"The Wood" is a friends coming of age piece. It revolved around three friends: Roland (Trent Cameron/Taye Diggs), Slim (Duane Finley/Richard T. Jones), and Mike (Sean Nelson/Omar Epps). The movie toggled back and forth between their childhood and the present day; the day of Roland's wedding.
It was a funny movie about all those things that young boys go through while growing up even though this was particular to growing up in Inglewood, CA ("The Wood"). What does that mean? Bloods and Crips, Jheri Curls, and encounters with the cops. Fortunately, it was nothing serious or depressing.
Though Roland was the groom, the story was told first person from Mike. He moved to California from North Carolina while in junior high school and it was Roland and Slim that took a liking to him. Unlike your typical school movies, this one spared us of "the bully," "the nerd," "the cheerleader," and the rest of the high school movie stereotypes. I think that made the movie that much more enjoyable. I was expecting it to be super deep with a lot of tearful scenes, but we were spared that as well. I gotta say, I was pleasantly surprised.
It was a funny movie about all those things that young boys go through while growing up even though this was particular to growing up in Inglewood, CA ("The Wood"). What does that mean? Bloods and Crips, Jheri Curls, and encounters with the cops. Fortunately, it was nothing serious or depressing.
Though Roland was the groom, the story was told first person from Mike. He moved to California from North Carolina while in junior high school and it was Roland and Slim that took a liking to him. Unlike your typical school movies, this one spared us of "the bully," "the nerd," "the cheerleader," and the rest of the high school movie stereotypes. I think that made the movie that much more enjoyable. I was expecting it to be super deep with a lot of tearful scenes, but we were spared that as well. I gotta say, I was pleasantly surprised.