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Menace II Society
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
1993 · Directed by Albert Hughes · 97 min · Drama · Crime · Thriller · 18 frames
Tagline
This is the truth. This is what's real.
Crew
- Screenplay: Tyger Williams
- Cinematography: Lisa Rinzler
- Edited by: Christopher Koefoed
- Music: Quincy Jones III
- Production design: Penny Barrett
- Produced by: Darin Scott
Cast
- Tyrin Turner as Caine 'Kaydee' Lawson
- Larenz Tate as Kevin 'O-Dog'
- Glenn Plummer as Pernell
- Jada Pinkett Smith as Ronnie
- Samuel L. Jackson as Tat Lawson
- June Kyoto Lu as Grocery Store Woman
- Toshi Toda as Grocery Store Man
- Reginald Ballard as Clyde
- Khandi Alexander as Karen Lawson
- Jullian Roy Doster as Anthony
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: New Line Cinema
- Budget: $3,500,000
- Box office: $27,900,000
- Themes: drug dealer, street gang, gangster, ghetto, delinquency, los angeles, california, shocking, angry, aggressive, hopeless
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