Starring: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Helen Martin, Darrel Heath, Tracey Cherelle Jones

Print courtesy of the Sally Cruikshank and Jon Davison Collection at the Academy Film Archive

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).