Menace II Society

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As a child, Caine (Tyrin Turner) was raised in a "den of thieves", with a heroin-addicted mother and a gun-toting, drug-pushing father. At the age of five, Caine learns how to shoot a gun and witnesses his father kill someone in cold blood. By the time of his high school graduation, he's already a seasoned drug pusher. One night, he and his friend O-Dog (Larenz Tate) go into a store to get a beer. O-Dog takes exception to a remark made by the owner, and, with Caine standing by his side, guns the man down. Starting at this moment, the pair start down a road of crime that nothing can rescue them from -- not even the fear of death. In fact, when Caine's grandfather asks him if he wants to stay alive, his response is, "I don't know."

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93% Audience Score

Caine, the young man at the center of "Menace II Society," is not an evil person in the usual sense of the word. He has a good nature and a quick intelligence, and in another world he might have turned out happy and productive. But he was not raised in a world that allowed that side of his character to develop, and that is the whole point of this powerful film.

A Watts teenager becomes so immersed in his violent world, he can't get out. (New Line Cinema)

In the cataclysmic opening scene of Menace II Society, a couple of L.A. homeboys-Caine (Tyrin Turner), a crucifix hanging from his neck, and O-Dog (Larenz Tate), his baby face draped with Rasta braids-saunter down the fluorescent aisle of a Korean grocery store. The air is thick with fear, pride, and violence. O-Dog, sensing heâ??s being watched (heâ??s right), starts tossing verbal firecrackers at the storeâ??s mom-and-pop owners as the cashier yells at him to stop swigging from his oversize beer bottle.

Menace II Society (1993) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Directed by Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes. With Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, June Kyoto Lu, Toshi Toda. A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

Directed by twenty-year-old twins, Allen and Albert Hughes, this groundbreaking film goes beyond its docudrama setting in the L.A. hood to explore the roots of gangsta violence among its fatherless homeboys. The subject isn't "Who killed who?" It's "Who killed feeling?"

Menace II Society is a 1993 American hood drama thriller film directed by Allen and Albert Hughes[2] in their directorial debut, and starring Tyrin Turner, Jada Pinkett, Larenz Tate and Samuel L. Jackson. The film is set in South Central Los Angeles, California. The film follows the life of a young man named Kaydee "Caine" Lawson and his close friends. It gained notoriety for its scenes of violence, profanity, and drug-related content. It was released in May 1993 to critical acclaim for its gritty portrayal of urban violence and its powerful underlying messages.