Carjacking in Popular Culture
- Video games such as Grand Theft Auto, The Godfather: The Game, Driver, Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and Scarface: The World Is Yours feature carjacking as part of the gameplay which has attracted criticism from public figures.
- The South African movie Tsotsi features a carjacking as the main plot element.
- In the Family Guy episode "Road to Rupert", Stewie and Brian carjack a man so they can get back to Rhode Island.
- Larry Niven's short story "The Deadlier Weapon" features a carjacking.
- Crash is based on a real carjacking.
- Hijack Stories (2000 film) is a film about South African township crime, of which the main theme is carjacking. One of the main characters robs 10 cars and parks them in front of a police station.
- Hawaii Five-0 in Episode 16 Detective Dany's ex-Wife's gets carjacked.
- In the 2002 film Spider-Man, a petty criminal named Dennis Carradine shoots Uncle Ben and steals the car. The theft and death of Uncle Ben is the impetus for Peter Parker to become Spider-Man.
- A 2011 American movie called Carjacked in which a single mom and her child are carjacked by a bank robber.
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