She assures Tre he will be permitted to return to her one day. Concerned about Tre's future and wanting him to mature, Reva sends him to live in Crenshaw with his father, Jason 'Furious' Styles, from whom she hopes Tre will learn valuable life lessons. After Tre gets into an altercation at school, his teacher informs Reva that he has a volatile temper and lacks respect for authority, despite his high intelligence in class. Ten-year-old Tre Styles lives with his mother Reva, in Inglewood, near Los Angeles International Airport. In 2002, the United States Library of Congress deemed it 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant' and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. It grossed $57.5 million in North America, and was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the 64th Academy Awards, making Singleton the youngest person and the first African-American to be nominated for Best Director. The film became a critical and commercial success, praised for its emotional weight, acting, and writing. The film is notable for featuring breakout roles for Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, and Nia Long.īoyz n the Hood premiered in Los Angeles on July 2, 1991, and was theatrically released in the United States ten days later. Principal photography began in September 1990 and was filmed on location from October to November 1990. During writing, he drew inspiration from his own life and from the lives of people he knew and insisted he direct the project. Singleton initially developed the film as a requirement for application to film school in 1986 and sold the script to Columbia Pictures upon graduation in 1990. The film's title is a double entendre a play on the term boyhood and a reference to the 1987 Eazy-E rap song of the same name, written by Ice Cube.

Boyz n the Hood follows Tre Styles (Gooding Jr.), who is sent to live with his father Furious Styles (Fishburne) in South Central Los Angeles, surrounded by the neighborhood's booming gang culture.

It stars Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne, Nia Long, Regina King, and Angela Bassett.

Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American hood crime drama film written and directed by John Singleton in his feature directorial debut.

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