Menace II Society (1993)

Name: Menace II Society (1993)
Start: 2026-05-20T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Madison Public Library

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Wed, 20 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Madison Public Library | Madison, WI

MENACE II SOCIETY
United States | 1993 | BD | 97 minutes | Color | English
Director: Albert and Allen Hughes
Cast: Tyrin Turner, Jada Pinkett, Larenz Tate, Arnold Johnson, MC Eiht, Marilyn Coleman, Vonte Sweet, Clifton Powell, Glenn Plummer, Bill Duke, Samuel L. Jackson, Charles S. Dutton, Ryan Williams, June Kyoko Lu, Toshi Toda, Khandi Alexander
Directors Albert and Allen Hughes and screenwriter Tyger Williams were barely into their twenties when they sent shock waves through American cinema and hip-hop culture with this fatalistic, unflinching vision of life and death on the streets of Watts, Los Angeles, in the 1990s. There, in the shadow of the riots of 1965 and 1992, young Caine (Tyrin Turner) is growing up under the influence of his ruthless, drug-dealing father (Samuel L. Jackson, in a chilling cameo) and his loose-cannon best friend, O-Dog (Larenz Tate), leading him into a spiral of violent crime from which he is not sure he wants to escape, despite the best efforts of his grandparents and the steadfast Ronnie (Jada Pinkett). Fusing grim realism with a propulsively stylish aesthetic honed through the Hughes brothers’ work on rap videos, MENACE II SOCIETY is a searing cautionary tale about the devastating human toll of hopelessness.