Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire), Ice Cube (Friday), and Angela Bassett (Strange Days) deliver breakout performances in writer-director John Singleton’s iconic snapshot of gang culture in 1990s Los Angeles.

Tre (Gooding Jr.) is sent to live with his father (Laurence Fishburne – The Matrix) in tough South Central Los Angeles. Although his hard-nosed father instills proper values and respect in him, and his devout girlfriend Brandi (Nia Long) teaches him about faith, Tre's friends Doughboy (Cube) and Ricky (Morris Chestnut) don't have the same kind of support and are drawn into the neighborhood's booming drug and gang culture, with increasingly tragic results.