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South Central (1992)
Released By: Warner Home Video   Rating: R   In Theaters: N/A
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Studio: Warner Home Video
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steve Anderson
Language: English
Official Website: N/A
Theatrical Release: N/A
Home Video Release: N/A
Cast: Carl Lumbly, Christian Coleman, Glenn Plummer
Published ID: 3559
UPC: 085391259428,
Plot: Glenn Plummer delivers a powerful performance in this angry film based on {~Crips}, a novel written by South Central Los Angeles high school teacher Donald Baker, and directed by Steve Anderson, who served time in prison. Plummer plays Bobby, a young black man trapped in a self-perpetuating cycle of hatred, incarceration, and bloodshed. On his first day out of prison, he comes back to the streets of South Central LA and the only family he knows --the gang. He finds that his best friend Ray-Ray (Byron Keith Minns) is now the leader of the Deuces. Ray-Ray, with plenty of sweet talk, easily talks Bobby into committing a murder, killing a rival gang leader. But before the killing Bobby finds that his girlfriend Carole (LaRita Shelby) has given birth to his son. He also sees that she is becoming too dependent on her drug supply. After the killing, Bobby is hauled back into jail for a ten-year stretch. In jail, Bobby undergoes a transformation. Introduced to the Muslim community and mentored by an older convict named Ali (Carl Lumbly), Bobby begins to read W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King. He learns about self-respect and how gangs use people like him. When he is once again released from prison, Bobby is a new man. But South Central has gone from bad to worse. Carole, now completely addicted to cocaine, works as a hooker to support her habit. He also discovers that Ray-Ray has recruited his 10-year-old son Jimmie (Christian Coleman) as a junior gang member, stealing car stereos. Jimmie looks upon Ray-Ray as a role model and Bobbie must find a way to save his child from the violent and doomed future of a gang member. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
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HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAH
Added 9/12/2009
Great movie, it shows with a little help and hope we can all change for the good!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Great Movie - Not Just About Gangs
Added 1/31/2009
I saw this movie years ago and what resonated with me more than anything was the portrayal of a man changing. When I saw the DVD for sale a while back, I just had to buy it for my clients. I use this movie as a tool for open discussion in cognitive groups as well as parenting groups. While the acting wouldn't be considered Oscar-worthy and some of the dialogue is sophmoric, the message of the movie far outweighs its flaws. Inspirational, powerful, and sometimes thrilling!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Great Movie
Added 4/2/2007
If you like movies like boyz in the hood, meance 2 society then you going to like south central
0 out of 1 people found this helpful.
Worth watching.
Added 8/5/2006
...but it makes me sad the level of truth behind it. What makes me sadder is that this kind of mentality still exists today. I would definitely rank this one up with the likes of Boys in The Hood and New Jack City.
0 out of 1 people found this helpful.
Boys drop hoods
Added 6/4/2006
One of the overlooked gang movies, with exceptional realism against the same backdrop as "Boyz n Hood," the undeserved Hollywood-styled movie. "South Central," on the other hand, gets more from the cast and B-movie economics than "Hood." The director and writer narrow the aim and score more for doing so, in my opinion. Of those who play at violence, the plot centers on one who owns up to his bad ways and pays the price. Gang warfare, the soup de jour of Hollywood, makes too much money off bad languange and violence. This B-movie responsibly shows the price for dead-end lifestyles that embrace drugs and violence as the only alternatives. Gang warfare is as obsolete today as dueling in the 16th Century. This is one movie that asks its youth to take responsibilty,reform themselves through self-education,not to waste their freedom that comes with deadly consequences.
2 out of 4 people found this helpful.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAH
Added 9/12/2009
Great movie, it shows with a little help and hope we can all change for the good!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Great Movie - Not Just About Gangs
Added 1/31/2009
I saw this movie years ago and what resonated with me more than anything was the portrayal of a man changing. When I saw the DVD for sale a while back, I just had to buy it for my clients. I use this movie as a tool for open discussion in cognitive groups as well as parenting groups. While the acting wouldn't be considered Oscar-worthy and some of the dialogue is sophmoric, the message of the movie far outweighs its flaws. Inspirational, powerful, and sometimes thrilling!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Great Movie
Added 4/2/2007
If you like movies like boyz in the hood, meance 2 society then you going to like south central
0 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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