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Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
1996
· Movie
· 89 min
C
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3270
- IMDb #3197
- Google retired #497
- Rotten Tomatoes #3364
- Metacritic #2790
- Letterboxd #3057
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4654
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1648
- Metacritic Critics #3158
- Metacritic Audience #2047
- Kinopoisk #1938
- AlloCiné #5034
- Trakt #3012
Every rating
32–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 32, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 42, everyone else 70.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?
Details
- Director
- Paris Barclay
- Writers
- Marlon Wayans, Phil Beauman, Shawn Wayans
- Studio
- Ivory Way Productions, Island Pictures
- Released
- 12 January 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $3.8M
- Box office
- $20.9M
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