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South Central (1992)

South Central poster
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
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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)

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