Baby Boy Review |
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2.5/4) |
"Why are you so afraid to leave the nest?" Jody's mother (A.J. Johnson) asks
him. After all, he's a grown man with two families, having had babies out of
wedlock with two different women, but Jody (Tyrese Gibson) stays at home with
his mother. He...more |
Baby Boy Review |
by Rose 'Bams' Cooper |
BABY BOY (2001)
Rated R; running time 126 minutes
Genre: Drama
Seen at: Jack Lokes' Celebration Cinema (Lansing, Michigan)
Official site: http://www.spe.sony.com/movies/babyboy/
IMDB site: http://us.imdb.com/Details?0255819
Written by: John...more |
Baby Boy Review |
by Harvey S. Karten |
Reviewed by Harvey Karten
Columbia Pictures
Director: John Singleton
Writer: John Singleton
Cast: Tyrese Gibson, Adrienne-Joi Johnson Ving Rhames,
Taraji P. Henson, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tamara LaSeon Bass,
Omar Gooding more |
Baby Boy Review |
by Dustin Putman |
Directed by John Singleton.
Cast: Tyrese Gibson, A.J. Johnson, Taraji P. Henson, Ving Rhames, Omar
Gooding, Snoop Dogg, Tamara LaSeon Bass.
2001 - 128 minutes
Rated R (for sex, nudity, violence, and profanity).
Reviewed by Dustin Putman, June 27, 2001. more |
Baby Boy Review |
by SSG Syndicate |
Susan Granger's review of "BABY BOY" (Columbia Pictures)
In previous films like "Boyz N the Hood," writer/director John Singleton has focused on understanding troubled black men trapped in South Central L.A. but in this new film he is...more |
Baby Boy Review |
by JoBlo |
PLOT:
A big-time momma's boy can't seem to leave his mother's crib and make
good on the babies that he himself has produced in the world. He visits
his kids (and their mommas) every now and then, but his main goal in
life is...well, he doesn't have...more |
Baby Boy Review |
by Robin Clifford |
In 1991, 23-year old director John Singleton exploded on the movie scene
with his insightful and unflinching look into the impact of violence on an
inner city black family in "Boyz N the Hood, becoming the youngest helmer,
ever, to receive an Oscar...more |
Baby Boy Review |
by Laura Clifford |
Jody (Tyrese Gibson) is a 20-year-old African-American who has fathered
two children by two different women, yet still lives at the South Central
home of his 36-year-old mother Juanita (A.J. Johnson, "The Inkwell").
Juanita is embarking on a new...more |
Baby Boy Review |
by Jon Popick |
Since the turn of the century, there have been seven major motion pictures
released on Wednesdays that didn't precede holiday weekends. Five of those
seven were films targeted to urban audiences, most of them were big bags of
crap (Next Friday, 3...more |
Baby Boy Review |
by Annette Cardwell |
Ten years after releasing the groundbreaking Boyz N the Hood,
writer-director John Singleton revisits his "young black man in the
ghetto struggling against a violent end" cautionary tale, but with more
humor and realism, in his newest film Baby Boy,...more |
Baby Boy Review |
by Michael Dequina |
Given the fact that _Baby_Boy_ marks writer-director John
Singleton's cinematic return to the 'hood of South Central Los Angeles a
full decade after his acclaimed debut _Boyz_N_the_Hood_, it makes sense
for Columbia Pictures to play up the...more |