Menace II society
Blu-ray - 2021
Directors Albert and Allen Hughes and screenwriter Tyger Williams were barely into their twenties when they sent shock waves through American cinema and hip-hop culture with this fatalistic, unflinching vision of life and death on the streets of Watts, Los Angeles, in the 1990s. There, in the shadow of the riots of 1965 and 1992, young Caine is growing up under the influence of his ruthless, drug-dealing father and his loose-cannon best friend, O-Dog, leading him into a spiral of violent crime from which he is not sure he wants to escape, despite the best efforts of his grandparents and the steadfast Ronnie. Fusing grim realism with a propulsively stylish aesthetic honed through the Hughes brothers' work on rap videos, this film is a s...earing cautionary tale about the devastating human toll of hopelessness.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Drama
Feature films
Fiction films
Gangster films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection
[2021]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Director-approved Blu-ray special edition ; Blu-ray edition
- Item Description
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1993.
Wide screen.
Special features:Two audio commentaries from 1993 with Allen Hughes and Albert Hughes; Gangsta vision (a 2009 feaurette with cast and crew interviews); Capturing youth (2021 conversation among Albert Hughes, Tyger Williams, Elvis Mitchell); Trust and collaboration (2021 conversation among Allen Hughes, Bill Duke, and Mitchell); Lisa Rinzler (selected scene commentary with the cinematographer); The Hughes Brothers, 1993 (interview from 1993 with the directors); deleted scenes; film-to-storyboard comparison; trailer; 2pac: Brenda's got baby (music video directed by the Hughes Bros.). - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color with 1 black and white scene ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (1.85:1); 7.1 surround or original 2.0 surround; requires Blu-ray player.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: R; for strong bloody violence, drug use and pervasive language.
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Lisa Rinzler ; editor, Christopher Koefoed ; music, QD III.
- ISBN
- 9781681438962
