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"City of God"
About the Movie "City of God" on DVD

DVD Release Date: June 8, 2004

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Tagline: "15 miles from paradise ... one man will do anything to tell the world everything."

Length: 130 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for strong brutal violence, sexuality, drug content and language

Nominated for four Academy Awards (Best Director, Cinematography, Editing, Adapted Screenplay), this Portuguese-language drama is about youth gangs in Rio de Janeiro. A narrator known as Rocket recounts his experiences in a Rio slum called Cidade de Deus (City of God) during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. It's an unsettling tale of poverty, kids, guns, and drugs, but Rocket manages to find a niche for himself as a photographer.

~ Ivana Redwine

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