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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.
15 June 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 June 1941, The Bronx, New York, USA
8 August 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 January 1962, Houston, Texas, USA
31 October 1947, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
13 January 1982, Carson, California, USA
March 17, 2008
An absorbing, smartly made dramatic encyclopedia of problems and ethics in the black community, 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.
September 27, 2016
Powerful, old-school look at life surrounded by violence.
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.
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 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 26, 2016
It feels like it should be cheesy and manipulative, but the utter sincerity lifts it immeasurable.
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.
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
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.
January 10, 2017
The dialogue is hilarious, loaded, questioning.