In the Hive movie review & film summary (2013)
Robert Townsend's "In the Hive" tells the story of a young man pulled from his father's gang and forced into a reform school. We may expect that we are about to see a tardy inspirational film from 1990s South Central Los Angeles, in which a young man undergoes a personal transformation, with the usual melodramatic difficulties, leading to triumph in the third act. But this is about a real school in North Carolina and the film does not indulge sentimentality. His name is Xtra (played by rapper Jonathan 'Lil J' McDaniel, of the Disney Channel show That's So Raven) and beneath the longing eyes ...