Baby Boy R

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  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 6, 2001
  • Originally Released: 2001
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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User Ratings: 62,667
Rating: 3/5 -- Johnson and Rhames are superb as Jody's charming, hard-working mother and her ex-con boyfriend Melvin. Full Review
BBC.com
Nov 12, 2001
...BABY BOY leaves you shaken....[Gibson and Snoop Dogg] give the film the power and potency of rap...
Rolling Stone
Jul 19, 2001
Rating: 3.5/5 -- Recommended mainly to the more devoted Singleton fans, Baby Boy is pretty strong evidence of a filmmaker who still has plenty to say. Full Review
DVD Clinic
Dec 21, 2005
Rating: 2.5/4 -- ...while it's not as gritty as Boyz N the Hood or as compelling as Higher Learning, Baby Boy is certainly worth checking out if only for the superb performances... Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Sep 26, 2002
...BABY BOY earns credibility for its insights by moving beyond image and rhetoric....[Snoop Dogg's] performance is sly, menacing and disarmingly funny...
New York Times
Jun 27, 2001
...The characters are vibrant....Singleton's writing is skillful enough to make them come engagingly to life...
Variety
Jul 9, 2001
The characters are so full-bodied and the feelings so raw and complex that I'd call this the best thing John Singleton has done to date Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 29, 2010

Product Description:

Director John Singleton (BOYZ IN THE HOOD, SHAFT) revisits to South Central L.A. with BABY BOY. Former Calvin Klein model Tyrese Gibson stars as Jody, a smooth-talking but immature black male who has children from two different women. One of them, Yvette (Taraji P. Henson), wants him to be faithful and move in with her, but Jody prefers his room at Mom's (A.J. Johnson) house, and his life of aimless womanizing and hanging out with neighborhood pal Sweet Pea (Omar Gooding). However, this childhood paradise seems about to destruct with the arrival of Mom's new ex-con boyfriend, Melvin (Ving Rhames). And when a dangerous former lover of Yvette's (Snoop Doggy Dogg in a nicely unsympathetic performance) gets out of jail and moves back in, the stage is set for Jody to either stand up like a man, or die in the attempt.

Singleton tells the story in a series of vibrant vignettes, and though he supplies plenty of crowd-pleasing sex and violence, the focus remains on his characters. A rich score of old and new rap and R&B gives the film a nice boost, and Rhames is superb as the aging former thug trying to find happiness with Jody's mom.

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  • Sales Rank: 37,027
  • UPC: 043396064584
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