GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up!

GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up! (2010)

  • 42% of critics liked it
    (12 reviews)

  • 89% of users liked it
    (101 ratings)

Documentary filmmakers William Arntz and E. Raymond Brown draw parallels between Wall Street power players and ghetto pimps through interviews with such outspoken celebrities as Ice-T, KRS-One, Too Short, and Dr. Cornel West. Animations and satirical dramatizations portray how the same power… More

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R, 1 hr. 34 min.
Directed By
William Arntz, E. Raymond Brown
Written By
William Arntz, E. Raymond Brown
Genres
Documentary, Drama, Special Interest
In Theaters
Oct 22, 2010 Limited
On DVD
Mar 1, 2011
Independent Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

    The film's notion that an understanding that life on the street works much like it does in the corridors of the highest levels of politics, government, religion and the military has much merit, but GhettoPhysics undercuts its approach...

  • Dennis Harvey, Variety

    The concept -- that everyone and everything is either exploiting or being exploited -- gets old fast, and never loses its cheap misogynist edge.

  • Tom Long, Detroit News

    It's all low budget and inventive, and mildly impressive if far too repetitive and ultimately fuzzy.

  • Stephanie Merry, Washington Post

    Unfortunately, the interviews are interspersed with a drama that clutters the message more than illuminates it.

  • Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

    A radically ingenious, in-your-face documentary hybrid that takes the basic street relationship between pimps and hookers and holds it up on a global scale.

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