Overall Rating:  4.25 out of 5, including 2 reviews
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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 unambitious drug 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 learns are put to the ultimate test when tragedy strikes close to home, and violence seems like the only recourse.
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Features:
| Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Theatrical Trailer | Video:
| | Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC]
SPANISH: Dolby Digital Surround
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Surround
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| | English, Spanish, French
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| Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Production Year: 1991
Release Date: 7/14/1998
Length: 112 mins
Rating: R
Chapters: 28
| Packaging: Keep Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: DS-SL
Item Code: 50819
UPC Code: 043396508194
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Overall Rating: 4.25 out of 5, including 2 reviews
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SELF-DESTRUCTION - 4 out of 5 (1/11/1999)
It's pretty hard to present a movie with political or social ambitions which doesn't become boring after a while. BOYZ IN THE HOOD tries to avoid this trap but not entirely. The character, played by Lawrence Fishburne, has the difficult task to teach the audience (coloured and non-coloured) the philosophy of the director, John Singleton.
And these moments of morals are boring, if not ridiculous.
I understand that John Singleton, in order to have his movie distributed in America and worl
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BOYZ IN THE HOOD - 4.5 out of 5 (10/25/1998)
BOYZ IN THE HOOD is too much like reality. This DVD
is not entertaining, but rather educational. What
lives are lived in South Central Los Angeles? It
might be hard for you to remember, but just 8 short
years ago there was anarchy in the inner cities of
America.
This is Cuba Gooding Jr. before his Jerry Maguire,
As Good As It Gets and What Dream May Come fame.
The screenplay is intelligently crafted into a
masterpiece that makes the point of reminding us
that not everyone is
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