A portrait of black urban America, focusing on three friends growing up in a South Los Angeles neighborhood where friendship, pain, and love are just some of the lessons learned on the streets.
John Singleton, Nia Long, Ceal, Regina King, Lloyd Avery, Dee Dee Jacobs, Vonte Sweet, Susan Falcon, Baldwin C. Sykes, Laurence Fishburne, John Cothran, Don Nelson, Mia Bell, Kirk Kinder, Raymond D. Turner, Dedrick D. Gobert, Yolanda Whittaker, Nicole Brown, Desi Arrnez Hines, Morris Chestnut, Meta King, Valentino Harrison, Hudhail Al-Amir, Baha Jackson, Donovan McCrary, Cuba Gooding, Darneicea Corley, Jimmy Lee Newman, Na'Blonka Durden, Leonette Scott, Kenneth A. Brown, Tammy Hanson, Esther Scott, Ice Cube, Tyra Ferrell, Kareem Grimes, Malcolm Norrington, Angela Bassett, Leslie Bigham, Leanear Lane, Redge Green, Whitman Mayo, Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, Alysia M. Rogers, John Singleton