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Baby is a american film of genre Drama directed by Juwan Chung released in USA on 1 january 2008 with David Huynh
Baby (2008)
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Add to a movie listBaby is a 2007 independent film, considered part of the hood film genre. The film tells the story of an Asian-American youth's gang life in East Los Angeles, set during the mid '80s to the early '90s. Directed by Juwan Chung and starring David Huynh, Tzi Ma, Feodor Chin, Ron Yuan and Kenneth Choi. It has been called "the Asian American Boyz n the Hood" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The film won Best Narrative Feature at the 2007 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and a Special Jury Award for "Outstanding Newcomer" for star David Huynh at the same film festival that year, and a Best Director award for Director Juwan Chung at the 2008 DisOrient Film Festival. It was also distributed by Lionsgate.
^ SF Gate, Current DVD Releases, http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/CURRENT-DVD-RELEASES-3779484.php
^ Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film festival, Award Winners, http://asianfilmfestla.org/2012/fest-info/award-winners/
^ Baby, 2008 DisOrient Film Festival, http://www.disorientfilm.org/2008/films/baby.htm
^ Baby, Gangs of Los Angeles, Quantum Wire, http://quantumwire.
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Baby is the tragic story of an Asian-American youth trapped in the seedy, dead-end world of hostess bars, pool halls and drug dens that characterize East Los Angeles gang life in the 1980s. Baby (Ryan Andres) is a motherless, poverty stricken 11-year-old with only an alcoholic father (Tzi Ma) to raise him. Things only get worse when he's taken under the wing of his gangster neighbor Tommy (Ron Yuan), who leads him down a path that lands him in Juvenile Hall for manslaughter, with Benny (Feodor Chin) ostracizing Baby from the group. After seven violent years in prison, Baby (now portrayed by David Huynh) is released, but struggles to fit into a society that rejects him, and soon returns to a life of drugs, street gangs and murder, while Benny has risen through the ranks to become the local Crime Boss. Only his childhood friends and a lost love offer him any hope of turning his life around before it's too late.Actors
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