
- Nominated for 4 Oscars. 76 wins & 50 nominations total
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