Suffering from a major case of prenuptial jitters, a young man, Roland, played by Taye Diggs, flees the scene hours before the event and returns to the safer turf of Inglewood, New Jersey, the "Wood" of the title, where he grew up.
There he encounters his old buddies and his high school sweetheart, and they begin to reminisce about growing up in the '80s. His buddies can't believe Roland is taking "the big step," and this engenders some wild, if not exactly nostalgic, antics.
The film, replete with '80s hip-hop, is a collaboration of MTV and Paramount Pictures, spawned by director Rick Famuyiwa's own memories of growing up in Inglewood, a middle class, predominantly African-American neighborhood.
Probably the best thing about the film is Diggs' performance as the beset young groom. You may remember him as the hunk who helped "Stella" get her groove back. He also starred in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway show "Rent."
The picture, now showing at Caribbean Cinema Market Square East, is rated R.
