WATCH PARTY: Friday (1995) directed by F. Gary Gray @ Mary Pretlow Library

This one is in the 2nd floor conference room. This movie is supposed to be very quotable.

RUNTIME: 97 minutes

DESCRIPTION: It's Friday and Craig Jones (Ice Cube) has just gotten fired for stealing cardboard boxes. To make matters worse, rent is due, he hates his overbearing girlfriend, Joi (Paula Jai Parker), and his best friend, Smokey (Chris Tucker), owes the local drug dealer money -- and that's all before lunch. As the hours drag on, Jones and Smokey experience the gamut of urban life, complete with crackheads, shoot-outs and overly sexual pastors, concentrated into one single, unbelievable Friday.

BLURBS:
"Dirty, offensive, and infantile. [It] also happens to be incredibly funny." - Desson Howe, Washington Post

"Synthesizes blaxploitation and pot-comedy genres and melds them into a colossus of unending laughs." - Phil Villareal, Arizona Daily Star

"Friday has energy, and sass, and the nerve to suggest that the line between tragedy and comedy may be in the bloodshot eye of the beholder." - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly