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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Hangin' With The Homeboys (1991)

Slice-of-life story following four friends during the course of night out on the town: Willie (Doug E. Doug), Tom (Mario Joyner), Johnny (John Leguizamo), and Fernando (Nestor Serrano). The movie was marketed as a free-wheelin' comedy, but actually is a lot more serious in nature. Each of the guys has his own issues to work through and correct. Willie appears to just drift through life, while Tom works a dead-end phone job while trying to make it as an actor. Fernando, a Puerto Rican, calls himself Vinnie and pretends he is Italian. Johnny is an academically smart kid who doesn't seem to have enough motivation to go to college and leave his grocery store clerk job behind.

The story bogs down from time to time, but has some nice touches in terms of characters. It is also nice to see young Latino and African-American males in a film where they aren't on the wrong side of the law. Doug E. Doug began his career as a stand-up comic. He was a regular on "Cosby".

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