Trivia for
Friday (1995) More at IMDbPro »

• Mr. Jones, a dogcatcher by trade, watches Man's Best Friend (1993), a movie about a genetically engineered dog that becomes homicidal.
  
  
• Director Cameo: [F. Gary Gray] The man mopping the floor in the store.
  
  
• The neighborhood where the film takes place is the same street where the film's director, F. Gary Gray, grew up in South Central, Los Angeles. Principal houses that were used for filming were houses of old friends of the director. The scene where Deebo punches Red into the air is the house that F. Gary Gray grew up in.
  
  
• The movie was filmed in 126th Street between Halldale and Normandie in South Los Angeles, California.
  
  
• In the flashback scene where Smokey is in the car with Hector and his friend, a man can be seen sitting on a block wall in the background. The man was a resident of the neighborhood who wanted to be difficult towards the production staff, knowing they couldn't tell him what to do on his own property. He remained in the shot despite offers from the staff which included compensation or a walk-on role in the film.
  
  
• The movie was filmed in 20 days.
  
  
• The clothes that Ice Cube wears in the first scene of this movie are exactly the same as the ones that his character wore in the final scene of Boyz n the Hood (1991).
  
  
• The license plate on Smokey's car is "FCK IT".
  
  
• It's revealed in deleted scenes that Craig's dad is eating grapes at the beginning of the movie, and that Smokey is eating a sugar sandwich while they're high and watching music videos.
  
  

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