John Singleton’s groundbreaking urban coming-of-age drama, Boys in the neighborhood, Turning 30 this July. At the age of 24 when writing and directing, Singleton became the youngest filmmaker in history to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director, two years ahead of the great Orson Welles. Singleton also won Best Original Screenplay for the film.
With powerful performances, lovable characters, a compelling story and a warning message about the escalating street violence that has claimed the lives of so many young people, Chubby boy Many people imitated, but never completely copied.
South Central Region (1992)
Adapted from the 1987 novel lame by Donald Baker, south central is the uplifting story of a reformed criminal who, when released from prison, vows to teach his son right and wrong.
Written and directed by Stephen Milburn Anderson, the film follows the moral development of Bobby (Glenn Plummer), a disabled Hoover Street gang member sent to prison for violating a pardon. Ten years later, Bobby was rehabilitated for his prison-born son Johnny. After his release, Bobby becomes a positive role model for Jimmy, while Jimmy goes down the wrong path.
Cooley High School (1975)
Even though it was done twenty years ago Hood, Cooley High School is a wonderful coming-of-age story about Prech (Green Turman) and Cochise (Laurence Hilton-Jacobs), two lighthearted, fun high school students in Chicago in 1964. Best friends.
Preach, an aspiring playwright, and Cochise, a coveted basketball star, both have bright futures ahead of them. But when they are accused of stealing a Cadillac, their lives are changed forever by the criminal scandal to their reputation. The skillful combination of comedy and drama is second to none.
Clock (1995)
Despite Spike Lee’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story, crooksit’s worth mentioning that his next movie, the guard, be a more valuable companion Chubby boy.
Strike (Mekhi Phifer) is a kind-hearted young drug dealer with a poetic soul, but is stuck in the Brooklyn project he grew up in. Strike survives the day in violent situations, and his life is turned upside down when he gets involved in a murder he didn’t commit.
Fresh (1994)
by bolakiakin fresh is a character-driven crime story about a 12-year-old boy (Sean Nelson) who uses his wits and wisdom to rescue him and his drug addict sister Nicole (N’) Bushe Wright) from a spiral of violence, living in poverty. and out of downtown Brooklyn.
Fed up with being a teenage drug dealer, Fresh escapes a deadlocked lifestyle by devoting his time and energy to the game of chess, played by his drunken father Sam ( Samuel LL Jackson) taught him amusingly. Fresh devised three steps to outsmart a local drug dealer with ties to Nichole.
Paint (2015)
When it comes to stories about coming of age in urban areas, writer/director Rick Famuyiwa likes to challenge stereotypes with his film’s easy-going humor.exist coat, Malcolm (Shameik Moore) accepts his eccentric side despite growing up in a rough neighborhood in Inglewood, California.
Malcolm, along with friends and punk rock bandmates Gibb (Tony Revolori) and Diggy (Kilsey Clemons), participate in a drug trafficking scheme to reach him. Gain influence among famous gangsters. After a lifetime of adventure, Malcolm uses his brilliant intelligence to distinguish right from wrong.
The Kid (2001)
while by John Singleton karma And University education may include here, his 2001 film, boy, It’s the most worthwhile story to watch together Chubby boy.
Tyrese Gibson plays Jody, an unemployed 20-year-old single father living with his mother in gang-ridden South Central Los Angeles. Immature and irresponsible Jody is forced to grow up and raise his two children from different mothers, and at the same time decide the lover he wants to spend the rest of his life with.
New Jack City (1991)
new jack city Wesley Snipes plays Nino Brown, the biggest and most feared drug dealer in New York’s Harlem during the city’s crack drug epidemic of the mid-1980s. Along with his cash brother Gee Money (Allen Payne) , Nino is the target of undercover cop Scotty Appleton (Ice-T).
The more Scottie operates undercover as a drug dealer, the more he blurs the line between hero and villain and loses himself in the process. Anti-drug information and Chubby boyReject gang violence.
Forest (1999)
In many ways, Rick Famuyiwa wood reverse side of description Chubby boy. close together in South Central Los Angeles, wood (named for Inglewood, California) adopts a more pleasant and gentle approach to adult samples.
As the wedding approaches, Roland (Taye Diggs) retreats. To help ease his nerves, he and his two best friends, Mike (Omar Epps) and Slim (Richard T. Jones), reminisce about growing up at The Wood in the 80s. , attend their first school dance, come face to face with their first love, and avoid the violent pitfalls of their neighborhood.
Juice (1992)
Omar Epps at juiceA visceral tale of ambition and betrayal between four close friends set in early 1990s Harlem.
Q (Epps), Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Steel (Jermain Hopkins) and Raheem (Khalil Kain) skip school all day to kill time and have fun at the playground, record store, billiard room, and other places. near. When the Bishops of the Quartet faced a severe test of loyalty when they proposed robbing a liquor store to influence the community, it ended with a warning message that went through many generation.
Threats Association II (1993)
In their feature film debut, Albert and Alan Hughes wrote, directed, and produced Threat Association IIA clear, powerful, eye-opening tale of gang violence in Watts, California.
The film revolves around Kane Lawson (Tylin Turner), a teenage con man who grew up surrounded by violent drug dealers and gang members. After a devastating event, Kane tries to escape this lifestyle, going straight and narrow. However, the life he was used to was harder to let go of than he imagined.