In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like Black dudes talking, not written by them.
Acting
Young cast chemistry so real you'll swear you went to school with them.
Direction
Famuyiwa's love letter to Inglewood before gentrification had its way.
Director
Rick Famuyiwa
Omar Epps
Mike
Richard T. Jones
Slim
Taye Diggs
Roland
Sanaa Lathan
Alicia
LisaRaye McCoy
Lisa
De'Aundre Bonds
Stacey
Antwon Tanner
Boo
Tamala Jones
Tanya
Jascha Washington
Mike's Brother
Patricia Belcher
Mrs. Hughes
Elayn J. Taylor
Roland's Mother
Cynthia Martells
Mike's Mother
Telma Hopkins
Slim's Mother
Basil Wallace
Lisa's Father
Malinda Williams
Young Alicia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Famuyiwa fought studio pressure to set this anywhere but Inglewood—this is one of the few studio films of its era to center middle-class Black suburbia without poverty tourism.
The young actors playing Mike, Slim and Roland had never met before filming—their instant chemistry was pure luck, or maybe just that '90s magic.
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