Baby Boy
In South Central L.A., a misguided 20-year-old African-American man, a 'baby boy', faces the commitments of real life.
12 May 1959, New York City, New York, USA
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
2 August 1983, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
14 August 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 October 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 July 1934, New York, New York, USA
6 January 1968, Los Angeles, California, USA
July 04, 2011
The film is a bold examination of an aspect of African American life. There's no shortage of sex, violence, or urban realism.
December 21, 2005
Recommended mainly to the more devoted Singleton fans, Baby Boy is pretty strong evidence of a filmmaker who still has plenty to say.
July 06, 2001
One of the most entertaining African-American comedies of manners ever made.
September 25, 2002
...while it's not as gritty as Boyz N the Hood or as compelling as Higher Learning, Baby Boy is certainly worth checking out if only for the superb performances...
July 02, 2001
What holds the movie together ... is Gibson's broodingly responsive performance.
July 12, 2001
I felt myself drawn into a vortex of raw emotion from which I could not escape.
June 29, 2001
Pootie Tang this ain't.
July 06, 2001
[Jody's] lessons on growing up and moving on never ring more than halfhearted and false.
February 26, 2006
This is yet another coming-of-age tale except that the hero is not a teenager but a young man who goes out of his way to be macho but really is a mama boy.
March 04, 2002
There's no cuddling this Baby Boy, a profoundly sad commentary on the vicious circle that continues to terminally plague our bewildered, impressionable and disadvantaged young urban black men.
January 29, 2010
The characters are so full-bodied and the feelings so raw and complex that I'd call this the best thing John Singleton has done to date
November 18, 2002
An unfortunate hybrid of Oedipal and Peter Pan complexes, Singleton's film is a mishmash of half-cocked ideas and unrealized sentiments.
