Next Friday

"The suburbs make the hood look good."

2000 1h 38m EN

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6.5

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★6.5TMDB · 680

Comedy

Synopsis

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A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison. But trouble soon follows and the suburbs will never be the same.

“The suburbs make the hood look good.”

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Cast

Ice Cube
Craig Jones
Mike Epps
Day-Day
Justin Pierce
Roach
John Witherspoon
Mr. Jones
Don Curry
Uncle Elroy
Jacob Vargas
Joker
Lobo Sebastian
Lil Joker
Rolando Molina
Baby Joker

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Steve Carr
Writers: Elizabeth Columbia, Ice Cube
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Made its money back 5.4× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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26 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Friday Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Steve Carr, shot by Christopher Baffa. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Terence Blanchard. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Elena Maganini shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Ice Cube and Mike Epps and Justin Pierce carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The suburbs make the hood look good.".

MoodPlayr · trivia#08

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Steve Carr directs. Christopher Baffa behind the camera. Terence Blanchard scores. Elena Maganini cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Made its money back 5.4× over at the box office.
226 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "Friday Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Steve Carr, shot by Christopher Baffa. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Terence Blanchard. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Elena Maganini shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Ice Cube and Mike Epps and Justin Pierce carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "The suburbs make the hood look good.".
9IMDB entry: tt0195945 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 13 themes, including "prison", "escape", "repayment", "gang war".

The technical file

Cinematography: Christopher Baffa
Original score: Terence Blanchard
Editing: Elena Maganini
Production design: Dina Lipton
Makeup / hair: Jasmine Kimble
Sound: Frederick Howard
Stunt coordinator: Keith Woulard
Runtime: 98 min · 1h 38m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $11,000,000
Box office: $59,827,328
Return: 544% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Next Friday (2000)

Part of

Friday Collection

Friday is a 1995 stoner buddy comedy film directed by F. Gary Gray, making it his directorial debut for a hit movie. Starring Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long, Bernie Mac, Tommy Lister, Jr., and John Witherspoon, the film revolves around 16 hours in the lives of unemployed slackers Craig Jones and Smokey, who must pay a drug dealer $200 by 10:00 PM that night. The film spawned two sequels: Next Friday and Friday After Next, and a proposed fourth film, Last Friday.

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Andre Gonzales2023-05-17
★ 8/10
Not as good as the first. Still really hilarious. This movie could have been the funniest movie ever made if Chris Tucker was in it too.
r96sk2025-03-06
★ 5/10
<em>'Next Friday'</em> disappoints, which isn't a surprise given the absence of Chris Tucker. The first film worked because of the two lead actors, so taking out one (esp. Tucker) was always going to make a sequel fall flat; especially without finding an adequate replacement. Ice Cube is OK and is the best part, if only via a process of elimination. Mike Epps didn't do it for me, his character is annoying. Of the newbies, Kym Whitley is the only one that comes close to working. Lisa Rodríguez's Karla is woefully written, as are the entire "Jokers" to be honest.