Boosie Fade Film Club Presents: Baby Boy on 35mm
18 years after its premiere, Boosie Fade Film Club is proud to present John Singleton’s 2001 film, Baby Boy, at the Bell TIFF Lightbox on Thursday, May 9th at 8:45.
An off-shoot of the popular hip-hop and R&B discussion community, Boosie Fade: The Group, Boosie Fade Film Club Boosie Fade Film Club is an online community dedicated to the appreciation and discussion of film and television. This marks Boosie Fade Film Club's eighth screening with TIFF.
“[…]Singleton creates such an intricate and painful sense of what’s going on inside Jody that his haphazard days have more fullness, more life, than most movie characters’ tidy arcs. Gibson gives a broodingly responsive performance as a young man who refuses to grow up because it would mean he’d have to stop fighting himself." — Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly.
Jody (Tyrese Gibson) is a father of two young children by two different mothers, who at 20 years old still lives at home with his own mother Juanita (Adrienne-Joi Johnson). Jody's immature lifestyle and behaviour are challenged by the arrival of Juanita's new boyfriend (Ving Rhames), a hardened ex-con who quickly moves into their home, and the return of Rodney (Snoop Dogg), the gangster ex of Jody's girlfriend Yvette (Taraji P. Henson). Returning to the South Central L.A. stomping grounds of his landmark debut Boyz n the Hood, writer-director John Singleton explores the arrested development of the "baby boys" who are finally forced to confront the reality of their decisions.
Following the film, there will be an after-party with drinks and music.
Advance tickets are strongly encouraged.
Tickets can be purchased here: https://oss.ticketmaster.com/aps/tiff/EN/buy/details/9Y0984T3