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Boyz N The Hood
Despite the incoherent special effects and relying on clichés about young black men, Boyz N The Hood is an inspiring and thought-provoking film, which features riveting performance by Cuba Gooding Jr.

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The story opens on a normal South Central, Los Angeles day. Tre styles is a smart kid whose pride and slick mouth in school causes his teacher to take disciplinary actions and calls his mother. As a result Tre’s mother Reva, decides the best thing for both of them would be to send Tre to live with his father, Furious Styles. Living with his father Tre is forced with rules keeping himself occupied, it was his father’s way of raising a man and avoids becoming a kid in the hood. Shortly after Tre is reunited with his friends

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