Innocent young black man Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) is forced to move into a tough Los Angeles slum with his family, including his oddly streetwise, pot-smoking grandma (Helen Martin). Before long, Ashtray's nuclear-armed gangster cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans) introduces him to a bizarrely comic crime underworld. Luckily, Ashtray falls for urban poet Dashiki (Tracey Cherelle Jones), and she convinces him to go straight -- but he must deal with her manic ex-boyfriend Toothpick (Darrel Heath).
Release date: January 12, 1996 (USA)
Director: Paris Barclay
Producers: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Eric L. Gold
Screenplay: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Phil Beauman
Box office: 20.1 million USD
Budget: 3.8 million USD, 4 million USD