Boyz 'N The Hood (1991)

Director:	John Singleton
Actors:	Laurence Fishburne, Nia Long, Angela Bassett, Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, Tyra Ferrell, Lexie Bigham, Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II

Boyz N The Hood is the critically acclaimed story about three friends growing up in a South Central Los Angeles neighborhood, and of street life where friendship, pain, danger and love combine to form reality. "The Hood" is a place where drive-by shootings and unemployment are rampant. But it is also a place where harmony co-exists with adversity, especially for the three young men growing up there: Doughboy (Ice Cube), an unambitiousdrug dealer; his brother Ricky (Morris Chestnut), a college-bound teenage father, and Ricky's best friend, Tre (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), who aspires to a brighter future beyond the "The Hood." In a world where a trip to the store can end in death, the friends have diverse reactions to their bleak surroundings. Tre's resolve is strengthened by a strong father (Larry Fishburne) who keeps him on the right track. But the lessons Tre learnsare put to the ultimate test when tragedy strikes close to home, and violence seems like the only recourse. This powerful portrait of black urban America is "a film of enormous relevance and importance" --Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES.