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Release Date:
26 May 1993 (USA)
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Tagline:
This is the truth. This is what's real.
Plot:
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life. full summary | add synopsis
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2 wins
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2 nominations
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(21 articles)
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One of the best movies in 1993
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tyrin Turner | ... | Caine |
 | Larenz Tate | ... | O-Dog |
| June Kyoto Lu | ... | Grocery Store Woman (as June Kyoko Lu) |
 | Toshi Toda | ... | Grocery Store Man |
 | Samuel L. Jackson | ... | Tat Lawson |
| Anthony Johnson | ... | Tony |
| Brandon Hammond | ... | Five Year Old Caine |
 | Glenn Plummer | ... | Pernell |
 | Reginald Ballard | ... | Clyde |
 | Khandi Alexander | ... | Karen Lawson |
| Eugene Lee | ... | Man #1 |
| James Pickens Jr. | ... | Man #2 (as James Pickins Jr.) |
 | Nancy Cheryll Davis | ... | Teacher (as Nancy Cheryl Davis) |
| Jullian Roy Doster | ... | Anthony |
 | Jada Pinkett Smith | ... | Ronnie (as Jada Pinkett) |
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Rated R for strong violence, drug use and language.; Rated R for strong bloody violence, drug use and pervasive language. (director's cut)
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97 min
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Color (FotoKem)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
New Zealand:R18 |
Iceland:16 |
Canada:16+ (Quebec) |
Canada:R |
South Korea:15 |
Spain:18 |
USA:R (certificate #45390) (director's cut) |
Australia:R |
Germany:16 |
Netherlands:16 |
Norway:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R |
USA:Unrated (director's cut) |
France:-16
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Tupac Shakur was originally attached to play Sharif, but was fired after a physical fight with director Allen Hughes.
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Crew or equipment visible: When Caine gets his car, the camera is reflected in a car window.
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Referenced in Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
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FLY AWAY
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Menace 2 Society is definitely the best "Ghetto Gangsta"-Movie of all time. So powerful, so strong. Perfectly showing the hard life young black people go through in the ghetto. The main-characters are Caine, and O-Dog. Caine, is not the typical gangsta, he had a very hard childhood, with a dealer as father and a junkie as mother, but he doesn't want to live this kind of live and trys to change it. O-Dog is the opposite, a young man who's afraid of nothing and always has trouble with the justice. The movie shows us the road that both, including there friends do in this strange world of drugs, violence and poverty.
The best film the Hugh-Brother ever made, simply a must see, you will love it!!!