Friday (1999)

Rating :	4.00
Certificate :	R
Genre(s) :	Drama, Comedy
Director(s) :	F. Gary Gray
Cast :	Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Kathleen Bradley, Tony Cox, Anna Maria Horsford, Anthony Johnson
Description :	Friday is the rarest specimen of African American cinema: a 'hood movie refreshingly free of the semi-seriousness and moralism of shoot 'em up soaps such as Boyz N the Hood, yet still true to the inner-city experience. Scripted by rapper Ice Cube, Friday is a no-frills tale of a typical day in the life of a pair of African American youth in South Central. Cube plays Craig, a frustrated teen who endures the ultimate humiliation: getting fired on his day off. Then unknown Chris Tucker plays Smokey, a marijuana-worshipping homeboy whose love for the green stuff lands him in predicament after predicament. Sitting on the stoop of Craig's rundown home, the two hilariously confront a kaleidoscopic array of gangbangers, weed dealers, crack heads, prostitutes, scheming girlfriends, and neighborhood bullies--all of whom, it should be noted, come off as sympathetic even as they are being caricatured, a true achievement in the crass, "booty call" environment of '90s African American comedy.

Additional details

Running Time :	91 mins
Released :	03/02/1999
Screen Format :	1.85:1
Sound formats :	Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Subtitles :	Spanish, English, French
Languages :	English

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