Check out the trailer for 1993’s Poetic Justice. Watch Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRiUMij52PY This film was selected by AAFCA member, Lisa Kennedy, as part of the series, Sony Pictures Action Presents: A Roundtable Discussion with the African American Film Critics Association. Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtS3b7EJCpfU0kXP9FV7uBC8Olsq0cxKk POETIC JUSTICE REVIEW BY LISA KENNEDY Writer-director John Singleton followed his groundbreaking debut “Boyz N the Hood” with this 1993 romantic drama set in South Central that paired popular music quasars Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur as Justice and Lucky. She’s a hairdresser who lost her first love to violence; he’s a postal worker with a little daughter. Far from meeting cute, the two meet antagonistic. Then they hit the road -- L.A. to Oakland along the Pacific Coast Highway -- with her bestie Iesha (Regina King) and his co-worker Chicago (Joe Torry), a frisky and volatile couple. The blemish here is the tenor of its battle of the sexes, which takes cues from the tiresome misogyny of the rap of the time. It hasn’t aged well. Justice and Lucky’s relationship feels forced and the trauma inflicted to draw them close overstated. Besides King’s turn as loyal if reckless Iesha (she had a smaller role in “Boyz”), what remains memorable is the Maya Angelou aura: the poet makes a cameo as an auntie pontificating on the morals of young folks and the words that make Justice so poetic are hers. ABOUT POETIC JUSTICE Superstar Janet Jackson makes her stunning film debut in director John Singleton's (Boyz N the Hood) street-smart love story, POETIC JUSTICE. A mismatched pair pushed together for a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland, Justice (Jackson) and Lucky (Tupac Shakur) have only one thing in common: they can't stand each other. But as their friends Iesha and Chicago (Regina King and Joe Torry) fight - and makeup - in the back of the van, Justice, and Lucky find themselves reluctantly drawn together before being confronted once again by the shocking violence they thought they'd left behind. Featuring the music of Naughty by Nature and Tony! Toni! Tone! and the poetry of Maya Angelou. Subscribe to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/user/sonypictureshomeent #PoeticJustice #Sony #Trailer #Tupac #JanetJackson #JohnSingleton