South Central
During a 10-year sentence for murdering the leader of a rival South Central Los Angeles gang, Bobby Johnson finds religion and rehabilitation with the help of Muslim inmate Ali. Upon his release, Bobby returns home to find that his young son, Jimmie, has joined the Deuces, his old crew. Tensions rise as Bobby struggles to convince Jimmie to leave the gang that was his only family during the painful years his absent father spent behind bars.
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- Cast：
- Glenn Plummer , Byron Minns , Lexie Bigham , Vincent Craig Dupree , LaRita Shelby , Carl Lumbly , Vickilyn Reynolds
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Reviews
A Disappointing Continuation
It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.
This movie was filmed around the time of the Rodney King riots that ripped South Central Los Angeles. Let's face it, the heart and soul of Los Angeles isn't Hollywood. It's the people like in this movie who try to make living, earnestly, honestly, and respectively. Sadly, this film is still realistic to the plight of urban problems. I spent a lot of time in one of the great urban cities of the East Coast and the problems of poverty, the lure of leading drug dealing lives is real and tempting, domestic violence, child abuse, gangs, etc. still exist and will exist much to the attempts of prevention or society ignoring their presence. Anyway, this film is truly about the heart and soul of a city of ten million Angelenos and the father's attempt to save his son from a life of crime, violence, death, and drugs in the city. It's not an easy battle.
We need more positive movies like south central by - ladygee627 7 minutes ago (Mon Mar 28 2005 10:34:50) We need more positive movies like south central. The part of Ali played by Carl Lumbly was so touching, sincere, and genuine. He actually made Bobby Johnson change his life for the better. Nurse Shelby brought out emotions in Bobby Jr. Emotions Bobby didn't know he had in him just by a mere act of kindness of nurse Shelby playing table tennis and spending quality time with him, time that his own mother never gave him.It's the simply things that counts in life that we need to express in our Movies, our music and in our everyday lives.This is truly a must see movie!I give it a 10 & A+Outstanding!
i thought this movie was cool the first time i saw it.. like when i was in 5th grade... low and behold 10 years later when i see it again, I WAS TOTALLY TOTALLY WRONG. this movie was quite bad. it's one of those that you regret seeing, like howard the duck. my suggestions is to take every copy of it off the market and have a good old burn pile. the movie is garbage and if i ever wanna see something like this, i'll just turn on the upn or the daily news.
This movie is one of the best in this genre,I think of it among with "Boys N the hood" and "Menace to society". It shows how hard it can be to grow up in a bad neighborhood,and how easy drugs and criminal life takes over.
