Steve Hassenpflug is the reason this lands

Steve Hassenpflug was the thing I kept watching in Straight Outta Compton (2015). There is a nice lived-in quality to it, nothing too forced. I bought the character pretty quickly, which is not always easy in this kind of film. A couple of tiny timing choices really stuck with me. The small reactions do a lot of the heavy lifting. It is the kind of performance that quietly makes the movie sturdier. It is less about one scene and more about the overall aftertaste.