Results for Jason's Lyric
On this page:
 
Movies:

Jason's Lyric

DVD Release

  • Release Date: 2000
  • Collectible booklet
  • Original theatrical trailer

  • Rating: StarStar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Movie Type: Urban Drama, Crime Drama
  • Themes: Haunted By the Past, Sibling Relationships, Inner City Blues
  • Director: Doug McHenry
  • Main Cast: Allen Payne, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bokeem Woodbine, Treach
  • Release Year: 1994
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 119 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: R

Plot

This drama, set in a gritty part of Houston's outskirts, pits brother against brother as the two men try to cope with their childhood family tragedy. Jason and Joshua are opposites. Jason, an ambitious young TV salesman, is the straight arrow. Joshua, an aimless coke-head and frequently jailed petty criminal, is the black sheep. Their father, Maddog was a bitter and maimed Vietnam vet with a penchant for battering his wife, Gloria. To protect herself and her sons from Maddog, she throws him out of the house. In the ensuing fight one of the brothers fatally shoots Maddog. Jason is in love with Lyric, a feisty waitress. As he courts her, his brother Josh plans a bank robbery with his gang. In the end both brothers must face their past and do so in a violent shoot-out. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast


Suzzanne Douglas - Gloria; Forest Whitaker - Maddog; Wayne de Hart - Street Preacher; Eddie Griffin - Rat; Lisa Nicole Carson - Marti; Adam su Kidron; Ronald Lee - Jelly; Lahmard J. Tate - Ron

Credit

Suzanne Broderick - Executive Producer; Tim Clawson - Producer; Simon Dobbin - Production Designer; Francis Kenny - Cinematographer; David S. Lazan - Art Director; Doug McHenry - Director; Doug McHenry - Producer; Andrew Mondshein - Editor; John C. Newby - Second Unit Director Of Photography; William Scharf - Editor; Bob Williams - Special Effects; Dwight Alonzo Williams - Co-producer; Jaki Brown-Karman - Casting; Tessa Posnansky - Set Designer; Kimberly Hardin - Casting; Craig Anthony - Costume Designer; Afrika - Composer (Music Score); Clarence Avant - Executive Producer; Bill Carraro - Associate Producer; Matt Noble - Composer (Music Score); Marilla Ross - Co-producer; Bobby Smith, Jr. - Co-producer; Bobby Smith, Jr. - Screenwriter; Thomas Patrick Smith - First Assistant Director; David Barr Yaffe - Musical Direction/Supervision; George Jackson - Producer; Michael J. Moore - First Assistant Director; Donald Sparks - First Assistant Director

Similar Movies

Boyz 'N the Hood; Menace II Society; Poetic Justice; Straight Out of Brooklyn; Nikita Blues; Baby Boy; Amour Infinity; Hustle & Flow; Always Outnumbered; Another Planet
 
 
Wikipedia: Jason's Lyric
Jason's Lyric
JasonsLyricPoster.jpg
Directed by Doug McHenry
Produced by Doug McHenry
Clarence Avant
Suzanne Broderick
Written by Bobby Smith, Jr.
Starring Allen Payne
Jada Pinkett Smith
Bokeem Woodbine
Eddie Griffin
Distributed by MGM
Release date(s) September 28, 1994
Running time 120 minutes
Language English
Budget $7,000,000 (estimate)
IMDb profile

Jason's Lyric is a 1994 romantic drama film, written by Bobby Smith, Jr., and directed by Doug McHenry. It stars Allen Payne, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bokeem Woodbine, Treach, Eddie Griffin, Lahmard Tate, and Forest Whitaker. This film is the story about young African American adults of Houston who must learn how to deal with love and maturity. This is the first film directed by Doug McHenry, who has been successful as a producer for the film New Jack City.

Plot summary

Jason's Lyric is the "good brother"/"bad brother" story, set in the notorious Fifth Ward. Jason (Allen Payne) is the responsible young man who has a job in a television repair shop and lives at home with his hard-working mom (Suzzanne Douglass). Joshua (Bokeem Woodbine) is the brother just released from prison and obviously bound for a violent end. Joshua deals drugs for short-term cash and joins a gang plotting a bank robbery.

When Lyric (Jada Pinkett Smith) walks into the shop to buy a television, Jason has met his perfect match. She has dreams of escape, and inspires Jason to do supposedly romantic things like borrow a city bus to take her on a date. The height comes when Jason and Lyric take a romantic ride in a rowboat, then make love in the woods.

In a series of flashbacks, Forest Whitaker plays the boys' father, Maddog. Throughout the film, Jason has nightmares about a tragedy in his childhood. Either Jason or Joshua killed Maddog while he was drunkenly attacking their mother. Which brother pulled the trigger it's revealed Jason pulled the trigger.

Cast

Trivia

  • The abandoned railroad crossing where Lyric is alone is located east of Montrose/Studemont Blvd. in the Houston area. The railroad crossing was demolished in early 2000. A majority of the film takes place in Houston's Fifth Ward, although some of the film was shot in the 3rd Ward (one of the filming locations is the intersection of McGowen and Live Oak streets, along with Emancipation Park in Third Ward). These neighborhoods were named after voter precincts when the City of Houston was founded in 1856.
  • Jason is seen driving a customized Chevrolet S-10 pickup with a removable top.
  • The "This Is It" Soul Food restaurant is mentioned in the film, located off West Gray in Houston's Freedsmen Town Historical District.
  • The film originally received an "NC-17" rating, but after a few seconds were edited from the sex scenes it received an "R" instead.
  • Urban contemporary radio station KMJQ 102.1 FM is mentioned in the film. It was then called 102 Jamz, but by the time the movie was released, KMJQ altered its urban format to adult R&B station Majic 102 (now 102.1) due to competition from KBXX 97.9 FM, The Box.

See also

External links


 
 

Join the WikiAnswers Q&A community. Post a question or answer questions about "Jason's Lyric" at WikiAnswers.

 

Copyrights:

Movies. Copyright © 2008 All Media Guide, LLC. Content provided by All Movie Guide ® , a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC. All rights reserved.  Read more
Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Jason's Lyric" Read more

Search for answers directly from your browser with the FREE Answers.com Toolbar!  
Click here to download now. 

Get Answers your way! Check out all our free tools and products.

On this page:   E-mail   print Print  Link  

 

Keep Reading

Mentioned In: