Caine's friends, Stacy and Sharif, try to convince him to accompany them to Kansas, and both his grandfather and Sharif's father warn him that he will either end up dead or imprisoned unless he changes his ways. Caine's fingerprints match those taken from a beer bottle he dropped in the liquor store on the night of the murders, and though he is interrogated by a detective who tricks him by changing the times to confuse him, he soon walks free nonetheless as the police fail to link him. The two men get arrested after a failed car theft attempt. After learning the carjackers' whereabouts, Caine, O-Dog, and their friend A-Wax, an OG, hunt them down and kill them, avenging Harold's death.Ĭaine and O-Dog attempted to steal a car then got caught and bitten by a police dog. Later, Caine and his cousin Harold are carjacked en route from a party, with Caine being wounded and Harold being murdered. O-Dog flaunts the surveillance tape to his admiring friends, greatly annoying Caine. This led to his grandparents raising him in the crime-ridden Jordan Downs housing projects. In a voice-over, Caine reveals that his father Tat, a drug dealer, was killed in a drug deal gone wrong when Caine was 10, and his mother Karen, a heroin addict, died of a drug overdose. After their purchase, the cashier insults and provokes O-Dog by saying, 'I feel sorry for your mother.' Consequently, O-Dog argues with him, fatally shoots both the cashier and his wife, takes the surveillance tape, robs the clerk's wallet and the cash register, and flees with Caine.

It gained notoriety for its scenes of violence, profanity, and drug-related content, and also received critical acclaim for the performances of Turner, Jada Pinkett, and Larenz Tate, the direction, and its realistic portrayal of urban violence and powerful underlying messages.Ĭaine Lawson and his best friend Kevin 'O-Dog' Anderson enter a liquor store to buy some malt liquor, where a Korean cashier and his wife rush them to pay for their drinks and leave, suspecting that they might be trying to steal something. The film is set in Watts and Crenshaw neighborhoods of Los Angeles, and follows the life of Caine Lawson ( Tyrin Turner) and his close friends. Menace II Society (pronounced Menace to Society) is a 1993 American teen drama film directed by the Hughes Brothers in their directorial debut.

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