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Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans (producer), Marlon Wayans (producer), Terri J. Vaughn (actress), Marlon Wayans (actor), Vivica A. Fox (actress), Mark Burg (producer), Chris Spencer (actor), Faizon Love (actor), Antonio Fargas (actor), Bernie Mac (actor), Shawn Wayans (actor), Guy Torry (actor), Keenen Ivory Wayans (actor), Marlon Wayans (writer), Shawn Wayans (producer),

Plot: "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking your Juice in the Hood" is a parody of a lot of black U.S. movies, for instance "Boyz n the Hood", "South Central", "Menace II Society", "Higher Learning" and "Juice". We follow Ashtray as he returns to the place he grew up in and meet his father and his basket-case friends. Crazy stuff happens. For example, Ashtray is older than his father and his best friend Loc Dog's grandmother is a trigger-happy old lady who blames her eccentric-looking kid for not being tough enough.

Keywords: 40-oz, african-american, alcohol, arcade-game, baptist-church, bare-chested-male, beating, beeper, black-american, black-comedy
Genres: Comedy, Crime,
Taglines: Finally, the movie that proves that Justice isn't always Poetic, Jungle Fever isn't always pretty, and Higher Learning can be a waste of time.

Quotes:

Grandma: Ashtray! You little bitch ass motherfucker! Come over here and give your grandma a hug!

Ashtray's Mother: Tray, I don't want you hangin' out in the streets. I want you to finish school, 'cause without an education the only kind of work you're gonna get is sellin' drugs, pimpin' women, or workin' security for Eddie Murphy.

Dashiki: Now kids, what do we say to a man that Mommy just met?::Kids: Are you my daddy?

[during job interview]::Recruiter: Well, I see your hobbies include "drinkin', smokin' weed, and all kinds of ill shit."

Ashtray's cellmate: If you hit a man, in time his wounds will heal. If you steal from a man, you can replace what you've stolen. But always cross in the green, never in between. Because the honorable Elijah Muhammed Ali floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. And always remember my brother, one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish, knick knack, paddy whack, give a dog a bone, two thousand, zero, zero, party, oops! Out of time, my bacon smellin' fine.

Loc Dog: How much for this candy bar?::Korean Woman: Das five dala!::Loc Dog: Five dollars? Damn! I better get some sucky-sucky with that!

Loc Dog: Everyone in the hood been up in her! She got more kids than Mrs. Wayans!

Ashtray: So, will I see you again?::Ashtray's Mother: Sorry, baby: you know there ain't no positive black females in these movies.

[while filling out job application]::Loc Dog: Name: Loc Dog, baby. Height: Six-deuce! Age: 19. Father's name: mmm... I dunno. Sex: hell yeah, nigga! Salary desired: 3 million dollars! Cash!

Preach: I'm just tryin' to do to white girls what the white man's been doin' to us for 400 years.::Crazy Legs: Yeah, what's that?::Preach: Fuck 'em.

Newman's Law (1974)

Actors: Richard Irving (producer), Michael Lerner (actor), George Peppard (actor), Titos Vandis (actor), Louis Zorich (actor), David Spielberg (actor), Abe Vigoda (actor), Eugene Roche (actor), Gordon Pinsent (actor), Regis Cordic (actor), Stack Pierce (actor), Richard Bull (actor), Kip Niven (actor), Mel Stewart (actor), Richard T. Heffron (director),

Plot: Police officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. His honesty is put to a strong test when he and his partner discover an international drug ring involving some of the police department's highest ranking officers.

Keywords: automobile-chase, character-name-in-title, city, corruption, detective, drug-ring, drugs, false-accusation, mafia, police
Genres: Action, Crime,
Taglines: Most cops play it by the book. Newman wrote his own!