Once upon a time in South Central L.A... It ain't no fairy tale.
In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son Tre to be a decent person. Tre's friends, on the other hand, have little regard for the law and drag the entire neighborhood into a street war...
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| Original title | Boyz n the Hood |
|---|---|
| Tagline | Once upon a time in South Central L.A... It ain't no fairy tale. |
| Release date | Jul 12, 1991 |
| Runtime | 112 min |
| Content rating | R |
| Certification region | US |
| TMDb rating | 7.6 |
| Director | John Singleton |
| Writers | John Singleton |
| Production | Columbia Pictures |
| Budget | $6,500,000 |
| Revenue | $57,504,069 |
| Language | en |
| Country | US |
| IMDb | tt0101507 |
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John Singleton really isn't my thing. I mean, the movie came out in '91 but didn't get much exposure out in the country where I grew up until it was on HBO. However "Poetic Justice" DID and when I finally came around to watching "Boyz n the Hood" I had extremely low expectations. I honestly thought it was going to be as absolutely pointless as "Poetic Justice" was. And, yeah, I did kind of like "Higher Learning," which I also saw before this, but I still kind of feel that he was pointing the finger at white people...
Read full reviewRick, it's the Nineties. Can't afford to be afraid of our own people anymore, man. 1991 "One out of every twenty-one Black American males will be murdered in their lifetime" "Most will die at the hands of another Black male" "Increase The Peace" is the closing message of John Singleton's powerful, intelligent and affecting call for calm in South Central Los Angeles. Often mistakenly presumed by those who haven't seen it to be a film that glamorises violence, Singleton's debut film takes us into South Central and h...
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