School Dance was released on DVD on October 7, 2014.
Kevin Hart as OG Lil' Pretty Thug (uncredited).The film ends with Jason's mother, Mamma Tawanna, coming into the parking lot with a gun, trying to figure out who shot Jason and breaks the fourth wall by showing Nick, the producers, and the crew then her shouting out at the audience. Jason is sent to the hospital and Anastacia goes with him, becomes his girlfriend, and gives the $2,000 prize money to Flaco. Jason saves Anastacia, but is shot in the process. However, the Sweet Gyrls end up winning the prize money.Īt midnight, Jason and the Ranger$ meet the Eses in the parking lot and are about to be killed until the wannabe gangsters start a drive-by shooting. They later compete in a talent show to win $2,000 but when it comes to the Ranger$' performance, Jason finally beats his fear and raps to help them win the money. After school is over, Anastacia gives Jason her number, so they can write a song together sometime.Īnother subplot of the film follows two police officers Officer P'eniss and Lagney, who are chasing down the New Boyz who are on their way to the lock-in but get caught with weed brownies and "grape juice", which Officer Lagney consumes.Īt the school dance lock-in, Jason, Anastacia, the Ranger$, and Sweet Gyrls play " seven minutes in heaven", but when it is Jason and Anastacia's turn, she tells him that she already knows his plan, and they decide to just stay friends. In his English class, Jason gives Anastacia a poem he wrote about her after she forgets to do the homework assignment only for the teacher to make her read it in front of the class, which everyone including Anastacia finds to be very great. Meanwhile, Day Day, one of the Ranger$ and Jason's older cousin, owes Anastacia's eldest brother Junior $2,000 by midnight due to Day Day's father Darren telling Junior that Day Day would have his money after losing to him in a game of dominoes. Jason then decides that he is going to attempt to get a pair of panties from his longtime crush Anastacia during the school's lock-in.
They say he has to pass the initiation of getting a pair of panties from one of the Sweet Gyrls by midnight. Jason tells the story from the beginning, starting with him trying to get into the most popular dance clique in school, The Ranger$. July 24: Katt Williams was arrested after a spat with a female employee of the Sportsmen's Lodge, a Ventura Boulevard hotel, according to the Los Angeles Times. The film opens with a news broadcast about a teenager named Jason Jackson being shot outside the Monte Vista High School dance lock-in. It is Cannon's directorial feature film debut. The film was released on July 2, 2014, in select theaters, VOD, and Digital HD. Thompson, Luenell, Mike Epps, George Lopez, Lil Duval, Katt Williams, and Wilmer Valderrama.
It's one of the forms of storytelling today that lives on thanks to the fight from Civil Rights Era comedians, who risked arrest and lynching to tell their truth.School Dance is a 2014 American musical comedy-drama film directed, co-written, and produced by Nick Cannon. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Rosa Parks. But, among the many untold stories are some of the figures who made them laugh.ĭick Gregory, Jackie “Moms” Mabley, Richard Pryor, Godfrey Cambridge and more established and emerging Black comedians of the '60s challenged and eased racial tension during the Civil Rights Movement with their tongues. Comedy persists as an accessible resource, combining social commentary and humor, as book bans against literature about American history mount and teaching Black history is challenged by politicians amid divide over critical race theory. "Somebody actually asked me recently, 'Why do Black people laugh so hard? And why do they go to so many comedy shows?' And I said, 'We need to laugh the most because we've been through the most,'" comedian Guy Torry says. "And we have to laugh to keep from crying."īlack History Month often recycles tales of adversity faced by Dr. Editor’s note: This article uses era-specific terminology about race which may be offensive to some readers.
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