Michael Wright
Biography: Michael Wright (born April 6, 1956) is an American film and television actor, who is best known for his role as Eddie Kane, Jr. in the 1991 Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats. Wright's body of work in television includes the 1983 NBC science fiction miniseries V, the 1984 sequel "V: The Final Battle" and on "V: The Series" as Elias Taylor, TV series "Miami Vice" 1987 episode "The Savage", and on the 1997 HBO series Oz as Omar White from 2001-2003. And he played "Clinton", the leader of The Del Bombers in the cult film The Wanderers. Wright's film roles include the 1987 drama The Principal as Victor Duncan, also starring James Belushi, and the 1994 film Sugar Hill with Wesley Snipes, his most recent film is 2005's The Interpreter. He has also made guest appearances on other TV shows including New York Undercover. In 1982, he starred in Peter Byrne's production of Barrie Keefe's play Barbarians at the SoHo Rep Theater with Gregg Martin and the as yet unknown actor Kevin Spacey. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Wright (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: April 30, 1956
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The Interpreter
2005-04-08
The Interpreter
Overview: After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-08
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The Wanderers
1979-07-13
The Wanderers
Overview: The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-13
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The Principal
1987-09-18
The Principal
Overview: Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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Dream House
1981-11-28
Dream House
Overview: Vacationing Georgia construction worker (John Schneider) meets and falls for Manhattan's comely Director of Urban Renewal (Marilu Henner) and despite her initial rejection of him, sets out to build a dream house for both of them.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-28
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Before I Self Destruct
2009-11-16
Before I Self Destruct
Overview: A coming of age story about an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his dream of becoming a basketball player fails to materialize, he finds himself employed in a supermarket. After his mother is tragically gunned down, Clarence (played by Jackson) is consumed by revenge and takes up a life of crime in order to support his younger brother.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-16
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The Five Heartbeats
1991-03-29
The Five Heartbeats
Overview: In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-29
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Money Talks
1997-08-22
Money Talks
Overview: Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-22
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Point Blank
1998-05-12
Point Blank
Overview: Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a group of shoppers hostage (after killing many more of them) before making their demands. Only Rudy, a former mercenary and brother of one of the fugitives, can take out the criminals before more of the hostages die.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-12
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Sugar Hill
1994-02-25
Sugar Hill
Overview: In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner brother to lead a straight life with his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-25
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The Laundromat
1985-04-01
The Laundromat
Overview: Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-01
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Confessions of a Hitman
1994-05-04
Confessions of a Hitman
Overview: A former hitman named Bruno steals some cash from his mobster uncle. He plans to go to Tahiti, but things go wrong and he finds himself headed for Vegas via Death Valley in a comandeered airport limousine, pursued by his uncle's henchmen and accompanied by a limo driver and an enigmatic blonde.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-04
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We're Fighting Back
1981-04-28
We're Fighting Back
Overview: Inspired by the exploits of New York's Guardian Angels, which began as a band of streetwise young people who formed an anti-crime subway patrol and went on to gain a national reputation and units in major cities around the country, this film unites three New York City youths as leaders of a citizens' patrol tackling gangs terrorizing merchants and local citizens.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-28
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Streamers
1983-09-05
Streamers
Overview: Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is gay.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-05
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Piñero
2001-10-05
Piñero
Overview: "Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero's prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes. The resulting notoriety and fame was too much for the Latino bad-boy genius who retreated to the darker corners of New York City.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-05
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D'Curse
2013-01-17
D'Curse
Overview: NYPD cop Ruda is a cop during the day and a religious Santerio (High Ranking Priest) of "Black Magic" by night. A curse is placed on the NYPD by the mother of a boy shot by cops. Now the NYPD needs Ruda to help break the curse.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-17
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Hardrock
2007-10-30
Hardrock
Overview: After a prominent judge's daughter dies from taking contaminated Ecstasy, the ensuing political scandal brings a world of grief to the city's street dealers in this gritty actioner. Under threat of being shut down, the city's top two rival dealers must work together to unearth the source of the tainted drug -- or take the fall themselves. Raekwon and Michael Wright star.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-30
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Jesse
2011-01-01
Jesse
Overview: Nassau County, New York Police detective Jesse turns vigilante as she investigates her brother's murder and enters into a world of crime, corruption, and shocking deception.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Coalition
2006-11-07
Coalition
Overview: A realistic depiction of how New York's lucrative construction business is systematically shaken down by minority non-union labor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-07
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Downtown: A Street Tale
2004-11-07
Downtown: A Street Tale
Overview: A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-07
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Raving
2007-04-29
Raving
Overview: In New York City, a young woman forms a curious bond with a lonely older man after they encounter one another on a street corner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-29
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Bedtime Eyes
1987-04-25
Bedtime Eyes
Overview: Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a black American GI on the margins of the law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-25
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Benny's Place
1982-05-31
Benny's Place
Overview: Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-31
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Street Justice
Street Justice
Overview: When two detectives are fed up with the system that's not working, they seek the help of a martial arts master to bring Justice to the Streets.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
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The Cottonwood
1996-01-01
The Cottonwood
Overview: Four friends get three million dollars and decide to construct a screenplay of 52 stolen scenes from the greatest movies ever made.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Diminished Capacity
2008-07-04
Diminished Capacity
Overview: A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's impaired uncle Rollie and his old flame.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-04
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2 Aces and a Dirty Heart
2017-10-13
2 Aces and a Dirty Heart
Overview: Two hustlers come up the hard way. When a group of savage stick up boys start terrorizing the city.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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