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Boyz N The Hood
The movie explores the life of kids from the slums who don't have the same kind of support and are drawn into the neighborhood's booming drug and gang culture, with increasingly tragic results.
6 January 1968, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 June 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
1980
17 July 1963, California, USA
21 January 1980, Los Angeles County, California, USA
8 June 1941, The Bronx, New York, USA
25 November 1971, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
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.
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
Singleton sometimes displays his youthful inexperience in melodramatic emphasis and rhetorical flourishes, but he has created a deeply troubling film about responsibility.
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.
March 17, 2008
An absorbing, smartly made dramatic encyclopedia of problems and ethics in the black community, 1991.
October 26, 2016
It feels like it should be cheesy and manipulative, but the utter sincerity lifts it immeasurable.
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.
January 10, 2017
The dialogue is hilarious, loaded, questioning.
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.
