Paula Jai Parker
Also Known As: Paula Jai Parker-Martin
Biography: Paula Jai Parker (born August 19, 1969) is an American actress. She is best known for her supporting roles in the films Friday (1995), Sprung (1997), Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998), Phone Booth (2002), Hustle & Flow (2005) and Idlewild (2006). Description above from the Wikipedia article Paula Jai Parker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Birthday: August 19, 1969
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Gender: Female
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Phone Booth
Overview: A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-04
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Friday
Overview: Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-26
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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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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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You, Me & Her
Overview: When 30 versions of one person pass through the wormhole at the Department of Parallel Resettlement, Anna discovers she is the worst possible version of herself.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-01
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Sprung
Overview: Two pairs of best friends - Montel & Clyde and Brandy & Adina meet at the party, where Clyde makes Adina think he is very rich and gets her into bed the same evening. When Adina finds out that she's been fooled, she becomes Clyde's worst enemy. Meanwhile Montel and Brandy fall in love and plan to marry, and Adina and Clyde try to do everything to stop them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-14
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The Furry Fortune
Overview: Two twins who are growing apart discover their pet rescue dog is shedding money. The neighbors, a malicious IRS agent and his slimy son, kidnap the money-making canine, and the siblings must work together to save their pet and their family.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-01
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Kings of L.A.
Overview: A young man reaches a critical point in his life as he struggles to navigate the changing gentrification of his neighborhood. Pressured by gangs, the temptations of easy money and the culture shifts around him in South Central he tries to figure out how to survive when everyone wants a piece of him and his neighborhood.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-13
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The Breaks
Overview: Derrick, a racially-confused Irishman raised in the hood by a black family is having the worst day ever. Determined to prove to his fed-up mother and would-be girlfriend that he's not a screw-up, he sets out to do one thing right (get some milk) and even that proves to be a challenge! Hilarious encounters with racist red-neck cops, local gangsters and 'flamboyant' pawn shop owners ensue, and along the way Derek shows that he can actually do things for others and maybe even get his own life together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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Life of a King
Overview: The true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown established the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the streets and working towards lives they never believed they were capable of. This is his inspirational story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-22
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When a Woman's Fed Up
Overview: Taryln is a powerful and career-driven woman with a high tolerance for her husband's foolishness. When she discovers that her man has been unfaithful, she hatches a devious plot to teach her "better half" a lesson he will never forget.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-06
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4Play
Overview: Unsatisfied with his prior romantic achievements, Todd goes on a quest to date three women at one time. Little does he know, all three women share a common bond, and the aftermath ends up being more than he could ever bargain for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-11
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Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Overview: When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-12
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Taco Shop
Overview: A taco shop's business is jeopardized when a gourmet taco truck parks across the street.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-01
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Ray
Overview: Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-29
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My Baby's Daddy
Overview: A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-09
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A Miracle Before Christmas
Overview: With a little help from an angel, Mercedes Wright, a fast-talking popular relationship therapist with all the answers when it comes to fixing everyone else's marriage, must now use the magic of Christmas to find the secret to save her own.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-08
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Cosmic Slop
Overview: In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, this bizarre, thought-provoking trilogy addresses the destiny of the world's minorities: Part I: A conservative African American politician must choose between his people's survival and appeasing his white colleagues when space aliens propose to share their profound knowledge in exchange for all black people on earth. Part II: The Virgin Mary's appearance in an inner-city housing project forces a Hispanic priest to face the hidden cultural origins of Western religion. Part III: On the dawn of the "Black Revolution," an African American couple discovers who the "real" enemy is.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-08
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Get on the Bus
Overview: Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to him, a black Republican, a former gangsta, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a white bus driver. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, including manhood, religion, politics, and race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-16
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Hustle & Flow
Overview: With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-22
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Last Call at Murray's
Overview: Closing night at a rural bar gets complicated when a blizzard traps a motley crew of misfits overnight.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-05
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Animal
Overview: His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a maximum security prison, he meets a revolutionary who changes his life. Now a reformed man, James is released only to find that his own son has assumed a life of crime and violence. Can a father haunted by his past redeem his family from the very streets he created, or will he be forced to make the ultimate sacrifice?
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-01
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Tales from the Hood
Overview: A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.
Genres: Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-24
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High Crimes
Overview: A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-05
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Woo
Overview: Woo is a woman in control of her world. She is smart, self-confident, sophisticated and snarky. And she doesn't have any trouble attracting members of the opposite sex. But for some reason no one ever sticks around. Woo meets Tim, a paralegal who is her complete opposite. They shouldn't click. However, Woo and Tim begin to bond when a series of weird and stressful calamities hits them while they are on their first date.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-08
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Cover
Overview: When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of many years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith keep her going as the revelation of her husband's betrayal threatens to destroy all that they have known.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-08
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The Proud Family Movie
Overview: Penny and her family are lured on an all expenses paid vacation where a mad scientist captures them, refusing to let them go because Oscar won't reveal his on of his secret Proud Snacks formulas.
Genres: Comedy Family Animation TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-19
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King of the Underground
Overview: Part true story, part fiction, King of the Underground is a dark comedy about a frustrated rap artist who goes on an all out murderous killing spree after years of being rejected by the music industry.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-27
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She's Got a Plan
Overview: She’s Got A Plan directed by and starring Fatima Washington, follows Isis Angelo, a struggling female writer-director who gives herself an ultimatum: either make her dream career take off in 30 days or throw in the towel for good. But, will she be able to go against everything she believes to become something she’s always wanted to be?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-24
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Patterns of Attraction
Overview: This romantic comedy is a story that emphasizes the importance of commitment, true love and breaking old love patterns in order to create new beginnings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Hey, Mr. Postman!
Overview: An easily frustrated and wise-cracking charter bus driver from the mid-west loses everything after being fired. Desperately, he moves in with his crazy cousin to become a mailman in the rough urban area of Cleveland, Ohio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-01
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Love Chronicles
Overview: A disc jockey invites a relationship therapist as an on-air guest. They explore LA relationship struggles through three different callers' unbelievable stories, and in the process the DJ discovers his own love issues.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-30
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Why Do Fools Fall In Love
Overview: In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman, and each wants years of royalties due to his estate, money Levy has never shared. During an ensuing civil trial, flashbacks tell the story of each one's life with Lyman, a boyish, high-pitched, dynamic performer, lost to heroin. Slowly, the three wives establish their own bond.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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30 Years to Life
Overview: First of all, the title does not refer to someone sentenced to jail. It is a movie about 6 lifetime friends who are all hitting the big `3-0' together during the same year. Each one looks inside themselves to see where has my life gone and what am I going to do with my future. Actually, what I saw was a black Seinfeld comedy. Tracy Morgan, who is one of the main characters, is a struggling comedian just like Jerry Seinfeld. He gives his opinion of what women want in a man in one of his comedy routines. Melissa De Sousa is looking for a man before time runs out. She is just like Elaine in Seinfeld. I don't remember the big problem with turning thirty, however, all the characters in this movie can show you what they are, such as not having fame, riches, a husband, a thin body, and staying young. Their life stories are probably repeated many times around the world.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-04
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The Genius Club
Overview: What if you had one night to solve the world’s problems? For seven geniuses, they have no choice. A terrorist culls together a scientist, a seminary student, a pro baseball player, a professor, a casino owner, a painter, and a pizza delivery guy to attempt to solve the world’s problems in one night.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-27
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Act of Faith
Overview: After the death of his beloved wife, Mr. Brady struggles to maintain a neighborhood diner in Atlanta Georgia. His few faithful waitresses have become his only family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-08
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Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
Overview: Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history of black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-07
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Conundrum: Secrets Among Friends
Overview: A story about longtime friends whom have known one another since college. All of whom have been doing well since, with careers in the entertainment industry, on wall street, legal and even in the NFL. When the group decides to take a weekend getaway, to a rented beach house in the Hamptons, all hell breaks loose when secrets among them, come to light.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-11
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Assistant Motives
Overview: When a young woman accepts a position as a receptionist, she finds herself falling for the boss, and entering a world of drama and danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-24
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Pastor Shirley
Overview: Jason's heart and soul are stuck with the church his father ran before he passed away, and his dreams of making this community a place of worship, love, and sanctuary. Now a real estate mogul threatens to turn Jason's church into a strip mall! So who does he call? Pastor Shirley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-11
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She Hate Me
Overview: Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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Stalker
Overview: A young man’s budding romance is threatened when he befriends a strange ride share driver.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-31
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