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A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison. But trouble soon follows and the suburbs will never be the same.
2000 · Directed by Steve Carr · 98 min · Comedy · Screenplay in the scene database · 10 frames
Tagline
The suburbs make the hood look good.
Plot
After finding out Deebo escaped prison with his brother Tyrone to get revenge on Craig, Willie decides it would be safer for Craig to move to Rancho Cucamonga to live with his uncle Elroy and cousin Day-Day, who just won the lottery, until Deebo is sent back to prison. After some stalling, Craig explains that he really didn't want to leave his neighborhood nor Smokey (who has since gone to rehab) behind. He accepts the fact that he needs to move after a run in with Deebo. Day-Day explains to Craig that while winning the lottery, all of the taxes and fees that were taken out only left them enough to buy their house and a car that is owned by Day-Day. A mailman delivers a notice informing them that their house could face repossession.
Before Craig visits Day-Day at work at a record shop, an angry customer threatens Day-Day. Craig pushes the customer, causing him to run out of the store, and Day-Day introduces Craig to his white skateboarder friend and co-worker Roach. Craig then shows Day-Day the notice. Day-Day hides from his ex-girlfriend D'Wana and her younger yet physically intimidating sister Baby D who constantly harass him saying that he is her baby's father, even though he met her when she was 3 months pregnant. D'Wana throws a brick at his car windshield. Day-Day and Roach's boss Pinky arrives at the store, finding it locked. While Day-Day and Roach are in the back smoking, a scuffle between Craig and Pinky ensues in which Pinky mistakes him for a robber, while Craig tries to explain who he is. Pinky then fires Day-Day and Roach in anger.
Craig, Day-Day and Roach try to figure out how to keep the house. Craig remembers seeing their neighbors, a trio of gang member brothers known as "the Jokers", who live with their sister Karla carrying a hydraulic pump. Suspecting that it may be hiding cash, Craig convinces Day-Day and Roach to help him get inside the Jokers' house and steal their pump.
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Crew
- Written by: Ice Cube
- Cinematography: Christopher Baffa
- Edited by: Elena Maganini
- Music: Terence Blanchard
- Production design: Dina Lipton
- Produced by: Ice Cube
Cast
- Ice Cube as Craig Jones
- Mike Epps as Day-Day
- Justin Pierce as Roach
- John Witherspoon as Mr. Jones
- Don Curry as Uncle Elroy
- Jacob Vargas as Joker
- Lobo Sebastian as Lil Joker
- Rolando Molina as Baby Joker
- Lisa Rodríguez as Karla
- Tommy Lister Jr. as Debo
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: New Line Cinema, Cube Vision
- Budget: $11,000,000
- Box office: $59,827,328
- Themes: prison, escape, repayment, gang war, boy gang, sequel, prison escape, bully, revenge, los angeles, california
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