- Actors: Regina King, Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Joe Torry, Billy Zane
- Directors: John Singleton
- Producers: John Singleton, Steve Nicolaides
- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Release Date: May 8 2001
- Run Time: 109 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 0767821955
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#14,894 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #10 in DVD > Art House & International > African American Cinema > Drama
- #14 in DVD > En français > Action, Aventure, Policier et Thriller > Road movies
- #27 in DVD > Drama > Murder & Mayhem
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Director John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood, Rosewood) made an earnest effort in this, his second, film to say a great deal that is true and relevant about living and loving in a violent, difficult time in American history. Janet Jackson plays a beautician and poet who withdraws into herself after her boyfriend is murdered by gangsters. The late Tupac Shakur plays a postman who tries to get through to her, and the two travel on a course through urban America, connecting with family and community. Singleton has so much on his mind that the film comes out a terrible muddle, but there is a certain integrity peeking through the fog. Shakur makes a startlingly good impression in his film debut, and Jackson strips away her star veneer to play something like a real person--and entirely succeeds. Maya Angelou wrote the poems that pass as those penned by Jackson's character, and she also appears in the film. --Tom Keogh
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Janet's Movie Debut...,
By jercheese "jercheese" (London, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Poetic Justice (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
Poetic Justice focuses on the sisters in the hood.Justice, played by Janet Jackson, is a gum-chewing L.A. beautician who wears attitude like armor. In the prologue, she watches her dealer boyfriend (Q-Tip) get killed at a local drive-in. Two years later, Justice is still in mourning. At work, her boss, Jessie -- the electrifying Tyra Ferrell -- chides Justice for giving up on love. Iesha (Regina King), Justice's sassy girlfriend, tries to set her up with Lucky (Tupac Shakur), a postman who works with Iesha's latest conquest, Chicago (Joe Torry). No time for a man, Justice thinks, but what she does have time for is her poetry, which she recites in voice-over. It's a daring device -- meant to express her inner feelings. Justice's homegirl banter contrasts markedly with such recitations as "Storm clouds are gathering" and "The race of man is suffering." The poetry is the contribution of the celebrated Maya Angelou. Singleton is expert at capturing the way anger closes off feeling. In a road trip that makes up the core of the movie, Justice and Iesha join Lucky and Chicago in their mail truck and travel to Oakland along the Pacific coast. They slowly open up to one another. Very slowly. Self-revelation eludes Iesha. And it comes hard for Justice, which makes her tentative reaching out to Lucky all the more touching. Lucky, forcefully played by Shakur, dreams of a career in music and getting his young daughter, Keisha (Shannon Johnson), away from her free-basing mother. Ultimately, it is Justice's reaching out to Keisha that allows her to give up her anger and move ahead. It seems a simple thing, watching these two working together on a way to do Keisha's hair. But the scene is at the heart of the film's social agenda; ending with Janet's beautiful smile and the emotional ballad "Again".
3.0 out of 5 stars
Poetic Justice,
By A Customer
This review is from: Poetic Justice (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
I was fifteen years old when I first saw this movie when it first came out at the theaters back in the summer of 1993. I liked how the story showed a young black woman healing from the hurt and pain of losing her boyfriend, and how she wrote poetry to help her get through her pain. I thought that the poetry was really good. But the real reason why I give this movie three stars is because there was too much profanity and all the arguing and bickering that went on in the movie. I felt like all of that wasn't necessary for the movie. "Boyz N The Hood" will always be the #1 movie from John Singleton.
3.0 out of 5 stars
janet's acting career,
By A Customer
This review is from: Poetic Justice (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
Many kids today forget that before janet became a musician, she was an actress who starred in sitcoms and the jacksons tv show doing skits. If they had known, they would have seen that she had acting skills back then, but this movie is not really representative of it though it's not a bad film. I guess the role was a new kind of role for janet and she has said before that cussing didn't come her naturally back then, and it shows. But if you want a romantic comedy with a street style to watch, you just may want to check this out.
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