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Synopsis: John Singleton's portrayal of social problems in inner-city Los Angeles takes the form of a tale of three friends growing up together 'in the 'hood.' Half-brothers Doughboy and Ricky Baker are foils for each other's personality, presenting very different approaches to the tough lives they face. Ricky is the 'All-American' athlete, looking to win a football scholarship to USC and seeks salvation through sports, while 'Dough' succumbs to the violence, alcohol, and crime surrounding him in his environment, but maintains a strong sense of pride and code of honor. Between these two is their friend Tre, who is lucky to have a father, 'Furious' Styles, to teach him to have the strength of character to do what is right and to always take responsibility for his actions.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): John Singleton
Production: Columbia Pictures
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
R
Year:
1991
112 min
7,358 Views


Go on in the house, Tre. Go on.

- Something wrong?

- Something wrong? Yeah.

It's just too bad you

don't know what it is...

...brother.

Ice-cream man!

Wait up!

What's up?

You ain't sh*t.

You just like your daddy.

You don't do sh*t and you never

gonna amount to sh*t.

All you ever do around here

is eat, sleep and sh*t.

Look at this place. Way y'all act,

y'all must think I'm the maid.

- Is that it? I gotta go.

- Hell, no, it ain't it!

It ain't it till I say

it's it, damn it!

Cigarette.

Don't get smart with me, I'll knock

your ass in the middle of next week.

Where you going, you little

fat f***? You ain't got a job.

Who's that little f***er on my porch?

Oh, you're Furious' little boy, huh?

Boy, you look more and more

like your daddy every day.

So tell me something.

How come he don't play cards

with us no more?

I don't know.

I know he don't think

he's better than us.

Too busy shooting at people.

I heard what happened there

the other night.

He still got that same girlfriend?

Excuse me, Mama.

- Why do you always play football?

- Because that's what I want to do.

That's right.

I heard Furious shot

at somebody last night.

- He get him?

- No.

Who is that?

That's my lady, homie.

Her name's Brandi.

She ain't your woman. She's my woman.

- How, when she my lady?

- She's my wife.

I stick my ding-a-ling in her

every night, so that makes her mine.

Get your ass in here and quit

looking at them boys!

Punk!

F*ggot!

Get off me, with your big

Get off!

Man, forget that girl.

Come on, let's go see Chris.

- Where's my ball?

- Man, don't bring that ball.

Me and my daddy going fishing.

We ain't gonna stay long.

- Where's he live?

- He don't live far.

Rick, why you have to bring that ball?

I ain't saying nothing if it get took.

Y'all want to see a dead body?

Yeah.

Tre's daddy blasted

at somebody last night.

Really? What kind of gun

your daddy got?

I think it's a 357 Magnum.

Really? I got a deuce-deuce.

My brother gave it to me

before he went to jail.

I got it under my bed. Want to see?

It's loaded too.

It's up in here.

Damn!

It smell like a dog died.

- Look like Freddy Krueger got him.

- He stink.

That's how they smell after a while.

I wonder why it take them people

so long to pick him up.

Yo, man, I ain't going up in there.

- Oh, man.

- Damn, it's stinky in this motherf***er!

- Hey, throw the ball.

- You ain't gonna see it again.

Don't you know this is a dead body?

Yeah, I know that sh*t!

He ain't bothering you,

so don't f*** with him!

Throw the ball, little man.

I ain't gonna take it.

Chris, tell him I ain't

gonna take his ball.

I got enough money to buy me

a hundred balls. Sh*t!

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John Singleton

John Daniel Singleton (born January 6, 1968) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for directing Boyz n the Hood. For the film, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming the first African American and youngest person to have ever been nominated for the award. Singleton is a native of South Los Angeles and many of his early films, such as Poetic Justice (1993), Higher Learning (1995), and Baby Boy (2001), consider the implications of inner-city violence. Some of his other films include dramas such as Rosewood (1997) in addition to action films such as Shaft (2000), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), and Four Brothers (2005). more…

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