John Singleton directs this crime drama starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and
Laurence Fishburne. Tre (Gooding Jr.), a young African-American, is sent
to live with his father in Los Angeles. Despite his earnest attempts to
stay out of trouble, he and his friends are drawn into local gang
violence. Eventually he finds that he must choose between a life
surrounded by crime and his desire to leave the neighbourhood and get a
college education.