South Central (1992)

Directed by

Stephen Milburn Anderson

Genre

drama film, crime film, hood film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 106 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man gets out of prison and tries to steer his son away from gang life in South Central Los Angeles. He must confront his own past and the pull of the streets.

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What happens

South Central is a 1992 American crime-drama film, written and directed by Stephen Milburn Anderson. This film is an adaptation of the 1987 fiction novel, The Original South Central L.A. Crips by Donald Bakeer, a former high school teacher in South Central Los Angeles. The film stars Glenn Plummer, Byron Minns and Christian Coleman. South Central was produced by Oliver Stone and released by Warner Bros. The movie received wide critical acclaim, with many praising Plummer's performance, and New Yorker Magazine praising it as one of the year's best independent films. Janet Maslin of The New York Times named Anderson in the "Who's Who Among Hot New Filmmakers" in 1992, along with Quentin Tarantino and Tim Robbins. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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