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Menace II society [Blu-ray] / New Line Cinema presents ; a New Line production ; a Hughes Brothers film ; directed by the Hughes brothers ; story by Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes, Tyger Williams ; screenplay by Tyger Williams ; produced by Darin Scott.

[New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2021]

African American teenagers -- Drama.

Urban violence -- Drama.

Inner cities -- Drama.

Violent crimes -- Drama.

Drug abuse and crime -- Drama.

Violent deaths -- Drama.

Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 1105.

1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color with 1 black and white scene ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages ; illustrations)

Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.

Directors Albert and Allen Hughes and screenwriter Tyger Williams were barely into their twenties when they sent shock waves through American cinema and hip-hop culture with this fatalistic, unflinching vision of life and death on the streets of Watts, Los Angeles, in the 1990s. There, in the shadow of the riots of 1965 and 1992, young Caine is growing up under the influence of his ruthless, drug-dealing father and his loose-cannon best friend, O-Dog, leading him into a spiral of violent crime from which he is not sure he wants to escape, despite the best efforts of his grandparents and the steadfast Ronnie. Fusing grim realism with a propulsively stylish aesthetic honed through the Hughes brothers' work on rap videos, this film is a searing cautionary tale about the devastating human toll of hopelessness.

MPAA rating: R; for strong bloody violence, drug use and pervasive language.

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