Later, Brenda sobs over Ricky's test results, discovering he scored 710, enough to qualify for the USC scholarship.ДЄngered and distraught, the remaining boys vow vengeance on the Bloods. Brenda and Shanice blame Doughboy, who unsuccessfully tries to comfort them. Doughboy, who realized Tre and Ricky were in trouble when he saw the car circling the block, is distraught over Ricky's death and helps Tre carry Ricky's corpse home.

As they walk in separate directions, the Bloods drive close to Ricky and one of them guns Ricky down, killing him. After leaving the store, Ricky and Tre see Ferris and the Bloods driving around the neighborhood and cut through back alleys to avoid them before splitting up. After they depart, a mailman delivers a letter with Ricky's SAT results. Afterward, Brenda asks Ricky to run an errand and Tre accompanies him to a nearby drugstore. The next afternoon, Ricky has a fight with Doughboy, with Brenda taking Ricky's side and berating Doughboy.

After she comforts him, they have sex for the first time. Distraught, Tre goes to Brandi's house, where he has a breakdown. Coffey holds his gun at Tre's chest, threatening him. After they leave, Tre and Ricky are pulled over by an LAPD patrol the lead officer, Coffey, is the black officer who responded to the burglary years earlier. 45 ACP handgun, leading to an argument between the gangs. In defense of Ricky, Doughboy brandishes his. Later, during a street racing gathering, Ricky is provoked by Ferris, a Bloods member. Their relationship is troubled over Tre's desire to have sex, while Brandi wants to wait until marriage. Meanwhile, Tre has grown into a responsible teenager who hopes to attend college with his girlfriend, Brandi. Ricky, now a star running back at Crenshaw High School, lives with his mother Brenda, girlfriend Shanice, and their toddler son. Also at the party are Chris, now in a wheelchair from a gunshot wound, 'Dookie', and 'Monster'. Seven years later, a welcome home party is held for Doughboy, now a Crips member, following his release from prison. The next day, Tre and Furious arrive home and see Doughboy and Chris being arrested for stealing. The white officer is civil, while the black one treats Furious with contempt. Furious calls the LAPD, and two officers arrive an hour later. That night, Tre hears Furious shooting at a burglar.

In Crenshaw, Tre reunites with his childhood friends Darrin 'Doughboy' Baker, Doughboy's half-brother Ricky, and their friend Chris. Frightened about Tre's future, Reva sends him to live in the Crenshaw neighborhood of South Central with his father, Furious Styles, from whom she hopes Tre will learn life lessons. After Tre gets into a fight at school, his teacher calls Reva and says that although Tre is intelligent, he is immature and lacks respect. In 1984, ten-year-old Tre Styles lives with his single mother, Reva Devereaux, in Inglewood, California. In 2002, the United States Library of Congress deemed it 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant' and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. It grossed $57.5 million in North America, and was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the 64th Academy Awards, making Singleton the youngest person and the first African-American to be nominated for Best Director. The film became a critical and commercial success, praised for its emotional weight, acting, and writing. The film is notable for featuring breakout roles for Ice Cube, Gooding Jr., Chestnut, and Long.Д«oyz n the Hood premiered in Los Angeles on July 2, 1991, and was theatrically released in the United States ten days later. Principal photography began in September 1990 and was filmed on location from October to November 1990.

During writing, he drew inspiration from his own life and from the lives of people he knew and insisted he direct the project. Singleton initially developed the film as a requirement for application to film school in 1986 and sold the script to Columbia Pictures upon graduation in 1990. The film's title is a double entendre: a play on the term boyhood and a reference to the 1987 Eazy-E rap song of the same name, written by Ice Cube. Boyz n the Hood follows Tre Styles (Gooding Jr.), who is sent to live with his father Furious Styles (Fishburne) in South Central Los Angeles, surrounded by the neighborhood's booming gang culture. It stars Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne, Nia Long, Regina King, and Angela Bassett. Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American coming-of-age hood drama film written and directed by John Singleton in his feature directorial debut.

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