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...Boyz In the Hood with Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris chestnut and Larry Fishburne...
...Boyz In the Hood with Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut and Larry Fishburne...
...most of the summer, a season that should provide a vacation from the heavy hand of pedagogy, moviegoers have been pummeled with do-gooder didacticism. Calves are good (City Slickers). So are dogs (101 Dalmatians). Men, of course, are baaad (Terminator 2, Thelma & Louise), unless they are ghetto fathers (Boyz N the Hood), in which case women are bad. Physicians need remedial courses in niceness (The Doctor, Doc Hollywood). And lawyers, should they care to join the human race, need a shot in the head (Regarding Henry). Some summer! Whether the star was Arnold Schwarzenegger or Harrison Ford, you couldn...
...young, gifted and black in America today is to live poised on a cruelly honed knife-edge. There are doubtless more opportunities than ever for bright, ambitious kids to escape the ghetto. But the chances of being wasted by random violence have also increased. In his remarkable debut film, BOYZ N THE HOOD (as in neighborhood), writer-director John Singleton, 23, maps gang-ridden South Central Los Angeles with a cartographer's cool realism. But what gives powerful resonance to his film -- whose opening was accompanied by shootings in theaters across the U.S. that left at least one dead...
...knew I had to learn how to write, so I did." And well. Singleton won several writing awards at the film school of the University of Southern California. After his graduation, Columbia Pictures quickly signed him up for a three-year deal and gave him $7 million to direct Boyz N the Hood. Like his fellow young black directors, he knew what he wanted to do with the opportunity. "If you make a film," he says, "you have a responsibility to say something socially relevant...