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0 / 9 watchedNine features in release order.
About John Singleton
John Singleton directed Boyz n the Hood in 1991 and Poetic Justice in 1993, then Higher Learning in 1995, Rosewood in 1997, Shaft in 2000 and Baby Boy in 2001.
2 Fast 2 Furious arrived in 2003, Four Brothers in 2005 and Abduction in 2011. Watch in release order. The South Central pictures share streets but no continuity, and the studio run spends the same neighborhood craft at bigger budgets. Cube and Gooding lead the debut with Fishburne narrating the moral center. The studio films keep the neighborhood casting rules.
Good to know
Each film stands alone, so no chronological order exists. Boyz n the Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning and Baby Boy make the clearest core. The run closed with Abduction in 2011, eight years before Singleton's death in 2019. Start with Boyz. Start with Boyz for the debut that earned the Oscar nomination.
