"The Wood" tells two interleaved stories of three young black best friends in Inglewood, CA. The adult story takes place on the wedding day of one of the trio while the teen story takes place via flashback. One of a recent spate of films which get "real" and desensationalize the Afro-Am male by taking them out of the ghetto and sticking them in a middle-class environment, "The Wood" is sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, and always entertaining though it is not without its awkward moments. An okay watch for those into best-friends or coming-of-age comedies about black males. (B-)
