![]() ![]() 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. Palm springs california birthday party marijuana plant marijuana joint underage drinking strangled with a belt reference to marco polo hiking trail baseball cap worn backwards anti semitic slur actor shares last name with character telemarketer threatening telephone call albuquerque new mexico jumping off a roof diving board … public phone liquor store climbing out a window juvenile delinquency child abduction fedora woman slaps a man digging a grave hit with a shovel underage sex breaking a window man punching a woman 15 year old weightlifting german shepherd film crew true crime playing pool blindfolded defecation bong moving pipe smoking reckless driving raised middle finger thrown through a window billiards convenience store feud burglary rap music attorney duct tape over mouth home movie skateboard kicked in the stomach scene during opening credits mobster vandalism woman with glasses nipples visible through clothing breaking and entering loss of virginity what happened to epilogue answering machine pot smoking child murder uzi twenty something garage death of son shot in the arm witness death of child split screen debt fugitive pay phone mini skirt fired from the job character repeating someone else's dialogue suburb karate talking to the camera racial slur van double cross scantily clad female nonlinear timeline suicide attempt drug dealer montage california gang bound and gagged gay slur menage a trois shot in the back marijuana animal in title birthday arrest written by director watching tv punched in the face slow motion scene shotgun face slap shot in the chest fistfight shot to death cell phone topless female nudity based on true story pistol leg spreading party dancing cigarette smoking bare chested male independent film music video sex scene dog violence interview threesome (See All) Hispanic american stepmother stepson relationship employer employee relationship police detective lust jewish lawyer policeman teenage boy teenage girl brother brother relationship tattoo boyfriend girlfriend relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship … mother son relationship family relationships (See All) Motel sex motel police car swimming pool restaurant bar Greed homophobia tragedy robbery drunkenness drinking money kidnapping murder friendship revenge death Group think, amorality, and fear of prison assert a hold on the pack. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control. ![]() Johnny assigns his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder, and they develop a brotherly friendship. Zach's okay with it, figuring his brother will pay the debt soon. On impulse, John … ny and a couple pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother, Zach. ![]() Johnny Truelove, drug dealer and son of a underworld figure, threatens Jake Mazursky, an explosive head case who owes Johnny money Jake responds by breaking into Johnny's house. Middle-class kids, in their 20s, talk trash, wave guns, hang out in a pack. I liked the movie, because it's an honest, dramatic and sometimes funny look at small time crime-rs.1999, Claremont, California. But besides them you also have Ben Foster, who some might know form his TV Work, others from his great job in the movie Hostage, but most will recognise as that Angel in X-Men 3! I could name the other young actors too, whom did all a great job in this movie, but you can also read their names on the IMDb list for the movie. You can't obviously forget about Sharon Stone (she's BTW in the one scene I don't like at all, because the scene is to long and it looks like Sharon made the director/editor lengthen that scene, just to show off. Not De Niro/Pacino good, but good! :o) He is the first recognizable name of the young actors of course. which means more movies with him), but I do think that he is good. I still can't say for sure if he acted in this one or if it's just an expansion of his personality (only time will tell. I saw Edison too, but he had Morgan Freeman and others by his side. I mean Justin Timberlake as an actor? I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who had/has prejudices about that. ![]()
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