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Directed by | Stephen Milburn Anderson |
Written by | Stephen Milburn Anderson Donald Bakeer (novel) |
Produced by | William B. Steakley Oliver Stone Janet Yang |
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Cinematography | Charlie Lieberman |
Edited by | Steven Nevius |
Music by | Tim Truman |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $4 million |
Box office | $1,373,196 |
South Central is a 1992 American crime-drama film, written and directed by Stephen Milburn Anderson. This film is an adaptation of the 1987 fiction novel, The Original South Central L.A. Crips by Donald Bakeer,[1] a former high school teacher in South Central Los Angeles. The film stars Glenn Plummer, Byron Minns and Christian Coleman. South Central was produced by Oliver Stone and released by Warner Bros.
The movie received wide critical acclaim, with many praising Plummer’s performance,[2] and New Yorker Magazine praising it as one of the year's best independent films.[citation needed] Janet Maslin of The New York Times named Anderson in the "Who's Who Among Hot New Filmmakers" in 1992, along with Quentin Tarantino and Tim Robbins.[3]