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''Baby Boy'' is a 2001 American coming-of-age urban comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Singleton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255819/ )〕 The film follows bicycle mechanic Joseph "Jody" Summers as he lives and learns in his everyday life in the hood of Los Angeles. It represented the film debut of Taraji P. Henson and R&B singer Tyrese Gibson. ''Baby Boy'' was filmed in 2000 and released in summer 2001. Gibson and Henson later starred in the film ''Four Brothers''. The film, originally set to star Tupac Shakur, instead switched to Gibson after Shakur's 1996 death. ==Plot== A 20-year-old man named Joseph Summers (Jody) (Tyrese Gibson) lives with his 36-year-old mother Juanita (Adrienne-Joi Johnson), in South Central Los Angeles.〔 He spends most of his time with his unemployed best friend Sweetpea (Omar Gooding), and does not seem interested in becoming a responsible adult. However, he is forced to mature as a result of an ex-con named Melvin (Ving Rhames), who moves into their home. Another factor is his children—a son Joseph "JoJo" Summers Jr. with his girlfriend of five years, 19 year-old Yvette (Taraji P. Henson) and a daughter with a girl that he cheated on Yvette with,18 year-old Peanut, who also lives with her mother. At the beginning of the movie Yvette has an abortion that Jody forced her to have. Yvette constantly asks Jody if he will ever come live with her and their son so they could be like a family, but Jody avoids the subject and comes and goes as he pleases. Jody also continues seeing and having sex with other women, including Peanut. Jody also nearly has sex with 23 year-old Pandora, Yvette's colleague and co- worker but manages to rebuff her advances. This becomes an issue between him and Yvette as well, especially since Yvette and Peanut do not get along and Yvette not getting along with Pandora. When she discovers his cheating they get in a heated argument which results to Yvette slapping Jody in his face and Jody slapping Yvette in her face. After this, Yvette changes the locks on the door. This infuriates Jody and they get into an argument, which JoJo witnesses. Eventually, Yvette's gangster ex-boyfriend Rodney (Snoop Dogg) is released from San Quentin State Prison, and returns to the neighborhood to move in with Yvette, much to her dismay. Rodney doesn't care for Yvette and Jody's son and wants to impregnate Yvette himself. Rodney attempts to rape Yvette in front of her son, but reconsiders after being guilted by Yvette and JoJo. Despite their previous differences, Yvette begins to realize she is still in love with Jody. For the next couple of days Yvette lives in fear and disgust of Rodney being there and misses Jody. Rodney, who realizes this, steals the money from her wallet and takes off in her car to go and find Jody. Rodney tries to kill Jody in a drive-by shooting; however, he is unsuccessful. Juanita finds Marijuana in her garden and blames Jody for planting it. Jody becomes angry at his mom and blames Melvin for the marijuana until he comes home and admits to Jody's mom for planting it. Jody and Melvin get into a heated argument and a fight until Melvin punches him in the face breaking the table. Jody leaves the house to see Yvette. After this Yvette kicks Rodney and his friends out of her apartment. Eventually, after some more bickering, Yvette and Jody reconcile at Sweetpea's house, and Yvette admits to Jody that Rodney attempted to rape her. Jody and Sweetpea confront Rodney, and as he attempts to escape, Jody shoots him in the back of the knees. Sweetpea urges Jody to kill Rodney, but he refuses, at which point Sweetpea shoots Rodney to death. Feeling guilty for Rodney's death, Jody prepares to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head, but Melvin catches him and takes the gun. After reflecting on the death of Rodney and how he put Yvette and his son in danger by not being around consistently, Jody finally moves out of his mom's house and in with Yvette. Jody has now become a mature man, realizing that his mom's relationship with Melvin is a stable one and that he has a family of his own that he needs to protect and take care of. Afterwards, Jody and Yvette get married and she becomes pregnant again. Sweetpea decides to turn over a new life and gets baptized, putting his old life as a thug behind him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baby Boy (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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