- 5 stars: 13 (65%)
- 4 stars: 5 (25%)
- 3 stars: 2 (10%)
- 2 stars: 0 (0%)
- 1 star: 0 (0%)
The recipient really enjoyed the gift
Loved it
"13... d@mn.. they must be running out of people to arrest "
Liked the content
I got what I wanted
One of the best movies that I've seen.
Good movie... It can teach others about the way things were years ago
The movie kind of jumped around, but it's a must see film!! All to familiar coming of age tale for the young brother. I can definitely dig it!!!
Good stuff before my time
This movie was a very good movie it came and good condition I enjoyed the movie and it's based off a true story
I only gave it three stars because the purchase was not for me my brother gave me the money to buy it, and has seen it.
Great movie dealing with many social issues relevant in today's African American society. Amazing film. Great use for academic purposes or as a great addition to your DVD collection. A classic. Highly recommended
I grew up watching this coming of age classic and have hunted it down for years... Anyone who came up during that era could totally relate to the themes...
My mother showed me this movie when I was 14 years old and it has become one of my favorites!!! Very touching and relatable! I have it on VHS but had to get the DVD and am so glad I did!!
This movie was a classic and I had tried to see it for years I finally got the chance.. It was very interesting urban and gritty and very eye opening. The setting and main character was very good as well. This is what you called back in the day a Sign of the Times. The message is in the main character Sonny Carson and what a message it turned out to be. I understand it made a big impression on some of our Rap Stars today. This is not Cooley High so don't expect it to be.
Had heard about this film for some time but not seen it yet. It's based on an actual person, but deals with a few social issues of the time, in a 70's kind of way, while still remaining somewhat light-hearted. (As an aside, fans of Ghostface's Ironman album will finally get a chance to see the action that goes with the sound clips they've come to know.)
Found this movie from listening to Tony Starks aka (Ghostface Killah: MEMBER of Wu-Tang)This is a pretty good flick. Showing up and commings of young "guns" growin up and out! I love the TRUE DIALOGE that is used. I hate watching tv, movies where they don't speak the REAL way someone would in different situations, races, parts of the world.(I mean really.... Nobody in the "HOOD" is saying "Hi, Mother" rather than "Hay Ma") Note really that important.. but you catch my drift.anyway.. Good flick
I WENT TO SEE THIS MOVIE WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT, THROUGH THE YEARS IT ALWAYS STAYED IN MY MIND, I WAS HAPPY TO SEE THAT SOMEONE SAVED A COPY OF IT JUST FOR ME. NEEDLESS TO SAY, I AM IMPRESSED,GRATEFUL, AND VERY THANKFUL. THANK YOU!!!!! AMAZON IS THE BEST!!!!
If you bought this you should know what you are getting. It is a classic both in content and story line. It is not the best movie in the world but a must see if you want to understand the mind of the inner city youth.
This movie was probably the first of its type. Many "life as a gang member" films came to follow it (especially in the 1980s and 1990s), but none really did so like this one... Most the ones that followed had a tendency to be too "Hollywood Melodramatic"-ish (at times cartoonish, and at other times somewhat preachy.) Without spoiling the ending, though Sonny Carson makes an important decision at the end of the film, the ending is anything but happy... in fact it is often critisized for its apparent "inconclusion", but I disagree... It is what makes the film so great. Almost like a documentary ("120 Blocks from Tiffany's") the film simply tells the story and leaves the big question to be asked and answered by the viewer. Sonny has "graduated" from his training by society and the system... the "happy" days of his violent education are over... but what next ? What is in his future ? Isn't everyone promised the American dream??? Sonny walks the straight path, but the odds still seem stacked against him. It would seem to me that if the film has been understood the viewer should leave it not demanding to know what happened to SONNY himself, but rather wondering about the plight of all the other SONNYs in the world... what society did to create the situation and what society or the communities are failing to do to resolve it ? Then we must debate whether Sonny's future is really in his own hands and if he does have a fair chance to make a life for himself. This, I assume was might have been the director's intention.Though fans of 70s urban action type films will love the music and on-scene locations (and notice a few actors... for example the cop from the MAC and the gang leader from THE WARRIORS) beware, this is not just another 70's urban action thriller... it is an urban coming of Age Story, starting from Sonny's graduation from Jr. HS to his "education" (via the streets, the system) and ultimately jail, and his sad graduation into a lonely and questionable adulthood. Memorable and unique !