Jody is a mama's boy and when his mom's new ex-con boyfriend moves in the house, Jody becomes very defensive and is continually challenging him. Exploring the Spectrum of ADOS Divestment: Are There Different Tiers of Ethnic Abandonment? This is a film that tells us that black men may all have it hard but it is up to them to make the right choices and think before they act. Baby Boy is a 2001 movie directed by John Singleton as a sort of follow-up to his smash Boyz N the Hood, and while it wasn't as acclaimed, it still received generally positive reviews. Jody : There's this psychiatrist, a lady named Frances Cress Welsing. Jodys mother Juanita finds marijuana in her garden and blames him, who then angrily blames her new boyfriend Melvin, an ex-convict. All rights reserved. Cryrese was going for the Oscar in that movie Did you see how big her man was? She says because of the system of racism in this country, the black man is meant to think of himself as a baby. Crime Drama Romance In South Central L.A., a misguided 20-year-old African-American man, a "baby boy", faces the commitments of real life. Son: Juanita (A.J. He does and uses it to visit his other girlfriend. We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.Robert Musil (18801942), By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.Zelda Fitzgerald (19001948), Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. . He owns his own landscaping business, he has a girlfriend and he has learned to harness his temper and put things in perspective. Jun 29, 2001 1) we don't see him abuse jodys mom 2) the mother of his child keeps the child away. This is the man that Jody should be learning from. Baby Boy (2001) A.J. And look down upon us with forgiveness for the the sins we will have in the future. Copyright Fandango. My broke and unemployed father is putting pressure on me to support my mother and siblings. I think the Marvin character is the most pivotal one in the film. I was amazed at how gentle Jody was with Yvette. Strictly star Motsi Mabuse sued by ex husband, WHITE BIRD (August 2023) New Trailer - Gillian Anderson, Helen Mirren, SWEET TOOTH Season 2 Official Trailer & Discussion thread (April 27, 2023) Netflix, Americans Spend $48 per Month on Video Streaming Services and Half of Those Surveyed Say Thats Too Much, Hank Azaria Admits He Does 'Wonder' About 'The Simpsons' ' Future and Says Whether He'd Ever Leave, Tristan Mack Wilds with his partner and Daughter on the Tamron Hall Show. He's got two children by two different women, Yvette and Peanut . I was reminded of the trailer for "Boyz N the Hood," which seemed to glorify guns and violence, although the movie deplored them. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different women-Yvette and Peanut but still lives with his own mother. Baby Boy - Full Cast & Crew 55 Metascore 2001 2 hr 9 mins Drama, Music R Watchlist Where to Watch A 20-year-old unemployed father of two living at home is challenged to grow up by his mother. Starring: Tyrese Gibson, Snoop Dogg, Ving Rhames. He returns home where Rhames helps him out and a bond is formed between them and after a talk with Rhames realizes he has a good life ahead of him with a great family and he needs to grow up. He's a gangster and seems fairly proud of it, in public anyway. Afterward, Jody and Yvette get married and look forward to the birth of their unborn child. TV Shows. Jody finally decides to be a man, so he moves out and approves of Melvin dating his mother. She takes heat for what she writes. Meanwhile, Jody also continues having affairs with other women, including a young girl named Peanut, with whom he also has a daughter, Lil' Nut. Baby Boy (2001) - Taraji P. Henson as Yvette - IMDb Baby Boy (2001) Taraji P. Henson: Yvette Showing all 14 items Jump to: Photos (4) Quotes (10) Photos Quotes Joe Joe : I want my daddy. And at home, most disturbingly, his mother has a new boyfriend named Melvin (Ving Rhames), who has no patience with him. Yvette answers it, in a way, by stealing back her own car, so the "baby boy" is reduced to riding his childhood bicycle around the neighborhood. Now Singleton, too, dares to take a hard look at his community. Juanita herself is a piece of work, a still-youthful woman who loves her backyard garden and tries patiently, over and over, to cut through Jody's martyrdom and evasion. Im late to this thread but just re watched the movie and saw this. He could probably return to his roots and make some easy money but he knows that there are more important things in life. Eventually, Yvette and Jody reconcile at Sweetpea's house, and Yvette tells Jody about how Rodney tried to rape her in front of JoJo. Singleton comes from the same background as his characters, knows them, sees aspects of himself and his friends in them. That scene will not come as a shock to Mary A. Mitchell, the Sun-Times columnist who has written a series of sad, angry articles about absentee fathers and "man-sharing" in the black community, where drugs, crime and prison have created a shortage of eligible men. Candy Ann Brown as Ms. Herron, Peanut's mother who does not like Jody. He gives them a verbal smackdown and instantly gets jumped by said thugs as a result. Jody (Tyrese Gibson) is a streetwise, but misguided, 20-year old who has fathered two children by two different women, Yvette (Taraji P. Henson) and Peanut (Tamara Bass). Jody doesn't even bother to answer, except to accuse her of not loving him. Melvin comes home, admits to Juanita that he planted it and apologizes.