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Name: Menace II Society
Released: 1993-1-1
Cast: Tyrin Turner, Jada Pinkett, Larenz Tate, Arnold Johnson, MC Eiht

Menace II Society

R
1h 44m
1993

84%

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In an unflinching look at the mean streets of the contemporary urban American ghetto, a Black youth--despite his dreams for a better life--ultimately succumbs to the cycle of violence that pervades his community.

Director:

Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes

Producer:

Darin Scott

Cast:

Tyrin Turner, Jada Pinkett, Larenz Tate, Arnold Johnson, MC Eiht, Marilyn Coleman, Vonté Sweet, Clifton Powell, Glenn Plummer, Bill Duke, Samuel L. Jackson, Charles S. Dutton

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

84%

Critics Consensus: Told with grit and verve by the Hughes brothers in their feature debut, Menace II Society is a gangland epic that breathes with authenticity while steeped in style.

Reviews

New York Times

Lawrence Ware

With a tragic hero at its heart, the Hughes brothers’ debut drama painted nuanced portraits of characters rarely fleshed out in other films.

A lot like Boyz N Da Hood released two years earlier, it is a bleak picture and captures lightning in a bottle in which the city was still fuming from the Rodney King riots.

Now that it is a Criterion release with a stunning 4K restoration, [Menace II Society] remains an important chapter in understanding why the streets are more than what is stereotypically portrayed in the media.

Remains a powerful indictment of a country which was failing young black men in in the 1990s.

From its shocking opening sequence to its fatalistic finale, Menace II Society is a raw and (mostly) realistic drama.

November 27, 2021

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