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Jason's Lyric is a 1994 romance-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 African American young adults 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
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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 have explicit 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 isn't revealed until the end.

Cast

Allen Payne
— Jason Alexander
Jada Pinkett Smith
— Lyric
Bokeem Woodbine
— Joshua Alexander
Anthony 'Treach' Criss — Alonzo
Eddie Griffin
— Rat
Suzzanne Douglass
— Gloria
Lisa Nicole Carson
— Marti
Lahmard J. Tate — Ron
Forest Whitaker
— Maddog
Asheamu Earl Randle — Teddy

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. These neighborhoods were named after voter precincts when the City of Houston was founded in 1856.

The film originally received an "NC-17" rating, but after a few seconds were edited from the sex scenes it received an "R" instead.

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