After reflecting on Rodney's death and how his absence endangered her and JoJo, Jody finally decides to move in with Yvette. Horrified by Rodney's death, Jody prepares to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head, but Melvin stops him before taking the gun. Sweetpea urges Jody to kill Rodney, but he refuses, and so Sweetpea shoots and kills Rodney himself with four shots. Later that night, Jody and Sweetpea confront Rodney, and as he attempts to escape, Jody shoots him in the back of his legs. Rodney then steals Yvette’s money and keys from her wallet and drives off in her car to go and find Jody, whom he unsuccessfully tries to kill in a drive-by shooting. Eventually, Yvette and Jody reconcile at Sweetpea's house, and Yvette tells Jody about how Rodney tried to rape her in front of JoJo. Soon after, Yvette kicks Rodney and his friends out of her apartment. An upset Jody argues with his mother before getting into an argument with Melvin, which ends with Melvin punching him and breaking a table.įrustrated, Jody leaves the house to see his friend Sweetpea. Melvin comes home, admits to Juanita that he planted it and apologizes. Jody’s mother Juanita finds marijuana in her garden and blames him, who then angrily blames her new boyfriend Melvin, an ex-convict. Despite their previous issues, Yvette begins to realize she still loves Jody. However, Rodney does not care for JoJo and wants to impregnate Yvette himself, but when Rodney attempts to rape Yvette in front of her son, he stops himself out of guilt. Yvette's gangster ex-boyfriend Rodney is released from San Quentin State Prison and returns to the neighborhood to move in with Yvette. When Yvette discovers his cheating, their ensuing argument eventually turns physical, culminating in her kicking him out of her home. Jody also nearly has sex with Pandora, Yvette's colleague and co-worker, but manages to rebuff her advances. Meanwhile, Jody also continues having affairs with other women, including a young girl named Peanut, with whom he also has a daughter, Lil' Nut. They then have a heated argument about his lack of commitment and selfishness she asks him if he will ever come live with her and their son JoJo, but he deliberately avoids the subject and comes and goes as he pleases. Joseph "Jody" Summers waits for his girlfriend Yvette at an abortion clinic after compelling her to go. The film is also the final feature film written by Singleton as he did not write any of his later feature-length directorial projects before his death in April 2019. Released in the United States on June 27, 2001, the film received predominantly positive reviews from critics and audiences, with many deeming it as Singleton's best film since Boyz n the Hood. The film marked the feature acting debut of Gibson and provided Henson with her first prominent role. Additionally, the role of Rodney was originally written for Ice Cube, who had worked with Singleton on Boyz n the Hood and Higher Learning. However, following Shakur's murder in 1996, Singleton decided to replace Shakur with R&B artist Tyrese Gibson. The film was originally written with rapper-actor Tupac Shakur in mind to play Jody Shakur had previously worked with Singleton on Poetic Justice. The film follows Joseph "Jody" Summers (Gibson), a 20-year-old bike mechanic as he lives and learns in his everyday life in the hood of Los Angeles. Baby Boy is a 2001 American coming-of-age hood drama film directed, written, and produced by John Singleton and starring Tyrese Gibson, Snoop Dogg, Ving Rhames, Omar Gooding, A.J.
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