Friday (film)

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Friday
Movie Poster
Directed by	F. Gary Gray
Produced by	Patricia Charbonnet
Written by	Ice Cube DJ Pooh
Starring	Ice Cube Chris Tucker Nia Long Tiny Lister jr. John Witherspoon
Music by	Ice Cube
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	April 26, 1995
Running time	91 min.
Language	English
Budget	$3.5 million (estimated)
Followed by	Next Friday
IMDb profile

Friday is a 1995 comedy film set in South Central (now South) Los Angeles, California, where star Ice Cube grew up, and directed by F. Gary Gray. The story revolves around 16 hours in the lives of two best friends: Smokey (Chris Tucker) and Craig (Ice Cube). The day after Craig loses his job, he and Smokey go through a series of misadventures on their quest to find enough money to pay off a notorious drug dealer, Big Worm (Faizon Love), who has threatened to kill them unless they pay by 10pm.

John Witherspoon, Bernie Mac, Anna Maria Horsford, Nia Long, Paula Jai Parker, Regina King, Tom Lister Jr. and Faizon Love (Bebe's Kids) also star.

The film is widely known as one of basketball all-star Michael Jordan's all-time favorite movies, and has become a cult classic in the black community. It is also known for making the line "you got knocked the fuck out!", which is said multiple times during the movie, a pop culture reference.

Craig and Smokey in a scene from Friday.

Most of this movie was filmed in the southern-most part of South Central Los Angeles. The street that Smokey, Craig, and most of the other characters lived on is 126th Street in Los Angeles, between Normandie Ave. and Halldale Ave. Aside from some of the houses being painted different colors since the movie was filmed, the street presently looks identical to how it looked in the movie. The liquor store that they went to, where A.J. Johnson portrayed a crackhead, is located in Gardena, California, on 135th Street.

Two sequels, Next Friday and Friday After Next, have been released, but have been met with mixed reviews.

1 Cast
2 Reception
3 Trivia
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Cast

Ice Cube- Craig
Chris Tucker- Smokey
Maninder Sihra - Bossman
Nia Long- Debbie
Tiny Lister Jr.- Deebo
John Witherspoon- Willie Jones
Anna Maria Horsford- Betty Jones
Regina King- Dana
Paula Jai Parker- Joi
Faizon Love- Big Worm
DJ Pooh- Red
Angela Means- Felisha
Vickilyn Reynolds- Joann
Ronn Riser- Stanley
Kathleen Bradley- Mrs. Parker
Tony Cox- Mr. Parker
Anthony Johnson- Ezell
Demetrius Navarro- Hector
Jason Bose Smith- Lil Chris
Bernie Mac- Pastor Clever
Yvette Wilson- Rita
WC - Shooter
Renaldo Rey- Red's Father
Michael Clarke Duncan - Uncredited Dice Player
Meagan Good - Kid #2

[edit] Reception

The movie was well-received by critics, earning 80% favorable reviews according to RottenTomatoes.com .[1]

[edit] Trivia

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The movie was filmed in 20 days.
The license plate on Smokey's car is "FCK IT".
The clothes that Ice Cube wears in the first scene of this movie are exactly the same as the ones that his character wore in the final scene of Boyz N The Hood.
F. Gary Gray was seen in the store where Ezell fell and quoted "My neck, my back, my neck and my back."
The neighborhood where the film takes place is the same street where the film's director, F. Gary Gray, grew up in South Central, Los Angeles. Principal houses that were used for filming were houses of old friends of the director. The scene where Deebo punches Red into the air is the house that F. Gary Gray grew up in.
John Witherspoon and Anna Maria Horsford later worked together on the WB Network sitcom The Wayans Bros.
John Witherspoon and Regina King are working together again in the animated series called The Boondocks.
A young Meagan Good has a small part as a kid at Big Worm's ice-cream truck. She is credited as Kid #2, is wearing a blue baseball cap and says "I hate him" as Big Worm drives away.
A then-unknown Michael Clarke Duncan makes a small uncredited appearance as a Craps player to the left of Smokey in the scene where Deebo punches Red in the air.
There is a picture above Craig's bed that has basketball players standing on each other on the foul line. This picture was also used in one of the episodes of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which Nia Long starred in.
Ice Cube's Westside Connection partner, W.C., does an appearance in the end of the movie as one of the shooters that try to kill Craig and Smokey. He is credited as William L. Calhoun Jr.
On Jon Favreau's show Dinner for Five, guest Faizon Love recalls attending the premiere with Chris Tucker. While watching the film, Tucker allegedly said "that's fucked up" and Love admitted his displeasure with the way the film was handled in post-production.
On one episode of The Boondocks, Huey explains his plan for helping a friend escape prison. In the plan, he says that his grandfather (who is played by John Witherspoon, the father in Friday) will drive him to the prison and that Granddad will just sit in the car and watch Friday. John Witherspoon quotes himself from Friday such as "Pig feet, how'd they get that?" and "It's yo' ass mistah post man!".