Tyrin Turner
Caine "Kaydee" Lawson
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Jun 15, 2023 · June 15, 2023. When it was released 30 years ago, “ Menace II Society ” was a shock to the system. Maybe because the trailer conveyed a sense of optimism amid scenes of Black urban life, many...
After growing up in the gang lifestyle of the Los Angeles projects, 18-year-old Caine Lawson (Tyrin Turner) wants a way out. Everyone around him, including his unpredictable friend O-Dog (Larenz ...
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May 26, 1993 · As a small boy he sees his father murder a man over a trivial matter. He sees his mother die of an overdose. He takes an older neighborhood man as his mentor, only to see him go to prison. By the time he is in high school, Caine wears a beeper on his belt and is a small-time drug dealer.
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Menace II Society. 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.
Menace II Society (pronounced Menace to Society) is a 1993 American teen drama film directed by the Hughes Brothers in their directorial debut. The film is set in Watts and Crenshaw neighborhoods of Los Angeles, and follows the life of Caine Lawson ( Tyrin Turner) and his close friends.
About. Menace II Society. DRAMA. In an unflinching look at the mean streets of the contemporary urban American ghetto, a Black youth--despite his dreams for a better life--ultimately succumbs to the cycle of violence that pervades his community. 17+. COMMON SENSE. Intense '90s film about oppression has violence, drugs. 84% TOMATOMETER. Average 7.4.
