While Tre’s father is a wise, peaceful man, he can’t help but to show Tre the on-going violence after a robber breaks into their house in the middle of the night. His mother, very unhappy, sends him to live with his father across town. The film opens with a young Tre in school, where he gets into a fight with a classmate. However, with all this going on- screen, the message is really what’s buried in the dialogue, rather than the action. The story follows main characters Tre (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), Tre’s dad, Jason (Laurence Fishburne), Doughboy (Ice Cube), and Ricky (Morris Chestnut) on how the boys grow up despite experiencing gang violence, drug use, and poverty. Twenty-nine years ago, Singleton set out to make a film that would tell the story of African American teens growing up in South Central Los Angeles. John Singleton released his worldwide sensation Boyz n the Hood back in 1991, but the message he sends is still relevant today.
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