After 20 Years, “Friday” Is (Still) The Most Important Film Ever Made About The Hood
The stars and the director of this genre-busting sleeper hit — which is returning to theaters for one day to celebrate its 20th anniversary — talk to BuzzFeed News about why it still resonates. “I know you don’t smoke weed. I know this. But I’m gonna get you high today. 'Cuz it’s Friday, you ain’t got no job, and you ain’t got shit to do!”
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The telling moment happened nearly every morning of the 20-day shoot some 20 years ago.
A neighbor — unhappy in spite of the $100 he was paid daily for the inconvenience of an Ice Cube movie being shot on his block — tried to disrupt the process in the most obnoxious of ways. He’d belt out Al Green tunes off-key and loudly every time director F. Gary Gray would call for action. And several times, he’d yell out to anyone within earshot, “This ain’t no real movie anyway. 'Cuz they wouldn’t be shooting it over here.”
He was incorrect, of course — Friday , the stoner comedy with a limited release and an even more limited budget, grossed more than $27 million at the box office, and had a bigger life in video and DVD rentals and purchases in the years since. But his drunken sentiment was dripping with genuineness. And it wasn’t lost on anyone.
Friday is about almost nothing — refreshing, really, after a string of movies set in South Central, Los Angeles, that focused only on strife. But in this movie, Craig (Ice Cube) gets fired on his day off — and made fun of because of it all throughout. And his best friend Smokey (Chris Tucker) is a small-time weed dealer who’d rather smoke it than distribute it. The two encounter a neighborhood filled with some over-the-top characters, and there’s laughter to be found where we hadn’t exactly seen before.
John Witherspoon
“The Crips — they wear the blue, right? — they would come every day and watch us shoot,” actor John Witherspoon, who plays Craig's father in the film, recalls in an interview with BuzzFeed News. “They had bandanas over their faces, but would want us to take pictures with their kids. They were so nice to us.”
A native son was documenting their neighborhood on one of its better, less violent days, and this was noteworthy. Clearly, the pride of the L.A.-based notorious gang was undeniable; they came to set daily, engaged with the actors, and wanted their children to witness the energy building around a film almost no one wanted to make.
Friday , released on April 26, 1995, was a bona fide laugh-out-loud comedy, and was a stark departure from the work Ice Cube had done before. It was a different twist from his acting debut in 1991’s Boyz n the Hood , a film set in South Central, L.A., that was wholly inspired by the music his rap group NWA — Niggaz With Attitude, for the ill-informed — created in the 1980s. (In fact, NWA member Eazy-E’s solo debut was a track called “Boyz-n-the-Hood,” which was co-penned by Ice Cube.) Friday , which has established quite the cult-like following since its release 20 years ago this month, will screen in nearly 400 theaters for one night only: 4/20.
This comedy was Ice Cube’s passion project, so much so that he paid the actors — most everyone remembers it being a payday of $5,000 apiece — out of his own pocket. This was the rapper’s chance to, in a way, mute some of the narrative that he was instrumental in giving the world. Through his music, he told street tales of everyday black and brown people living in one of L.A.’s most violent neighborhoods, and the scene was unpleasant. NWA touched on South Central street life (“Gangsta, Gangsta”), police brutality (“Fuck tha Police”), and censorship (“Express Yourself”) — and their music resonated in urban areas all across the country.
The hood and all of its faults (as presented in dramatic fashion, often with someone beloved dying violently in the end) had been a box office moneymaker: Menace II Society earned nearly $28 million in theaters, and Boyz earned almost $58 million and also was nominated for an Oscar. But in Friday — which Cube co-wrote with his longtime friend DJ Pooh — the hood wasn’t so unnerving. As bleak a place as it could be, there was much humor to be found.
“People thought how we grew up was like growing up in a war zone,” Ice Cube says in an interview with BuzzFeed News. "After movies like Boyz n the Hood , Menace II Society , and South Central came out, everybody thought the way we grew up was the worst thing ever in life. I didn’t see it that way. Of course it was rough, but we had fun with everything. We tried to laugh at things that most people would cry at.”
Cube and his writing partner found ways to create a continuous 91-minute-long joke about two dudes sitting on a porch, taking in their surroundings. In the process, they poked fun at some of the nuances that happen in the hood — the permed-out dope man selling bud from an ice cream truck, a horny, weed-smoking preacher who gets naked with a married woman while her husband’s away, and the hilarious neighborhood crackhead, a natural-born swindler. And all of the incidents — kids knocking over trash cans, ornery neighbors who don’t want you to step on their manicured lawns, and the day the resident bully got his ass beat — actually happened on the block where Cube grew up.
F. Gary Gray
Gray — a noted music video director at the time — had been friends with Cube since the early '90s. Cube knew Gray was itching to do a feature film, and after collaborating on the rapper’s seminal solo video “ Good Day, ” a song that ironically describes in rich detail a day in South Central that goes off without a hitch, he approached the director with his idea of Friday . That 1992 music video, in some ways, was an early seed to Friday itself, playing off the idea of an unremarkable day in a neighborhood that’s so rich in conflict. “Plus nobody I know got killed in South Central, L.A. / Today was a good day,” Cube raps in what’s perhaps his most well-known hit.
“I was a young kid at the time, really looking to break into the business,” Gray says. "Cube described Friday, and that it was a story about where I grew up and where he grew up and how much fun it was — dangerous at the same time — but fun. I thought it was a great idea. We wanted to show a different side.”
From the rapper’s limited film experience at the time — Cube barely had two John Singleton movies ( Boyz and Higher Learning , the latter of which was released a few months before Friday ) under his belt — he was convinced that skirting the traditional Hollywood studio system was the way to go.
“We knew Hollywood had never seen this kind of comedy,” Cube says. "I was like, ‘Yo, I don’t want to [go] in there and have all these people try to explain what this is. I’d rather just go do it.'"
The rapper didn’t think a film that found comedy in shit-talking crackheads and dayside toking would get the Hollywood thumbs-up. Turns out, he was a bit off the mark. New Line Cinema — which released Menace in 1993 and a trio of House Party movies — learned of the project, and wrote a check (it ultimately cost about $3.5 million to make; Cube says they contributed about $1 million and distributed the film).
“They were like, 'We want to make this movie. How much do you all need?'” Cube recalls. “We didn’t have distribution, so we was like, ‘Yo, they’re feeling it, they’re going to let us go do the movie we want to do with no interference, and they’re going to give us the money and they’re going to put it out.’ It was a perfect match for that movie.”
New Line did have some casting suggestions. Though the rapper easily slid into the role of Craig, the still-living-at-home-with-mom-and-dad twentysomething who was fired for (maybe) stealing boxes; the studio couldn’t get behind his writing partner DJ Pooh who was to portray Smokey, saying he wasn’t experienced enough. The studio wanted a stronger name to take on Craig’s carefree best friend, the irresponsible pothead. He’d be the source of comedy for Craig, who didn’t smoke, but was stuck trying to figure out how to navigate a day in his hood.
Pooh ultimately took on a smaller role (the misfortunate Red, who is a target of Tommy “Tiny” Lister’s Deebo, the big bully), and Cube suggested that the studio hire Chris Tucker for the lead role, considering that the comic was such a fan favorite on HBO’s ‘90s stand-up series Def Comedy Jam .
“New Line was like, ‘Who?’" remembers Ice Cube. "And I was like, ‘Y’all just did a movie with him!’ They gave him a small, little part in House Party 3, and they underused him."
The Tucker casting was key: He was a 22-year-old, slim, goofy rule-breaker to Cube’s straight man. In Friday , Tucker debuted his distinct higher-pitched, comedic voice, the same ones that often killed on those Def Comedy Jam stages. Peppered throughout the movie were other comedians who’d graced the HBO stage: Faizon Love, the late Bernie Mac, and Angela Means all took on neighborhood characters who resonated in major ways with audiences. Having those comics on the set of a film being shot by a newbie director (whose previous experience was making music videos) meant that all types of ridiculousness ensued. And for some cast members, marijuana was the great — and paralleling – unifier.
Faizon Love
“Chris and I used to share a car, a Jetta,” Love says in an interview with BuzzFeed News. “We would smoke out in the car in the mornings. Chris was like my little brother. We would always work on scenes together, go to the comedy club ... we were always fucking around. Back then, we smoked weed every day. Gary Gray hated me and Chris because we would talk so much shit. He was like the principal, and we were like the bad kids. Every day, we would get fired. Chris got fired. I got fired.”
But they kept coming back, largely because they were able to bring the right comedic tone to a film that would heavily rely on ad-libbing. Gray says Cube was so open to the changes of the script, of which about 65% was written and about 35% improvised. This worked quite well, considering that the cast was stacked with so many recognizable black stand-up comics.
“Their ability to improvise and contribute creatively made the movie a classic," Gray says. "There’s no Friday without Chris Tucker and Faizon Love and what they contributed. Cube and DJ Pooh did a great job with the script but you can never dream up on your laptop the things that some of these comedians would come up with on the spot.”
Gray says he recently discovered 16 hours of behind-the-scenes footage that has never been seen before, including rehearsal moments where some of the more famous lines were created.
“I found the first moments of ‘Bye Felisha,’ ‘You got knocked the fuck out,’ — all this stuff that happened in our rehearsal out of improv,” Gray says. “That’s the brilliance of the actors. It’s also the brilliance of Cube not being precious with his words — he said the best idea and the funniest idea is the idea. I think with that approach, we led with our hearts and it paid off.”
Love says he helped to round out his hair-curler-wearing drug-dealer character Big Worm — who sold drugs from an ice cream truck — and pulled traits from a guy named Bird from one of the neighborhoods he grew up in. When he auditioned for the role, he showed up with a joint and helped to create one of the film’s more memorable lines — “Playing with my money is like playing with my emotions” — partly from a soul song he’d heard earlier that morning.
“But the ice cream truck?” he adds. "That’s some other shit."
The film had a small release — worldwide it played in only 883 theaters — but grossed $28 million. And the life it’s had in VHS rentals and later DVD sales was so impressive that it spawned off sequels — Next Friday , which earned more than $57 million in 2000 and introduced comic Mike Epps; Friday After Next , which brought in about $33 million; and Friday: The Animated Series, a short-lived cartoon series that aired on MTV 2 in 2007–2008. No one in the cast — save for maybe Cube himself — had much faith that this film would hit the way it has. It was mostly something to do while awaiting the next gig: quick money for a film that featured a ton of comedians. As insular as it was in subject matter, place, and time, the comedy has translated in a major way, and has connected across audiences with fans all over the world.
“You know those people,” says Regina King, who played Cube’s sister, Dana (and who also co-starred in Boyz herself). "You are those people. And I think that as great as Boyz in the Hood was, and Menace II Society was, they only reference a small part of a neighborhood life. “I don’t want to say 'hood.' I want to say 'neighborhood.' Because there’s a difference. When you reference the hood, it sounds like it’s something that people that are not black or Latino don’t experience. People that are white look at that movie and know those characters. They have an Asian Smokey. There is a white Craig. That exists.”
Love says he was shooting another movie in 2001 on location in South Africa when he saw a guy craning his neck to get a good look at him. “We see this guy walking. He has little ratty-ass trousers on and no shoes and a stick. He's beating a satchel. And he looked thirsty ... and I was like, ‘Get him some water.’ And he looked at me, and he pointed, and he said, ‘Big Worm?’ And I said, ‘Oh, fuck no!’ Out of this bush, this no-having-shoes-motherfucker … he ain't got no shoes! Where did he see this movie?"
But that’s how strongly the film has resonated with viewers. Two decades after its initial release, and the pop culture hold is prevalent: Quotes from the movie have filtered into contemporary lexicon.
Blame the “ Bye Felisha ” wave on a small but hilarious scene where Craig dismisses Means, the neighborhood beggar with those two words after unsuccessfully asking Tucker to “borrow his car right quick.” The comedic power lies in a bunch of tiny scenes like that one; they live on YouTube, benefit from multiple viewings on cable outlets (while fans live tweet it), and get brought back to life by contemporary reality-TV stars who quote the film and connect it with a younger audience who didn’t get it the first go-round.
“I thought maybe four people would see it,” King says. “It was one of those movies where in between scenes we all sat on the porch and talked shit. Everybody. The director. The props person. The DP. Everybody.”
Anna Maria Horsford
Anna Maria Horsford, who played Craig and Dana’s mom Betty, enjoyed a successful run starring in NBC’s Amen as Thelma Frye, and in the early ‘90s, The WB sitcom The Wayans Bro s. before appearing in the movie. But she said that her role in Friday — a straight-no-chaser but lovable character who wanted her kids to excel in school or at work — is what she’s most recognized for.
“Every other person who I run into says, ‘Excuse me? Are you Craig's mother?’" Horsford says. "It's such an identifiable stamp. There was a middle-class white woman who saw me at the airport, and she said, ‘You look familiar.’ And then she turned around, and … it hit her. It was Friday . I said, ‘Did your children force you, sit you down so you could see it?’ She said, ‘No! I loved it. I watched it on my own.'"
Horsford also points out how, unlike other films that focused on the same types of neighborhoods, this was the first one to feature a traditional nuclear family — a mother and a father in the household. In other films, we'd largely see narratives about single moms in economic strife and a father nowhere to be found, let alone ever married. The image alone was stark by comparison.
A gripping scene in Boyz comes as a single mother curses at her 10-year-old son (the older version of him, ironically played by Cube), saying: “You ain't shit. You just like your daddy. You don't do shit, and you never gonna amount to shit. All you do is eat, sleep, and shit.” Her words stung, and the subtext was obvious. That film in particular made many statements; one poignant one challenged the lack of black fathers' influence on their children by way of Laurence Fishburne’s very involved character.
That relationship between Fishburne’s dad and Cuba Gooding Jr.’s son was important, but it was wrapped in seriousness: STD talks, police abuse, gentrification, and gang violence. There was very little room for fun, nor was there an example of a nuclear family to be found in that very meaningful film. That’s where Friday differs. It’s a comedy and it subtly introduces something that we’ve rarely seen films set in an urban neighborhood.
“It shows a family and a father who cares about his son,” Witherspoon says. "And his daughter. And his wife. I don’t think we saw that in pictures before, A really dominating father? Or a mother running her family? But no, this was a family.”
Todd Boyd, a professor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts as well as screenwriter and producer of the 1999 coming-of-age drama The Wood , says that Friday didn't just add an element of comedy to depictions of everyday life in black neighborhoods, it spawned a new genre — the hood comedy.
“The film demonstrated that black life was not all drugs, violence, dysfunction, and pathology — yet instead of offering a Cosby Show -like fantasy, Friday put these issues in context, finding humor in the everyday lives of regular black people,” he explains. “Since the 1970s, Hollywood has always looked favorably upon low-budget black films that produce high profit margins at the box office. Friday expanded the representation of the hood into the realm of comedy and achieved box office success at the same time.”
Other hood comedies that followed include: 1996’s satire Don’t Be a Menace While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood , 1998’s The Player’s Club (Cube wrote and directed it), 2001’s How High , and 2002’s Barbershop , the latter of which Cube starred in.
Friday film helped to launch many careers — Gray is now a seasoned feature film director who has credits including The Italian Job , Law Abiding Citizen, and as fate would have it, in the upcoming NWA biopic, Straight Outta Compto n; King has co-starred in many films since (playing next to both Gooding Jr. and Jamie Foxx in their Oscar-winning roles in Jerry Maguire and Ray ), and Cube has created quite the TV and film production enterprise — he co-produced and co-starred in last year’s Ride Along , which grossed nearly $135 million domestically.
“I wish I could tell you that we knew it would have the legs that it’s had,” Gray says. "We just followed our instincts: Is it funny? Is it relevant? Is it real? Is it true? We didn’t know enough to be politically correct — I think that’s part of the charm. We were all just young guys out there looking to laugh. We wanted to inject a little bit of meaning in this entertainment. For some reason, it stood out.”
Friday ultimately was a star-making role for Tucker — he later went on to co-star in a trilogy of Rush Hour films, which came with hefty paydays and grossed more than half a billion dollars domestically — and it’s a key reason why a long-awaited Friday sequel with all of the original actors coming back hasn’t happened yet. Next Friday and Friday After Next fared well but were missing were a lot of original characters that everyone fell in love with, namely Tucker.
“New Line won’t cut the check. So we’re in a holding pattern,” Cube says of the possible new Friday film, which he has written. “I’m depressed about it. Ain’t nobody going to be more pissed off than me. Because it’s ridiculous. It don’t make sense. I’ve got to do it with the company that the movie was released on. So until they come to their senses, we can’t be funny.”
Until then, fans will have to stick to wearing their DVDs out and tweeting favorite lines from the film as if it were released 20 days ago.
“People are still into it like it just came out last week,” says Ice Cube. "It’s a movie that never gets old for a lot of people. A good movie can always be discovered, no matter how old it is or how low the budget is. It’s a great movie, and people will continue to discover it in their own way.”
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Ice Cube's cult classic uses strong language; sexism, drugs.
Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Friday is a cult classic written by and starring the rapper Ice Cube. Expect lots of drugs and language: One major character is a pot dealer who smokes his own inventory all day; this leads to a shootout, but an even more prominent scene is the brutal, climactic fistfight between…
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Constant language includes "s--t" and "f--k" and all their permutations, plus th
No one is portrayed as addicted to drugs, and not everyone does drugs, but one o
There's a knockdown, drag-out fist-fight that feels absolutely real; each blow l
No nudity or on-screen sex, but characters talk about sex a great deal. There's
Several mentions of Kool-Aid.
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There are glimpses of goodness, but in general, the overall behavior of the peop
It could be argued that Craig is something of a positive role model, even though
Constant language includes "s--t" and "f--k" and all their permutations, plus the "N" word, "p---y," "t-ts," "ass," "bastard," "hell," "damn," "god," "goddamn," and "bitch." There are bathroom jokes, sex jokes, drug jokes, and various other off-color jokes.
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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking
No one is portrayed as addicted to drugs, and not everyone does drugs, but one of the two main characters is a drug dealer and smokes pot throughout the entire movie. In one sequence, he encourages Craig to try it. There's a reference to angel dust, and a minor character is referred to as a "crackhead." A character's mother sends him out for cigarettes.
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Violence & Scariness
There's a knockdown, drag-out fist-fight that feels absolutely real; each blow lands with painful impact, and the fight incorporates bricks, boards, and garbage cans. Besides that, there's a shootout sequence that feels more movie-ish. Craig keeps a gun in his room, and there's talk about how much of a "man" it makes him. Knives are pulled. Otherwise, there are threats and plenty of characters treating each other with disrespect.
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Sex, Romance & Nudity
No nudity or on-screen sex, but characters talk about sex a great deal. There's some flirting and several women in revealing clothing, notably a woman who is seen watering her front yard (in slow motion) while wearing tiny cut-off shorts and a tank top. Two characters are seen sleeping in bed together, and there's a suggestion of off-screen sex as one character goes inside her house with the intention of seducing her.
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Positive messages.
There are glimpses of goodness, but in general, the overall behavior of the people in this neighborhood is not so great. Characters gossip about one another and laugh at each other's misfortunes. Characters are drug dealers and shoot guns at one another. (Knives are also pulled.) Characters steal from one another. A bully terrorizes the neighborhood. Some characters smoke pot. Some characters "sleep around." On the plus side, though the bad behavior is played for laughs, it's not celebrated. Some characters with good intentions are rewarded, and some bad characters learn their lessons.
Positive Role Models
It could be argued that Craig is something of a positive role model, even though he uses foul language, smokes pot, gossips, and ogles women. He starts the movie as a passive, helpless character, lectured by parents, henpecked by a horrible girlfriend, and losing his job on his day off (!). By the end of the film, he learns to be active, to stand up for himself, and to do it without the aid of the gun he keeps in his room. He even stands up to the neighborhood bully. Moreover, he doesn't do drugs, and when he tries some pot once in the film, he instantly regrets it.
Parents need to know that Friday is a cult classic written by and starring the rapper Ice Cube . Expect lots of drugs and language: One major character is a pot dealer who smokes his own inventory all day; this leads to a shootout, but an even more prominent scene is the brutal, climactic fistfight between Cube and the block's mountain-sized bully. The movie also leans on misogyny; women are mostly either sexual objects or objects of scornful humor. Characters fill the air with sex talk, drug talk, and non-stop profanity, as well as insults of a racial and sexual nature. But aside from all this, Friday is genuinely interesting in many ways, and is more culturally and historically notable than it may appear. It spawned two sequels and an animated TV series. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .
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Based on 9 parent reviews
Good movie and very funny, Fine for mature 9-10 year olds
What's the story.
It's FRIDAY and Craig ( Ice Cube ) has just lost his job—on his day off, too. Now he has nothing to do but hang out with his friend, a drug dealer named "Smokey" ( Chris Tucker ). As the day passes, they gossip about the kooky neighbors, avoid the block bully Deebo ("Tiny" Lister), and smoke a little pot. Eventually, they must come up with $200 to pay back Smokey's boss, or else face his retribution. Meanwhile, Craig has developed a little crush on Debbie ( Nia Long ) and finds he must stand up to Deebo to protect her honor. Can Craig learn how to be a "man" without resorting to using the gun he has hidden in his room?
Is It Any Good?
Directed by F. Gary Gray ( The Italian Job ), this film is fairly unique in the history of African American cinema. Though Friday depends partly on toilet humor, it doesn't have the same hyped-up, eager-to-please vibe of many other comedies. It's laid-back with a refreshing lack of plot mechanics. This, plus the one-day, one-neighborhood setting, allows the characters to flourish in a more organic way. In a way, it's almost on a level with such classics as Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (1977) and Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989).
That said, the movie also comes with a troublesome air of misogyny. Most of the women characters are seen either as sexual objects or objects of scornful humor. It's also not particularly laugh-out-loud funny, as most of the humor is at the expense of other characters. In general, the overall behavior of these characters isn't so great, but there are still glimpses of goodness that make it appealing and worthwhile for older teens.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the drugs in the characters' lives. Did Craig learn his lesson after he smoked pot? Should he have given in when he didn't want to? Does Smokey learn any lesson about his drug use?
How did the film's violence make you feel? Was it thrilling, or did it have a harsher effect?
How did you feel about the women in the film? Did any of them seem like strong people, or were they stereotypes ?
Movie Details
- In theaters : April 26, 1995
- On DVD or streaming : March 2, 1999
- Cast : Chris Tucker , Ice Cube , Nia Long
- Director : F. Gary Gray
- Inclusion Information : Black directors, Black actors, Female actors
- Studio : New Line
- Genre : Comedy
- Run time : 91 minutes
- MPAA rating : R
- MPAA explanation : pervasive strong language and drug use, and for a brutal fight
- Last updated : March 5, 2024
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"You Ain't Got to Lie, Craig!": All of the 'Friday' Movies Ranked From Best To Worst
The 'Friday' franchise is responsible for some of the funniest moments in Black culture -— but which one is the best? Here is a ranking of all three installments.
Jan. 10 2024, Published 11:45 a.m. ET
Rapper Ice Cube’s beloved Friday movie franchise started in 1995 but it is still a major part of hip-hop culture nearly two decades after the series began.
The first chapter of the film trilogy started with Friday , starring Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, John Witherspoon, and Tommy Lister Jr.
Directed by F. Gary Gray and written by Cube and DJ Pooh , the film follows the story of two friends – Craig Jones (played by Ice Cube) and Smokey (played by Chris Tucker) – who live in South Central Los Angeles.
The movie takes place over the course of 24 hours. Craig has just been fired from his job and is dealing with the pressure of unpaid rent, while Smokey is facing threats from a drug dealer after accidentally smoking his weed.
Upon its release, the movie was a huge success. With a $3.5 million budget, the film grossed more than $27 million domestically – and spawned two sequels. As we reflect on the classic franchise, it's time to rank the films from best to worst – but we truly love them all.
1. ‘Next Friday’ (2000)
Ice Cube and Mike Epps appear in 'Next Friday'
The first, and arguably the best sequel, in the Friday franchise is Next Friday. The movie was released in 2000 and became an instant success. According to Box Office Mojo , Next Friday raked in more than $14 million during its opening weekend – the most for any movie in the franchise.
The film sees Cube reprise his role as Craig, with Mike Epps joining the cast as Craig’s cousin, Day-Day. Following the events in Friday , Craig is forced to leave his South Central neighborhood to find solace with his uncle and cousin in Rancho Cucamonga.
In addition to being the biggest commercial success in the franchise, Next Friday helped launch Mike Epps’ career.
2. ‘Friday After Next’ (2002)
Ice Cube and his team wasted no time creating the third Friday movie, Friday After Next , which was released in 2002.
In this installment, Craig and Day-Day find themselves on a holiday-themed adventure. The pair have moved out of their family home and are living together in a questionable apartment complex.
While Friday After Next failed to achieve the same commercial success as Next Friday , it is still regarded as one of the most beloved Christmas movies of the early 2000s.
The film also introduced Katt Williams to the mainstream media. The comedian starred as Money Mike in the film, securing the role Rickey Smiley initially auditioned for.
The two comedians got into an online spat over the film in January of 2024 after Katt slammed Rickey for suggesting that he stole the part from him. Cube has since confirmed that Rickey did audition for the role, but it was offered to Katt.
3. ‘Friday’ (1995)
Ice Cube and Chris Tucker appear in 'Friday'
Although the original film finds itself last on the list in terms of commercial success, Friday is far from a bad film. With its witty humor and memorable one-liners, the original Friday remains a cult classic and the pinnacle of the series.
Despite producing a slate of memes and pop culture moments, the movie had the weakest performance at the box office . That said, at the time of its release, it was only available in 883 theatres. For comparison, Next Friday and Friday After Next , were screened in more than 1,000 theaters nationwide.
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On April 26, 1995, New Line Cinema unveiled Ice Cube's screenwriting debut in theaters.
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On April 26, 1995, New Line Cinema unveiled Ice Cube’s screenwriting debut Friday in theaters, where the comedy grossed $27 million domestically and launched two sequels. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below:
Something of a lighthearted Boyz N the Hood , Friday is a scrappy and irreverent comedy marking the screenwriting debut of rapper-actor Ice Cube (along with DJ Pooh) and the feature directorial debut of busy music video helmer [F.] Gary Gray.
A colorful take on a day in the life of a South Central neighborhood, the agreeable result may prove a little too benign for those looking for a little action, but Friday should still translate into a tidy payday for New Line, particularly in urban ‘hoods.
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Ice Cube also does on-camera duty as the freshly unemployed Craig Jones, who lives at home with his mother (Anna Maria Horsford), dog catcher father (John Witherspoon) and taunting sister (Regina King).
Despite constant threats from his parents, Craig decides to put off the job search in favor of hanging at his house, taking in the day’s local sights and sounds along with his perpetually high pal Smokey (Chris Tucker).
Among the parade of eccentrics who pass by their porch perch are Deebo (Tiny “Zeus” Lister), the overgrown neighborhood bully; Big Worm (Faizon Love), a drug lord who fronts as an ice cream man and, in a brief but memorable cameo, Sanford and Son ‘s LaWanda Page as a less-than-charitable Jehovah’s Witness.
While the character-driven script has a weakness for toilet humor (Mel Brooks would be proud), its inhabitants are given some oddball quirks and tics that keep things percolating when the plot development runs a little thin.
In his first comedic vehicle, Ice Cube wisely plays straight man to an able cast of professional stand-ups. — Michael Rechtshaffen, originally published April 26, 1995.
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“Friday” is the movie you watch and re-watch when you just want to laugh and start quoting iconic lines.
Unfortunately, it’s also a movie I re-watched after learning of the passing of John Witherspoon, who played Willie Jones, the father of Ice Cube’s character, in the film. The character that Witherspoon portrays in this film has become a bit of a caricature at this point but, at the time of “Friday”’s original release, Witherspoon was continuing to make his mark in the lore of African-American comedy.
This role eventually became one of his most iconic roles and served to cement his legacy.
“Friday” also served as Ice Cube’s attempt to portray the hood in a different light compared to the overwhelming violence that had ruled its depiction before.
The film was a showcase for Chris Tucker’s unique brand of humor. His line delivery catapulted a script that may have otherwise been lackluster. He and Ice Cube also made a four-letter word amazingly popular in the meme-culture of today.
The plot of the film is simple and often finds the two lead characters, Craig Jones (Ice Cube) and Smokey (Tucker) watching the everyday happenings of the neighborhood. At first, it doesn’t seem like a very sustainable plot but the comedy makes it enjoyable enough.
And yes, some of the jokes may be a bit dated. Even still, I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t have a few lines from the film stuck in my head.
As I mentioned before, the script is improved upon by energetic performances from the entire cast, which is not to say that Ice Cube’s writing talents didn’t translate to the screenplay page. Although it helps when you have the talents of Regina King, who had already established on-screen chemistry with Ice Cube from their work on “Boyz in the Hood.”
Witherspoon has a scene with Ice Cube when the former is actively using the restroom, which was just asking for cheap laughs. Witherspoon’s delivery made up for the tackiness though, giving the scene a hint of comedic merit.
I’d also like to point out that I’m writing this on a Friday. Now I bid you a “bye-Felisha.
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Everything We Know About Last Friday So Far
For over 25 years, the "Friday" movies have been intricately woven into the fabric of pop culture. Known as the launchpad for Ice Cube's acting career, bits and gags from the original film are used today with many not even knowing where "Bye Felicia!" even comes from. And based on the amount of reboots and revivals out there today, you would think that another "Friday" sequel would be a no-brainer. So where is it?
Back in 2011, Cube and New Line Cinema announced that they were developing "Last Friday." Intended to be the last movie in the series after sequels "Next Friday" and "Friday After Next," the star/writer was even looking to bring Chris Tucker back into the fold in order to give Craig, Smokey, Day-Day, and the rest of the gang a proper send-off. Yet the project remains in limbo after all this time. Now as things continue to move at a snail's pace, here's everything that we know about "Last Friday" so far.
Ten Years Later
Since the final chapter of this cult favorite series was announced, there has been very little movement. Occasionally, Ice Cube will chime in during an interview or on Twitter to inform the public that he's still working on it. For example, the legendary rapper tweeted in 2016 , "We had a meeting. Can't do 'Last Friday' unless we can do it right. Ball is in New Line Cinema's hands. Bat is in mine."
While appearing on Kevin Smith's "Smodcast" in early 2021, Cube shared that he used that bat to knock the script out of the park. Twice. But the studio kept sending back copious notes about why they wouldn't work.
"One they just wouldn't do because it was before cannabis was legal. Craig and Day-Day had a dispensary and they had a flash mob in there who stole all the sh*t. We ended up f***ing up some kids and going to jail. In jail, we see all the motherf***ers we put there... Our whole thing was trying to survive in jail with all these motherf***ers locked in with us. Then we get sent to rehab. I had the rehab run by Smokey and it's a f***in' scam. They're back there smoking all the dope they find on people."
Details on his second pass at the script aren't as readily available, but Cube thought it was absolutely perfect. He even gave it a chef's kiss when talking about it with Silent Bob. The studio disagreed though. They were apparently hung up on a love story element that wasn't even that prominent.
So it was back to the drawing board yet again. Unfortunately, this rewrite would have to take out a few notable characters.
Rest In Peace
On Oct. 29, 2019, John Witherspoon, who played a number of memorable roles including Willie Jones in the "Friday" series, died of a heart attack at 77 years old. Then, on Dec. 10, 2020, Tommy "Tiny" Lister died from coronary artery disease after battling COVID-19. Known to wrestling fans as Zeus and Z-Gangsta thanks to his battles against Hulk Hogan, Lister also portrayed the "Friday" franchise's neighborhood bully, Deebo.
Losing two prominent members of the "Friday" cast is a huge blow to fans and the filmmakers alike. Many were left extremely disappointed because New Line had plenty of time to greenlight the project before Witherspoon and Lister passed away. Now Ice Cube is forced to reimagine "Last Friday" without them. Understandably, it doesn't seem like he's ready to do so just yet.
Speaking to Mike Reyes of CinemaBlend while promoting "The High Note," Cube gave a passionate response when asked for an update on the long-gestating sequel.
"I haven't been able to write since John Witherspoon passed. It's just been very difficult to even pick up that project because I've been trying to get it made for over ten years now with two scripts and a bunch of dumb notes that, in the end, wouldn't have made much of a difference. So I'm just a little frustrated with the process. I would hope that New Line would do the right thing so that we can get the movie made for real. But I'm still fighting the good fight. There's still a movie to be made."
And he is still fighting to this day.
Ice Cube vs. New Line
The most recent update on "Last Friday" came from a new report from The Wall Street Journal . Over the summer, Ice Cube really stepped up his efforts to regain the rights to the "Friday" series from New Line (a Warner Bros. company), plus two other movies that he made at Warner Bros. — "All About the Benjamins" and "The Players Club." A letter from Cube's lawyer reportedly stated that the studio provided excessive notes in order to delay production. "We're right there at the finish line, and they don't pull the trigger," he said. The studio called these claims are "revisionist history" and that the delay is due to the star's "unwillingness to engage with the studio."
The report also notes that Ice Cube feels that there's a possibility of discrimination at play on the part of the studio. He feels that his work is "'habitually underfunded in comparison with projects featuring white casts and creative teams." Naturally, the studio dismissed these accusations by stating that they support diverse voice and storytellers, but the multi-hyphenate performer is determined to maintain this course of action and take "Next Friday" elsewhere: "I'm going to go somewhere else and make a hit and embarrass them."
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Since that WSJ report was released, there doesn't seem to be any updates on "Last Friday." It looked like Ice Cube had a number of projects lined up to fill his schedule while waiting for the fate of the "Friday" rights get sorted out. However, due to his recent refusal to get vaccinated in order to work on certain projects, his load might be lightening up very soon and he'll have more time to dedicate to this ongoing battle with New Line/WB. At this point, time will tell if cameras ever roll on this highly-anticipated sequel.
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Aubrey Plaza and Maisy Stella star in this coming-of-age comedy
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The gimmick at the center of Megan Park’s dramedy My Old Ass is grabby: On the night of her 18th birthday, a teenager blows off her family birthday celebration to go do drugs in the woods. There, she encounters an adult version of herself, and promptly proceeds to rag on herself for being so old. (The other version of her is just 39.) Seeing a confident teenager and her older self playfully butt heads over future job prospects and appearances is already funny. But woven through the Oh my God, is this what I’m going to be like when I’m OLD?! back-and-forth is a powerful movie about growing up.
Writer-director Megan Park ( The Fallout ) uses a high-concept plot to drill in on specific emotions and experiences, while dodging genre trappings and specifics about time travel. Skimping on the sci-fi mechanics while leaning into the emotions created by the situation lets her craft My Old Ass into a contemplative coming-of-age story — one that perfectly encapsulates the feeling of that one last carefree adolescent summer before everything changes.
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Maisy Stella (ABC’s musical drama Nashville ) plays Elliott, a confident young woman with big dreams of leaving her family’s cranberry farm behind when she goes to University of Toronto in the fall. While tripping on hallucinogenic mushrooms, she’s visited by an older version of herself (played by Parks and Recreation ’s Aubrey Plaza ), who offers her some advice about this very transitory time in their life. The two manage to keep up a correspondence via cell phone, with older Elliott trying to guide younger Elliott without giving away too much about the future. Her biggest warning: Stay away from Chad (Percy Hynes White), the charming boy who’s working at her family’s farm over the summer.
Throughout the movie, it’s a little ambiguous about whether actual time travel is occurring, or Elliott is just experiencing a side effect of her psychedelic trip. But that blurry line means Park doesn’t have to sweat over paradoxes or otherwise waste time laying out the rules of time travel. To young Elliott, chatting up her 20-years-older self is just a random, weird thing that’s happening, and she’s rolling with the punches. They never really interrogate the larger space-time consequences of the experience, or worry that they might break reality by touching. Which is a good thing, because Park uses the time-travel element as a tool to really hammer home the bittersweetness of growing up.
Young Elliott is confident about her place in the world, and Stella imbues the character with a particular brash brightness. When she starts to question what she’s taken for granted about herself and her family, and what that means for the future, her performance comes with a tangible vulnerability. Meanwhile, Plaza nails the older, more world-weary version of the character — but one who’s never too jaded or cynical. The two of them share some wonderful banter: It’s a testament to their chemistry that a lot of their interaction happens via phone, and yet it never feels stilted or shortchanged.
Older Elliott doesn’t share specific details about the future with her younger self, with good reason: She wants to let younger Elliott experience surprise at everything life has to offer. Her vague words of advice — effectively, slow down and spend more time with her family while she can — could be overused adages. But because they’re so universal, they can also apply to Elliott’s specific situation, like how she feels like she’s too good for her family’s cranberry farm. And the nebulous warning older Elliott delivers about that cute boy also could be a cliché — except that until she meets Chad, Elliott has only been attracted to girls. It’s a refreshing take on a coming-out story, and it makes older Elliott’s warnings even more intriguing, especially as younger Elliott and Chad clearly hit it off.
Beyond the time-travel setup, My Old Ass ’s most immediate hook is the leads and their easy rapport. This movie could have just been a collection of hijinks and jokes about touching your older self’s butt. But Park uses the timey-wimey elements to craft a story about those unheralded last moments, the ones we don’t realize will be watersheds on the way to growing up. Younger Elliott is eager to leave everything behind and move on to her next great adventure, but older Elliott is able to offer some perspective. At the same time, older Elliott gets to savor her bygone youth and tap into the days of being a fearless teenager who could conquer the world. My Old Ass is about growing up — the joy, the pain, and those little moments that resonate with us far longer than we think they will — and Park smartly pulls it off by drawing on Elliott’s perspectives of both the past and the present.
My Old Ass is out in select theaters starting Sept. 13, and everywhere on Sept. 27.
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Fridays are the special days on which a Bollywood movie is usually released in India. Films act as a stress buster and a perfect escape from a tightly packed schedule throughout the week. They are one of the most significant sources of entertainment in India. Watching a movie at the end of the week is also a fantastic escape from the monotonous life.
Bollywood is one of the largest filmmakers in the world. History shows that the movies produced and directed in India are appreciated all around the globe. After two years of the COVID pandemic, the Indian film Industry looks to come up with blockbuster movies with enthusiasm. We share with you the complete list of upcoming Bollywood movies with their star cast, genre, and director.
2024 could be one of the best years for movie watchers as the lineup consists of genres of all kinds – from Romance, Horror, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, and Sci-fi to movies on social issues.
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Movie Re-Release Calendar 2024: Your Guide to Movies Back In Theaters. ... Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/10/24 Full Review Augustine J Friday is a funny, funny movie. Ice Cube and ...
Posted on April 20, 2015, 12:19 pm. The telling moment happened nearly every morning of the 20-day shoot some 20 years ago. A neighbor — unhappy in spite of the $100 he was paid daily for the inconvenience of an Ice Cube movie being shot on his block — tried to disrupt the process in the most obnoxious of ways.
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Our review: Parents say (9 ): Kids say (24 ): Directed by F. Gary Gray (The Italian Job), this film is fairly unique in the history of African American cinema. Though Friday depends partly on toilet humor, it doesn't have the same hyped-up, eager-to-please vibe of many other comedies.
1. 'Next Friday' (2000) The first, and arguably the best sequel, in the Friday franchise is Next Friday. The movie was released in 2000 and became an instant success. According to Box Office Mojo, Next Friday raked in more than $14 million during its opening weekend - the most for any movie in the franchise.
Co-scriptwriters Ice Cube, DJ Pooh, and director F. Gary Gray find as much humor in well-observed detail as in the oddities of the film's world. Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2010 ...
Photofest. On April 26, 1995, New Line Cinema unveiled Ice Cube's screenwriting debut Friday in theaters, where the comedy grossed $27 million domestically and launched two sequels. The ...
Keep an eye out for "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" and "The Front Room," which both release next week. Check back each week to find the latest releases in theaters, from major wide releases to ...
Visit the movie page for 'Friday' on Moviefone. Discover the movie's synopsis, cast details and release date. Watch trailers, exclusive interviews, and movie review. Your guide to this cinematic ...
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews. 54. 44% Positive 4 Reviews. 44% Mixed 4 Reviews. 11% Negative 1 Review. All Reviews; Positive Reviews; ... Friday is funnier and funkier than "Bad Boys," more homegrown-seeming, less manufactured. ... Find a schedule of release dates for every movie coming to theaters, VOD, and streaming throughout ...
Unfortunately, it's also a movie I re-watched after learning of the passing of John Witherspoon, who played Willie Jones, the father of Ice Cube's character, in the film. The character that Witherspoon portrays in this film has become a bit of a caricature at this point but, at the time of "Friday"'s original release, Witherspoon was ...
Friday: Directed by F. Gary Gray. With Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long, Tom Lister Jr.. It's Friday, and Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday.
Friday is a 1995 American buddy comedy film directed by F. Gary Gray and written by Ice Cube and DJ Pooh.The first installment in the Friday trilogy, it stars Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long, Tiny "Zeus" Lister Jr., Regina King, Anna Maria Horsford, Bernie Mac, and John Witherspoon.In the film, unemployed friends Craig Jones (Ice Cube) and Smokey (Tucker) face troubles after becoming indebted ...
Details. Friday is a 1995 comedy film directed by F. Gary Gray and written by Ice Cube and DJ Pooh. Starring Ice Cube as Craig Jones and Chris Tucker as his friend Smokey, the story unfolds over one day in their South Central Los Angeles neighborhood. Dealing with the mundane and the unexpected, the film provides a humorous yet insightful look ...
This is a must watch for any art lover, Friday lover or human in this planet. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/01/24 Full Review Roxanne B It's a beautiful inspiring film.
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New Line Cinema. On Oct. 29, 2019, John Witherspoon, who played a number of memorable roles including Willie Jones in the "Friday" series, died of a heart attack at 77 years old. Then, on Dec. 10 ...
Aubrey Plaza and Maisy Stella star in the coming-of-age time-travel comedy My Old Ass. Limited theatrical release Sept. 13, wide release Sept. 27.
Sweetheart Deal. Sep 13, 2024. When the dangers of the streets close in on a group of sex workers battling addiction, they find refuge in the roadside motorhome of a self-styled savior with a mysterious past. But just as they begin to rebuild their lives, a shocking betrayal comes to light that will change them all.
Freddy's Fridays: Directed by Ben J. Williams. With Darcy Baker, Abu Barry, Matthew Baunsgard, Tom Beechcroft. An evil man lures female victims to his lair to be sacrificed by monsters.
Toronto Film Festival. Free Movies on YouTube. Friday the 13th. R Released Jun 13, 1980 1h 35m Horror List. 66% Tomatometer 58 Reviews 60% Popcornmeter 100,000+ Ratings. Crystal Lake's history of ...
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Watch Freaky Friday with a subscription on Disney+, Hulu, rent on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, or buy on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV. ... Release Date (Streaming) May 27 ...
Aankh Micholi. Comedy, Drama. November 13, 2024. Sab Moh Maaya Hai. Comedy, Drama. December 20, 2024. Welcome To The Jungle. Comedy, Drama. Movies Releasing this week or Friday - Find which movie ...