A pretty intense movie starring
Ice Cube as Doughboy and
Cuba Gooding Jr. as Tre Styles; two boyhood friends who grow up together in
South Central. The movie is actually extremely good from sociological points of view on many levels. Intermittently between its
demographic draws and
buzz-word type stuff, it manages to talk deeply about
friendship,
parenting,
the hood, and
dealing with problems like
death and
anger. Unfortunately the name of the director alludes me at this moment, although I can clearly picture the black and white distinguished-looking portrait of him they ran in
Vibe.
"Either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in the hood."
update: John Singleton was the director, and this was his first movie.