Menace II Society (pronounced Menace to Society) is a 1993 American hood drama thriller film directed by Allen and Albert Hughes. It was about a young boy trying to escape from slum - where is filled with evils - to have a more beautiful future. Kaydee “Caine” Lawson is a child raised in Watts, Los Angeles. His father was a dope dealer who was killed in a drug deal when Caine was ten and his mother was a heroin addict who died of an overdose.