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Summary:
Director John Singleton's debut chronicles the trials and tribulations of three young African-American males growing up in South Central Los Angeles. When young Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a bright underachiever, begins to show signs of trouble, his struggling professional mother (Angela Basset) sends him to live with his father (Lawrence Fishburne), a hard-nosed, no-nonsense dis... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Cuba Gooding, Jr. - (Tre Styles)
Morris Chestnut - (Ricky Baker)
Ice Cube - (Doughboy)
Angela Bassett - (Reva Styles)
Laurence Fishburne - (Furious Styles)
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Review:
Coming two years after Spike Lee's groundbreaking Do the Right Thing, the first movie by African-American director John Singleton was seen as part of the black film movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was the first mainstream movie to deal with gang violence in America's urban ghettos, and its thoughtful approach helped open th... Continue >>

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