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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767811071
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767811070
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 14, 1998
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 3422
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: July 12, 1991
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John Singleton, at the age of 23, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his debut film, Boyz N the Hood. The film stars Laurence Fishburne, Angela Basset, Ice Cube, and Academy Award-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. in his first starring role in a feature film. Gooding plays Tre Styles, a teenager growing up in South Central Los Angeles. His father, Furious (Fishburne), is divorced and living away from Tre and his mother (Basset), but he's still involved in Tre's upbringing, teaching him the values of right and wrong and responsibility. Meanwhile, Tre's childhood buddies Ricky (Morris Chestnut) and Doughboy (Ice Cube) are living their lives in terms of the epidemic of violence and poverty that has plagued their neighborhood. Ricky, a talented football player, strives to get a full athletic scholarship to college. If only his SAT scores were higher. Doughboy lives a life full of crime but still remains true to his friends. The obstacles that these three young men come across result in dire consequences, devastatingly avoidable and inevitable at the same time. Boyz N the Hood is a landmark film beyond its commercial success, presenting a portrait of South Central in the late '80s and early '90s as painted by Singleton (who grew up in that neighborhood), achieving accuracy and dramatic resonance in this story of at-risk youth. --Shannon Gee
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Rating:  - Boyd N the Hood
Boyz N in the Hood is one of my favorite all time movies, when I saw how
cheap the price is on Amazon I ordered it. John Singleton did a wonderful
job with this movie. I love all the actors and actresses in the movie,
they were so believable playing their parts. Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Ice
Cube really delivered. I would highly recommend this movie!!!
Rating:  - Honest and riveting; not what I expected at all...
I was blown away by `Boyz `N the Hood' mainly because I really wasn't expecting anything particularly smart. I mean, in all honesty can you say that the films title or descriptions would ever lead you to believe it would have some validity? It does though, have a lot of validity. Not only is it a well acted (for the most part) film but it is a really socially important film about race relations both with those outside your race, but more importantly with those within your race. Exposing the hatred and senseless violence that pollutes certain communities, `Boyz N' the Hood' really rises above most films of this nature (take that Spike Lee) and creates a film that is emotionally investing and in the end one that is respectably sincere.
The film tells the story of young Tre Styles who goes to live with his father Furious after one school screw-up too many sends his mother over the edge. Growing up in a neighborhood less than admirable, Tre learns a lot from his father's guiding hand about bettering himself and not becoming what his friends were destined to become. As he grows up alongside brothers Ricky and Doughboy, Tre is able to see how having a father has really kept him separate from his friends and has helped create a respectable heart in him. His views on women and drugs and gang violence differ drastically from that of his close friends for they had no strong arm to guide them, to take care of them and thus mold them into better people.
The film flows almost ... Read More
Rating: - Which Path Would You Take?
Boyz N The Hood is considered by many as the definitive "Hood" movie and is even more astounding to learn that Writer & Director John Singleton was only 23 when this was released. The greatest aspect of this movie is that it's a film about acceptance when focusing around the main character Tré. He's a representative for those of us who have all told lies about our lives simply to fit in with the crowd. We can all relate to the Tré character which is what is easily one of the main reasons for this films popularity.
Set in South Central L.A. "Boyz N The Hood" focuses around three friends with very different aspirations in life.
"Doughboy" played by Ice Cube is a man who's become the typical kid growing up in the hood and succumbed to the Drink, Drugs and crime.
"Ricky Baker" played by Morris Chestnut is the all American athlete who's looking to win a sports scholarship to USC and make something of his life.
"Tré Styles" played by Cube Gooding Jr. is the kid in the middle being pulled by both sides. Tré is lucky enough to have a father who's showing him to do what is right and always take responsibility for his actions.
In this film, while in the hood with his old school friends, Tré is seriously confused about where his life is going. Although his father is teaching him about the right way to live his life, Tré is being pulled by "Doughboy" to follow the hood lifestyle which is glorified by "Doughboys" code of honour. This is ... Read More
Rating: - RIICCKKYY!!!!!!
i just recently watched this movie again for the first time in years and enjoyed it all over again.
Rating:  - I must have missed something?
Well everybody told me to watch this movie, so I did. I live in the Netherlands, Europe so you know. I have been to compton once by mistake and south-central by choice. So if you do not like my review blame it on the fact that I am European and I do not know what I am talking about.
The movie overall strikes me as totally non realistic with flying helicopters and firing smg's all the time. Sure it is not the best neighbourhood to live in, but come on it is not a warzone.
The story is told already like a thousand times. A good kid winds up in a bad neighbourhood. He almost goes on the criminal path but... rappapa big surprise surprise he does not he goes to college and so does his his girl. His friend also understand this choice after shooting 3 people in cold blood.
In all its to much over the top for me. I think the movie tries to be a drama but for me it is more like a parody on itsself. The key message being having a good parent the father in this case will avoid getting youre kid being a gangster. So this movie unwillingly blames the black community for their own gangsters. They try to blame it on "the man" in the part where his father takes his son to compton and explaines how the system works. Well you must be a complete moron to believe the theory that the system wants to get drugs to the afro american community so they can kill themselves. The point in all bad neighbourhoods is poverty and that little o so important message is being missed here! Such ... Read More
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