South Central

South Central from the book “Crips” by Donald Baker, is a compelling and impassioned epic of a triumph of the heart. Bobby Johnson (Glenn Plummer), a young Los Angeles hood emerges from a ten-year prison stint to take responsibility for his life and his son, whom he barely knows, who is leading a harsh and insidious life, like his father, of crime as a member of his father’s former gang. The film spans a decade in Johnson’s life beginning as an angry youth who is used by others to murder and then while in the penitentiary learns to let go of his hatred. This is a serious film with a powerful message. With a new attitude he saves not only himself but his son, whom he rescues before the pattern of malice and hopelessness is repeated again.