Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Drama, Music, History • 2h 27m
Overview
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.
Director: F. Gary Gray
Cast: O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr., Aldis Hodge, Paul Giamatti, R. Marcos Taylor, LaKeith Stanfield, Carra Patterson, Elena Goode, Alexandra Shipp, Tate Ellington, Corey Reynolds, Keith Powers, Orlando Brown, Marlon Yates Jr., Joshua Brockington, Sheldon A. Smith, Cleavon McClendon, Aeriél Miranda, Lisa Renee Pitts, Angela Elayne Gibbs, Bruce Beatty, Rogelio Douglas Jr., Andrew Borba, Natascha Hopkins, Matt Corboy, Larry Sullivan, Deborah Lacey, F. Gary Gray, Allen Maldonado, Demetrius Grosse, Michael 'Compton Menace' Taylor, Ashton Sanders, Joshua Geter, Kofi Siriboe, Matthew Boylan, Chic Daniel, Tim Connolly, Cris D'Annunzio, Dan Wells, Justin Goslee, Alex Wexo, Marcus Callender, Vaughn Wilkinson, Dean Cameron, Mark Thomas Holguin, Sky Soleil, Inny Clemons, Jody Burks, Asia'h Epperson, Scott Endicott, Greg Collins, Mark Sherman, Rob Brownstein, Marcc Rose, Water L, Nigel Lawes, William LaDawn English, Lazarus Guidry, Ariel Rogers, LaFrazia D. Knighten, Ashley Stepteau, Christian Brown, Ebony Randall, John Prosky, Derrick L. McMillon, A. Russell Andrews, Lesean Tarkington, Rob Nagle, Travis Nicholson, Todd Quillen, Matthew Downs, Leo Stallworth, Joy Benedict, David L. Cox, Thomas Q. Jones, Toni Duclottni, Phedra Syndelle, Val Emanuel, Spencer Melville, Michael W. Broomer, Zee James, Simon Rhee, Keion Adams, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Aswad Ali, Diana Atai, Thomas R. Baker, Cassandra Bautista, Dave Bean, Brian Bell, Melissa Bidgoli, Dakota Black, Ashanna Bri, David Anthony Buglione, Charity Caldwell, Tonya T. Cannon, Kadrolsha Ona Carole, Menah Carter, Bryan Casserly, Steve Troublesome Castillo, Rey Castro, Leonel Claude, Anna Clols, David Cohen, Shanae Cole, Shaniece Cole, Callen David, Kelsey Delemar, Julius Denem, David Donah, Greg Duncan, Michael Eauslin, Fernando Edwards, Arturo Encinas, Scott Engrotti, Vi Faulkner, Suzanne Sumner Ferry, Ciera Foster, Americo Galli, Khalid Ghajji, Brian Gilleece, Tekin Girgin, David Greyson, Phillipos Haile, Benicio Hall, Joe P. Harris, Krystal M. Harris, David S. Robinson Hicks, Solange Hordatt, India Howard, Michael L. Howard, Jahmilla Jackson, Precious Jenkins, Dwayne Marion Johnson, Jason Johnson, Jessica Juarez, Steve Kaufmann, Samantha Kelly, David Dustin Kenyon, Slim Khezri, Tiffany Kimbrough, Ina-Alice Kopp, J. Kristopher, Ray Leonard, Jr., Jamaal Lewis, Blu Lindsey, Wilfred Lopez, Ron Lunceford, Mota Maria, Jaron Marquis, Newton Mayenge, Brian Metran, Tsion Mitchell, Lex Montgomery, Lawrence Moran, Phillip O’Riley, David Pearl, Oscar Pereida, Chauntae Pink, Ladell Preston, Sean Quezada, Jamal Quezaire, Diezel Ramos, Xu Razer, Phillip Ristaino, Jana Ritter, Toryan Rogers, Vince Romo, Alex Roth, Kimberly Ryans, Philicia Saunders, Carmina Scarpa, Caileigh Scott, Prince Shah, Rick Silver, Marvin 'Knife' Sotelo, Jimmy Star, Maria Sten, Franklin J. Sterns, Philly Swain, Bogdan Szumilas, Yatoya Toy, Steve Turner, David Ulmer, Lauren Daisy White, Leland White, Sierra Meshele Williams, Tyron Woodley, Mercedes Young, David McClellan
Director: F. Gary Gray
Director: F. Gary Gray
Director: F. Gary Gray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray (caveat: theatrical only in 4K)
Director: F. Gary Gray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray (caveat: theatrical only in 4K)
Theatrical: Universal 4K Blu-ray
Extended Director's Cut: 4K Streaming
Theatrical: Universal 4K Blu-ray
Extended Director's Cut: 4K Streaming
Theatrical: Universal 4K Blu-ray
Extended Director's Cut: 4K Streaming
Theatrical: Universal 4K Blu-ray
Extended Director's Cut: 4K Streaming
Director: George Roy Hill
Director: George Roy Hill
France M6 4K Blu-ray has Dolby Vision, but is inferior with more washed out colors and inferior encoding plus no hardcoded subtitles for the Portuguese language parts
France M6 4K Blu-ray has Dolby Vision, but is inferior with more washed out colors and inferior encoding plus no hardcoded subtitles for the Portuguese language parts
Director: Joe Wright
Director: Joe Wright
Director: Robert Budreau
Director: Robert Budreau
Directors: Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson
2011 Blu-ray (4K Blu-ray is upscaled; former PDI animator Jonathan Gibbs confirms the film was originally rendered at 1828 pixels wide to save space)
Universal 25th Anniversary 4K Blu-ray with Dolby Vision and Atmos
2011 Blu-ray (4K Blu-ray is upscaled; former PDI animator Jonathan Gibbs confirms the film was originally rendered at 1828 pixels wide to save space)
The old 2 disc DVD has extras missing from 4K Blu-ray
Directors: Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson
2011 Blu-ray (4K Blu-ray is upscaled; former PDI animator Jonathan Gibbs confirms the film was originally rendered at 1828 pixels wide to save space)
Universal 25th Anniversary 4K Blu-ray with Dolby Vision and Atmos
2011 Blu-ray (4K Blu-ray is upscaled; former PDI animator Jonathan Gibbs confirms the film was originally rendered at 1828 pixels wide to save space)
The old 2 disc DVD has extras missing from 4K Blu-ray
Director: Martin Scorsese
Director: Martin Scorsese
Director: Ivan Reitman
Plaion German 4K Blu-ray > US Kino Lorber see comparison and caps
Kino Lorber has an exceedingly poor encode, only slightly improved by the DV layer.
Original matrixed Dolby Stereo: Universal US Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos remix: Plaion DE 4K Blu-ray
Universal's BD uses the same transfer as the old LaserDisc and sounds a bit better than Plaion's, which has worse dynamics.
Plaion's Atmos remix is tastefully done and preserves the original mix's characteristics, the 5.1 track on Kino's release is overly aggressive and unbalanced.
Director: Ivan Reitman
Plaion German 4K Blu-ray > US Kino Lorber see comparison and caps
Kino Lorber has an exceedingly poor encode, only slightly improved by the DV layer.
Original matrixed Dolby Stereo: Universal US Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos remix: Plaion DE 4K Blu-ray
Universal's BD uses the same transfer as the old LaserDisc and sounds a bit better than Plaion's, which has worse dynamics.
Plaion's Atmos remix is tastefully done and preserves the original mix's characteristics, the 5.1 track on Kino's release is overly aggressive and unbalanced.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
More Drama on Blu-ray
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: S. S. Rajamouli
Zee5 Streaming has the original Telugu audio and English subtitles (albeit with English portions also overdubbed in Telugu)
Netflix Streaming only has the Hindi dub but better video quality
France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray coming in December
Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray
Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray has original Telugu Atmos audio
Director: S. S. Rajamouli
Zee5 Streaming has the original Telugu audio and English subtitles (albeit with English portions also overdubbed in Telugu)
Netflix Streaming only has the Hindi dub but better video quality
France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray coming in December
Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray
Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray has original Telugu Atmos audio
Director: Ivan Passer
Radiance 4K Blu-ray, though note its different color grading from the IP-sourced but poorly compressed Fun City Editions US Blu-ray (caps)
Judging from spectrograms at https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23933756&postcount=57, Fun City Editions US Blu-ray appears to have marginally less filtering than Radiance 4K Blu-ray (whose padded 16-bit depth is a non-issue). There are also loudness differences, though it's unclear whether dynamic range also differs. Caveat: need to A/B both tracks to confirm, but no one has posted actual A/B impressions.
Director: Ivan Passer
Radiance 4K Blu-ray, though note its different color grading from the IP-sourced but poorly compressed Fun City Editions US Blu-ray (caps)
Judging from spectrograms at https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23933756&postcount=57, Fun City Editions US Blu-ray appears to have marginally less filtering than Radiance 4K Blu-ray (whose padded 16-bit depth is a non-issue). There are also loudness differences, though it's unclear whether dynamic range also differs. Caveat: need to A/B both tracks to confirm, but no one has posted actual A/B impressions.
Director: Rob Reiner
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray release date September 21 2026
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray no comparison available
Shout! Factory Blu-ray has exclusive extras the Kino Lorber/ Capelight release doesn't
The initial release of the Capelight 4K mediabook had some playback issues with Dolby Vision on Panasonic devices due to an encoding error, the HDR10 apparently works fine, see Capelight’s official response here.
Director: Rob Reiner
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray release date September 21 2026
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray no comparison available
Shout! Factory Blu-ray has exclusive extras the Kino Lorber/ Capelight release doesn't
The initial release of the Capelight 4K mediabook had some playback issues with Dolby Vision on Panasonic devices due to an encoding error, the HDR10 apparently works fine, see Capelight’s official response here.
Director: Rob Reiner
Director: Rob Reiner
Director: Noah Baumbach
Director: Noah Baumbach
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