Boyz N The Hood
The teen hood drama starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Larry Fishburne, Ice Cube and Morris Chestnut follows life of teenagers raised in the ghetto of LA.
17 November 1979, California, USA
31 October 1947, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
30 July 1961, Augusta, Georgia, USA
1980
21 January 1980, Los Angeles County, California, USA
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4 August 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 June 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
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13 January 1982, Carson, California, USA
15 November 1930, New York City, New York, USA
2 January 1968, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
24 December 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 August 1980, California, USA
4 August 1968, Illinois, USA
15 January 1971, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
25 November 1971, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
21 June 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 July 1963, California, USA
28 January 1962, Houston, Texas, USA
30 October 1970, Brooklyn, New York, USA
October 26, 2016
It feels like it should be cheesy and manipulative, but the utter sincerity lifts it immeasurable.September 27, 2016
Powerful, old-school look at life surrounded by violence.October 28, 2016
It seems as box-fresh as a pair of white high-tops and as powerful and funny today as it was in 1991.August 25, 2008
Even in its warmest moments, there is a fearful chill in this hood's air. And on the hearts of its boyz.January 10, 2017
The dialogue is hilarious, loaded, questioning.August 18, 2008
The violence in Boyz N the Hood is neither gratuitous nor melodramatic; its aftermath is shattering. Singleton's powerhouse movie has the impact of a stun gun.August 01, 2016
Like a jazz ensemble, Singleton and his actors slowly involve us in an almost sensual melange of moods, images and situations that take us inside the ghetto in a way mainstream films almost never do.October 27, 2016
Boyz N the Hood is a passionate drama shot with fluency and style, a study of what amounts to life during wartime, with people grimly used to gunfire and helicopters thudding overhead.August 01, 2016
Singleton sometimes displays his youthful inexperience in melodramatic emphasis and rhetorical flourishes, but he has created a deeply troubling film about responsibility.March 17, 2008
An absorbing, smartly made dramatic encyclopedia of problems and ethics in the black community, 1991.August 01, 2016
It's always risky to proclaim a new force in film based upon just one film, but Boyz N the Hood is good enough to suggest that John Singleton is going to be a major player for a long time.