Boyz N The Hood: BOYZ 'N THE HOOD is the critically acclaimed story about three friends growing up in a South Central Los Angeles neighborhood, and of street life where friendship. pain. danger and love combine to form reality. "The Hood" is a place where drive by shootings and unemployment are rampant. But it is also a place where harmony co-exists with adversity, especially for the three young men growing up there, Doughboy (Ice Cube), an unambitious drug dealer, his brother Ricky (Morris Chestnut), a college bound teenage father and Ricky's best friend, Tre (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), who aspires to a brighter future beyond the "The Hood."

Higher Learning: Director John Singleton's Higher Learning follows three very different freshman students in their first term of university, who find themselves having to reassess their lives and confront such thought provoking issues as prejudice, racism and sexism. Former high school track star Malik Williams finds that instead of cruising through his first year of an athletic scholarship, he's actually going to have to run faster and harder in order to make the grade.

Poetic Justice: Janet Jackson made a terrific film debut in writer/director John Singleton's street smart love story Poetic Justice. A mismatched pair pushed together in a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland, Justice (Jackson) and Lucky (Tupac Shakur) have only one thing in common, they can't stand each other.