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Released
2009 · FILM

Before I Self Destruct

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Runtime
79 min
ActionDrama

Synopsis

A coming-of-age story centers on an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his dream of becoming a basketball player fails to materialize, he ends up working in a supermarket. After his mother is tragically killed by gunfire, Clarence (played by Jackson) becomes consumed by a desire for revenge and turns to a life of crime in order to support his younger brother.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Stephen Franciosa JrShot by Robert D ErasScored by Victor BrunoDesigned by Tamar Gadish

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