Player Hating: A Love Story

Player Hating: A Love Story is a 2010 documentary film about Brooklyn rapper Half a Mill, written and directed by Maggie Hadleigh-West.

Player Hating: A Love Story
Directed byMaggie Hadleigh-West
Written byMaggie Hadleigh-West
Produced byMaggie Hadleigh-West
StarringHalf a Mill
CinematographyEmmanual Bastien
Kristen Eccker
Steve McCauley
Edited byKim Connell
Laurie MacMillan
Music byHalf a Mill
Release date
  • June 2010 (2010-06) (Sheffield DocFest)
Running time
95 mins
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Premise

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The documentary follows Half a Mill and his Brooklyn crew, The Godfia Criminals, as they record and struggle to launch Milíon, Half a Mill's latest album. Player Hating explores the connections of poverty, alienation, gangs, and violence in the lives of young "thugs".

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