Details

Release year: 2000

Storyline

Avery returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.

Top credits

Directors

John Luessenhop

Writers

Preston A. Whitmore II

Cast

Richard T. Jones — Avery Montgomery
De'aundre Bonds — Dre
Gabriel Casseus — Cashmere
Master P — Clean Up

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Did you know

• De'aundre Bonds was shot four times just days before the film began shooting. He arrived on the set limping and his limp was written into his character.

• In 2001, less than a year after the film's release, De'Aundre Bonds was convicted in real life for exactly the same crime as his character - manslaughter, due to an altercation where Bonds had killed his aunt's boyfriend. Bonds served a ten year sentence at the California Rehabilitation Center Norco and was released in 2011.

• De'aundre Bonds did an interview with DJ Vlad where he mentioned the scene where he tries to fight back against Graffiti's sexual abuse of him, but ends up losing and having to sexually gratify Graffiti anyway was a scene he regretted doing and cried about it afterwards.