Next Friday

Next Friday

The suburbs make the hood look good.

Directed by Steve Carr

Produced by New Line Cinema, Cube Vision

200098 min6.5 / 10

A high-energy comedy that uses fish-out-of-water culture clash and slapstick humor to mine laughs from a streetwise protagonist navigating suburban life while evading a vengeful pursuer.

A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison. But trouble soon follows and the suburbs will never be the same.

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  • Is Next Friday sad? Barely. Less sad than 80% of films.

  • Is Next Friday easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 71% of films.

  • Does Next Friday end with hope? Somewhat. More hopeful than 70% of films.

  • Is Next Friday violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is Next Friday scary? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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Love45

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