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Baby Boy is a 2001 American coming-of-age hood drama film directed, written and produced by John Singleton, and starring Tyrese Gibson, Snoop Dogg, Ving Rhames, Omar Gooding, A.J. Johnson and Taraji P. Henson. The film follows Joseph "Jody" Summers (Gibson), a 20-year-old bike mechanic as he lives and learns in his everyday life in South Central Los Angeles.
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South Central, troubled section of Los Angeles, served as an inspiration for John Singleton for his celebrated 1991 directorial debut *Boyz N the Hood*. Ten years later Singleton returned to the same setting with his drama *Baby Boy*. The protagonist, played by Tyrese Gibson, is Joseph “Jody” Summers is 20-year African American man, who like so many of his peers, has a lot of free time he uses it in not always the m…More
