Friday (1995)
Two homies, Smokey and Craig, smoke a simpleton dealers weed and attempt to figure an approach to get the money they owe to the dealer by 10 p.m. that same night.
15 January 1971, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
14 June 1968, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
30 October 1970, Brooklyn, New York, USA
27 January 1942, Detroit, Michigan, USA
31 August 1971, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
6 March 1948, New York City, New York, USA
1962, USA
17 July 1969, New York City, New York, USA
July 25, 2010
Co-scriptwriters Ice Cube, DJ Pooh, and director F. Gary Gray find as much humor in well-observed detail as in the oddities of the film's world.
August 21, 2008
A new generation of black talent (director Gray, actors Chris Tucker and Ice Cube) bring verve to this much welcome comedic view of street life in South Central, after mostly crime and drug pictures set there.
May 20, 2003
This is a ruder, cruder version of the hip-hop movie House Party, and it offers a fascinating glimpse at the way street life enters pop culture.
March 02, 2005
It has a certain crude, rambling charm.
January 01, 2000
Dirty, offensive, infantile and may launch a few sanctimonious opinion columns. And I mean that in the nicest way.
July 25, 2008
A crudely made, sometimes funny bit of porchfront humor from the 'hood.
January 01, 2000
Cube is amusing, though he's really playing straight man to Tucker's frenetic and energized Smokey.
January 01, 2000
Writer and director are both only 25 years old -- and provide another example of why it's best to beware of young men with movie cameras.
September 07, 2009
The original installment in the outrageous slacker trilogy starring Ice Cube.
November 06, 2003
Gray's direction is painfully flat, and curiously -- especially for a popular music video director like Gray -- lacking any interesting visual style.
July 06, 2010
Friday has energy, and sass, and the nerve to suggest that the line between tragedy and comedy may be in the bloodshot eye of the beholder.
July 08, 2005
Synthesizes blaxploitation and pot-comedy genres and melds them into a colossus of unending laughs.
