The Wood is a 1999 comedy/romance film, written by Rick Famuyiwa and Todd Boyd. Famuyiwa also directed the film, which stars Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones, and Taye Diggs.
Mike (Omar Epps) tells the story of how he grew up in “The Wood”, Inglewood, California, with Roland (Taye Diggs) and Slim (Richard T. Jones) where they went to school together. The story reminisces back to how they grew up in The Wood, Mike (Sean Nelson)'s first encounters with ...
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The Wood is a 1999 comedy/romance film, written by Rick Famuyiwa and Todd Boyd. Famuyiwa also directed the film, which stars Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones, and Taye Diggs.
Mike (Omar Epps) tells the story of how he grew up in “The Wood”, Inglewood, California, with Roland (Taye Diggs) and Slim (Richard T. Jones) where they went to school together. The story reminisces back to how they grew up in The Wood, Mike (Sean Nelson)'s first encounters with Roland (Trent Cameron) and Slim (Duane Finley), and his first real crush on a girl named Alicia (Malinda Williams).
When Mike was younger he touched Alicia's behind and it resulted into a big fight with her big brother Stacey (De'Aundre Bonds). When Mike and Slim go find Roland for his wedding, they get a call from Tanya (Tamala Jones) saying that she has him with her and that he is very drunk. They get to her house to pick him up to take him back to the wedding to marry his future wife Lisa (LisaRaye McCoy) because they only have two hours...
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