Bones (film)

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Bones
Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson
Produced by Rupert Harvey, Peter Heller, Lloyd Segan
Written by Adam Simon and Tim Metcalfe
Starring Snoop Dogg
Pam Grier
Michael T. Weiss
Music by Snoop Dogg
Cinematography Flavio Martínez Labiano
Editing by Michael N. Knue and Stephen Lovejoy
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date(s) October 26, 2001
Running time 96 min.
Language English
Budget $16 million
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Bones is a 2001 horror movie about a gangster that comes back from the dead to avenge his murder. The film stars Snoop Dogg as the title character Jimmy Bones.

The film is also a tribute to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s.

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[edit] Reviews

In their review, Ebert & Roeper disagreed as to whether the movie was intended as comedy or horror. Roeper, who interpreted it as a comedy, gave it an enthusiastic thumbs-up. However, the movie has been marketed purely as a horror film.

As of October 11, 2005, the film has an IMDB rating of 4.2/10 stars, significantly below average.

Other professional reviews can be read at Screen it!, Hollywood.com and Real Movie Critic

[edit] Trivia

Pam Grier is seen in the film as Jimmy Bones' love interest; although she is older than Snoop Dogg; this is explained by having him murdered twenty years before he was reanimated. They have collaborated together earlier in one of his music videos, and also played an artist-producer couple in the episodes of The L Word in 2004.

[edit] Box office

US Gross Domestic Takings: US$ 7,316,658

+ Other International Takings: $1,062,195

= Gross Worldwide Takings: $8,378,853

[edit] Awards

Black Reel Awards
Year Result Category
2002 Nomination Theatrical - Best Actress : Pam Grier

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