Baby Boy

John Singleton wrote and directed this impressive urban drama about an aimless 20-year-old. Hip-hop star Tyrese Gibson is excellent as the lead, who has fathered two children by different women but still lives at home with his mother. Ving Rhames and Snoop Dogg stand out in the supporting cast. Omar Gooding, A.J. Johnson, Taraji P. Henson, Tamara LaSeon Bass., (2001) John Singleton’s film is set in South Central Los Angeles, where it’s another day in paradise for Jody (Tyrese Gibson), a hopeless, jobless youngster whose current partner, Yvette (Taraji P. Henson) has just had an abortion. Unable to care for the child he has by another woman, Jody is forced to live with his mother Juanita (A. J. Johnson), who has another preoccupation: her growing relationship with ex-gangster Melvin (VIng Rhames). To make some cash, Jody enlists the help of his friend Sweetpea (Omar Gooding) to boost some clothes and sell them on. It’s a bad decision, compounded by his actions toward Yvette and the arrival of her sinister ex-boyfriend, Rodney (Snoop Dogg) on the scene… Premiere., Ten years after Boyz ‘N the Hood , John Singleton returns to central Los Angeles. Tyrese Gibson is 20, jobless and the father of two boys by different women. As he copes with growing up, he has to help his troubled friend Omar Gooding as well as facing up to a new name on the block, Snoopy Doggy Dogg., Unflinching drama following Jody, a 20-year-old black man who refuses to take responsibility for his life. He’s fathered two children with two different girls and has no job, still living with his mum. She starts dating Melvin, a reformed gangster, but Jody won’t accept the older man., Ten years later, writer and director John Singleton returns to the South Central Los Angeles neighborhoods of his debut film Boyz ‘N the Hood (1991). Tyrese Gibson stars as Jody, a jobless 20-year-old African-American man who has fathered two children by two different women, Yvette (Taraji P. Henson) and Peanut (Tamara LaSeon Bass), although he still lives with his 36-year-old mother Juanita (Adrienne-Joi Johnson). As Jody grapples with the increasing pressures of adult responsibility, he also contends with his troubled best friend Sweetpea (Omar Gooding) and new adversary Rodney (Snoop Doggy Dogg). Then there’s his mother’s live-in boyfriend Marvin (Ving Rhames), a reformed gangsta who agrees with Juanita that her son should grow up, move out, and move on., A 20-year-old Californian (Tyrese Gibson), an unemployed father of two who still lives at home, is challenged to grow up by his mother (A.J. Johnson) and her new boyfriend (Ving Rhames)., A 20-year-old unemployed father of two living at home is challenged to grow up by his mother and her new boyfriend.