South Central (1992)

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hang with yor homeys. rule the night. bobby johnson bas been there and back. he knows firsthand the ways of an l.a. gang - and been jailed for it. but he has won his freedom and faces a new door-die urgency: reclaim his 10-year-old son from the mean streets' cycle of hate and death.
an oliver stone presentation based on crips, donald bakeer's bestseller about gang life, south central is "even more emotionally stirring than boyz n the hood. the climax is startlingly powerful" (owen gleiberman, entertainment weekly). glenn plummer (menace 2 society, strange days) is bobby, whose hard life leads to hard time - and a determination to turn it all around, inspired by a fellow convict (carl lumbly of everybody's all-american).