Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Wood (Motion picture : 1999)

Title:

The Wood / Paramount Pictures presents ; an MTV Films ; in association with Bona Fide Productions ; produced by Albert Berger, David Gale, Ron Yerxa ; story by Rick Famuyiwa and Todd Boyd ; screenplay by Rick Famuyiwa ; directed by Rick Famuyiwa.

Edition:

Special edition.

Publisher, Date:

Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2007]

Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Warner Home Video

Description:

1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb, is called the Wood. It is largely home to Black middle class families. Mike, Slim, and Roland have been best friends since junior high. It's three hours before Roland's wedding and he has a bad case of cold feet. Mike and Slim must sober him up and help him decide if he wants to go through with the wedding. In flashbacks, they recall key moments of their friendship, including the rites of passage from boys to men.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R; for strong language and some strong sexuality.

Subjects:

African American men -- California -- Inglewood -- Drama.

Weddings -- California -- Inglewood -- Drama.

Rites and ceremonies -- Drama.

Male friendship -- California -- Inglewood -- Drama.

Inglewood (Calif.) -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Romance films.

Comedy films.

Coming-of-age films.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Berger, Albert (Motion picture producer), film producer.

Yerxa, Ron, film producer.

Gale, David (David M.), film producer.

Famuyiwa, Rick, author, screenwriter, film director.

Boyd, Todd, author.

Epps, Omar, actor.

Jones, Richard T., 1972- actor.

Diggs, Taye, actor.

Nelson, Sean, actor.

Jones, Tamala, actor.

Bonds, DeAundre, actor.

Lathan, Sanaa, actor.

Bernstein, Steven, director of photography.

Carter, John (John H.), editor of moving image work.

Johnson, Darryle, costume designer.

Hurst, Bob, composer (expression)

Paramount Pictures Corporation, presenter.

MTV Films (Firm), production company.

Bona Fide Productions, production company.

Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm), publisher.

Warner Home Video (Firm), film distributor.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.

Special features: Commentary by director Rick Farnuyiwa and actors Taye Diggs and Richard T. Jones; Making The wood; Theatrical trailer; Photo gallery.

Director of photography, Steven Bernstein ; editor, John Carter ; music, Robert Hurst ; costume designer, Darryle Johnson ; production designers, Roger Fortune, Maxine Shepard ; story by Rick Famuyiwa and Todd Boyd.

Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones, Taye Diggs, Sean Nelson, Tamala Jones, De'Aundre Bonds, Sanaa Lathan.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 surround; 5.1 surround.

English dialog; with optional English subtitles; closed-captioned in English.

ISBN:

1415728887

9781415728888

9786317031227 : DVD

6317031223 : DVD

Publisher Number:

12234

Other Number:

318545754

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

1012821

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Wood