Menace II Society

After directing videos for artists including Tupac Shakur and Tone Loc, Albert and Allen Hughes rocked both the hip-hop and filmmaking worlds with the debut of their stylish first feature film. Small-time dealer Caine (Tyrin Turner) thinks he might want out of the gang life of Watts. As a kid he watched his mother overdose and his father kill a man, and he was present when his friend O-Dog (Larenz Tate) killed a store clerk. But despite some positive influences in his life, he is pulled deeper and deeper into a world of violence and hopelessness. Also with Jada Pinkett Smith and Samuel L. Jackson. (97 mins., 35mm)See the complete Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair lineup.IMAGE CAPTIONMenace II Society, courtesy of Park Circus.