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Article: Out of `The Wood': Student-teacher team hits silver screen.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 2, 1999
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Todd Boyd can be found at the bottom of the official cast list for "The Wood," an unpresuming and amiable first feature by Rick Famuyiwa about three boyhood friends from Inglewood, Calif., who must weather a wedding day crisis.
Mr. Boyd, a tenured professor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema and Television, plays the minister who may or may not get a chance to officiate at a wedding ceremony, depending on how soon the reluctant bridegroom (Taye Diggs as Roland) sobers up and does the right thing, under the influence of best friends Mike and Slim, portrayed by Omar Epps and Richard T. Jones, respectively.
Mr. Famuyiwa, a ...