Bill Nunn
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William G. "Bill" Nunn III (October 20, 1953 – September 24, 2016) was an American actor. Nunn made his acting debut in the 1988 Spike Lee film School Daze, and is perhaps best known for his roles as Radio Raheem in Lee's Do the Right Thing and as Nino Brown's verbally challenged bodyguard Duh Duh Duh Man in New Jack City. Some of his other film credits include Lee's Mo' Better Blues and He Got Game, as well as Regarding Henry, Sister Act, Canadian Bacon, The Last Seduction, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, New Jack City, Runaway Jury, Spider-Man trilogy (as Joseph "Robbie" Robertson), Firehouse Dog, the television series The Job, Randy and The Mob, and A Raisin in the Sun, adapted for TV. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Nunn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: October 20, 1953
Deathday: September 24, 2016
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
1995-12-01
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
Overview: Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-01
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Do the Right Thing
1989-06-14
Do the Right Thing
Overview: Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-14
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Spider-Man 2
2004-06-25
Spider-Man 2
Overview: Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-25
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Spider-Man
2002-05-01
Spider-Man
Overview: After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-01
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Spider-Man 3
2007-05-01
Spider-Man 3
Overview: The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-01
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Canadian Bacon
1995-06-08
Canadian Bacon
Overview: The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-08
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Firehouse Dog
2007-04-04
Firehouse Dog
Overview: Rexxx, Hollywood's top canine star, gets lost and is adopted into a shabby firehouse. He teams up with a young kid to get the station back on its feet.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-04
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Sister Act
1992-05-28
Sister Act
Overview: A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues the failing choir and begins helping with community projects, which gets her an interview on TV—and identification by the mob.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-28
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The Legend of 1900
1998-10-28
The Legend of 1900
Overview: The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-10-28
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Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
1995-03-17
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
Overview: Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects them.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-17
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New Jack City
1991-03-08
New Jack City
Overview: A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-08
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Extreme Measures
1996-09-27
Extreme Measures
Overview: Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-27
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The Last Seduction
1994-05-26
The Last Seduction
Overview: A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.
Genres: Thriller Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-26
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Quicksilver Highway
1997-05-13
Quicksilver Highway
Overview: Aaron Quicksilver is a mysterious storyteller whose listeners invariably end up as the subjects of his gruesome, grisly tales. He tells a new bride stranded on a desert highway a horrifying account of a set of carnivorous toy teeth, then entrains a pickpocket with the spine chilling story of an army of murderous, disembodied hands.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-13
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Kiss the Girls
1997-09-29
Kiss the Girls
Overview: Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-29
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A Raisin in the Sun
2008-02-25
A Raisin in the Sun
Overview: Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a new home for the family? Perhaps a liquor store? While no choice is easy, life on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s is even harder.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-25
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Foolish
1999-04-09
Foolish
Overview: 'Foolish' Waise is a talented comedian with a hard-edge trying to make it in the comedy clubs in LA while his brother is a hard-nosed gangster trying to make it on the streets. With all the competition they face in their chosen "professions," their biggest battle is with each other over the love of a pretty girl.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-09
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Always Outnumbered
1998-03-21
Always Outnumbered
Overview: An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-21
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Merry F#%$in' Christmas
2005-11-27
Merry F#%$in' Christmas
Overview: Denis Leary and a cast of many others celebrate Christmas Leary-style. Packed with original music and skits, this is a great spin on the usual holiday fluff.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-27
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Def by Temptation
1990-03-23
Def by Temptation
Overview: An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes in cases involving the supernatural.
Genres: Horror Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-23
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The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option
2001-04-24
The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option
Overview: A former mercenary joins a military academy as a teacher. He soon discovers a neo-Nazi group, code-named Werewolves, formed among the cadets. He also quickly finds that they have military leadership among the officers at the Academy.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-24
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Blood Brothers
1994-07-14
Blood Brothers
Overview: Blood Brothers- While coming of age in the inner city, Darryl Crawford, a young African-American man, witnesses a gang-related murder and is horrified to discover that his beloved older brother Sly is one of the perps. Darryl grapples with his conscience over informing on Sly -- but this fear becomes secondary when the remaining gang members close in on both brothers and threaten their lives.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-14
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Ambushed
1998-06-20
Ambushed
Overview: Jim Natter, the leader of a violent Kuk Klux Klan lodge, is shot dead. His teenage son Eric Natter is found nearby, and taken into police custody for his protection pending the investigation. While four cops drive him to a safe-house, they are ambushed. Three of them shot dead, including Deputy Lawrence, and his black partner Jerry Robinson is accused of the murders.
Genres: Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-20
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The Price of a Broken Heart
1999-08-16
The Price of a Broken Heart
Overview: Fact-based story about a landmark legal battle. A woman (Park Overall) learns that her husband has been having a very open affair with his secretary (Laura Innes) and has promised marriage. The wife sues for divorce and also sues the secretary based on an obscure law on alienation of affection, which was created to protect married couples from homewreckers. This sets a new court room consideration, as the culpability of the other woman must be defended and removes from consideration the fault of the married partners.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-16
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Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022-05-03
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Overview: JB Smoove and Martin Starr host a celebration of 20 years of "Spider-Man" movies, from the Sam Raimi trilogy to Marc Webb's movies and the trio from Jon Watts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-03
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Dangerous Heart
1994-02-02
Dangerous Heart
Overview: A cop begins to turn to booze and cocaine during a tough undercover assignment. When a big drug-buy goes sour and the cop ends up with a million in cash, he decides to take off with the money. The drug dealer catches up with him, but he dies before revealing where he stashed the cash. Months later, the drug dealer finds the cop's wife and seduces her, in an effort to find his missing million. In the process, he falls in love with her and alienates his former partners in crime.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-02
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Regarding Henry
1991-07-10
Regarding Henry
Overview: Respected lawyer, Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. After also losing his job—where he no longer 'fits in'—his loving wife and daughter give him all their love and support.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-10
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Save Me
1994-03-23
Save Me
Overview: An accountant beleaguered by personal and professional problems gets involved with a femme fatale and her mysterious psychiatrist.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-23
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Mr. and Mrs. Loving
1996-03-13
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
Overview: A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple are exiled after their wedding and have to wage a courageous battle to find their place in America as a loving family.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-13
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Bulletproof
1996-09-06
Bulletproof
Overview: An undercover police officer named Rock Keats befriends a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses in a bid to catch the villainous drug lord Frank Coltan. But the only problem is that Keats is a cop, his real name is Jack Carter, and he is working undercover with the LAPD to bust Moses and Colton at a sting operation the LAPD has set up.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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School Daze
1988-02-12
School Daze
Overview: Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-12
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Money Train
1995-11-21
Money Train
Overview: When a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries to protect him.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-21
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Passing Glory
1999-02-21
Passing Glory
Overview: A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball team in the 1960's. Eventually events like these signaled the pivotal turn in the games' history leading to the integration in today's sport. Directed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams), these basketball players didn't just make shots, they made history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-21
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True Crime
1995-08-01
True Crime
Overview: Mary Giordano is a bright, intelligent student who goes to a catholic school. She also has an addiction to mystery novels and detective magazines, which inspire her to do her own detective work. When she starts snooping around on the case of a murderer of teenage girls, it gets her in hot water with her mentor Detective Jerry Gunn. But it also starts a team up with police cadet Tony Campbell. The two work together to find the murderer. But the closer Mary gets to solving the murder, the more danger she puts herself in of being the next victim.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-01
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Out There
2006-06-10
Out There
Overview: Champions is a comedy about three dysfunctional young men that take a trip to the country. Seeking to instill some harmony into their lives, leave town to spend a weekend in the countryside with an eccentric relative.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-10
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Won't Back Down
2012-09-28
Won't Back Down
Overview: Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-28
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Carriers
1998-01-01
Carriers
Overview: A military woman and a worried mother travel overseas and to New Mexico to investigate a deadly virus.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Randy & the Mob
2007-10-13
Randy & the Mob
Overview: A good ol' boy (McKinnon) gets into trouble with some mobsters, and then must seek assistance from his estranged, identical twin gay brother.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-13
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The Affair
1995-10-14
The Affair
Overview: A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-14
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Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989-11-03
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Overview: The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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People I Know
2002-11-21
People I Know
Overview: A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-21
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National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993-02-04
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Overview: An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the 'Wilderness Girls' cookie drive.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-04
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Mad City
1997-11-07
Mad City
Overview: A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-07
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Mo' Better Blues
1990-08-03
Mo' Better Blues
Overview: Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-03
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Runaway Jury
2003-01-16
Runaway Jury
Overview: After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. But when juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend Marlee reveal their ability to sway the jury into delivering any verdict they want, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-16
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Stolen from the Heart
2000-01-26
Stolen from the Heart
Overview: A former prostitute kidnaps a baby boy at birth to satisfy her drug-dealing husband, who has told her that he is going to divorce her and put her out on the streets if she cannot produce him a son. Obviously the real mother becomes emotionally wrought and determined to get her baby back. Barbara Mandrell gets thrown into all of this mess as the mother's mother, who just happens to be beset with heart problems.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-26
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The Hungry Bachelors Club
1999-11-12
The Hungry Bachelors Club
Overview: A celebration of life, love, acceptance and family, "Food for the Heart" is a sweet romantic comedy, about two best friends, Delmar (Jorja Fox) and Hortense (Suzanne mara), whose culinary talents and gift for hospitality leads the two women to host evenings of love and laughter with an eccentric circle of half-baked family and friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-12
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Ellen Foster
1998-12-02
Ellen Foster
Overview: After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-02
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Kudzu Christmas
2002-11-05
Kudzu Christmas
Overview: Recently divorced Nina Taylorson (Wilson) and her young son Mason move to a small Georgia town to start a new life. Mason befriends Gaitus Stevens (Lawhorn), a lonely recently widowed older gentleman, and together they attempt to save several abandoned puppies hiding in the thick Kudzu bush. Their love, faith and determination help them cope with loss and separation and realize the blessings they share during the holiday season.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-05
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White Lie
1991-09-25
White Lie
Overview: A black New York man returns to his southern hometown to investigate his father's lynching at the hands of a white mob.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-25
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He Got Game
1998-05-01
He Got Game
Overview: A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-01
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Cadillac Man
1990-05-18
Cadillac Man
Overview: Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-18
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Idlewild
2006-08-25
Idlewild
Overview: A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the Prohibition-era South, out of the hands of gangsters who want to take it over.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-25
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The Tic Code
1998-06-01
The Tic Code
Overview: A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother's help, he is an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar. Both come to learn that each suffers from Tourette's Syndrome (thus the film title). The older man has developed mannerisms to cover up his own fallibilities and resents the boy and his mother's acceptance of the disease.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-01
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3 Brothers - Radio Raheem, Eric Garner and George Floyd
2020-05-31
3 Brothers - Radio Raheem, Eric Garner and George Floyd
Overview: 3 Brothers compiles Radio Raheem’s death scenes from Do the Right Thing with real footage of the deaths of Eric Garner in 2014 and George Floyd last week. All three men, including the fictional one, were killed by white police officers restraining them by their necks on the street. The film premiered during Lee’s appearance on CNN’s I Can’t Breathe: Black Men Living and Dying in America on May 31, anchored by Don Lemon.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-31
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Glory
1989-12-15
Glory
Overview: Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-15
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Help Me, Help You
2009-11-06
Help Me, Help You
Overview: Discovering he has six months to live, a doctor begins meddling in the lives of six friends he thinks he can help before he dies -- and even as his efforts go awry, he keeps pushing his career, romance and personal advice in this wacky comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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Lockdown
2000-09-15
Lockdown
Overview: Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-15
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