Boyz N the Hood (1991)

 

Release date: July 12, 1991

Director: John Singleton 

Writer(s): John Singleton

Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut

Estimated Budget: $6 million

U.S. Box office: $57.5 million

 

Tre (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is sent to live with his father, Furious Styles (Laurence Fishburne), in tough South Central Los Angeles. Although his hard-nosed father instills proper values and respect in him, and his devout girlfriend Brandi (Nia Long) teaches him about faith, Tre's friends Doughboy (Ice Cube) and Ricky (Morris Chestnut) don't have the same kind of support and are drawn into the neighborhood's booming drug and gang culture, with increasingly tragic results.

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