Lela Rochon
Also Known As: Lela Rochon Quinones, Lela Rochon Fuqua, Lela Rochon Staples
Biography: Lela Rochon (born Lela Rochon Staples; April 17, 1964) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Robin Stokes in the movie Waiting to Exhale. In 1996, Lela was chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the "50 most beautiful people in the world". Description above from the Wikipedia article Lela Rochon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: April 17, 1964
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Gender: Female
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Boomerang
Overview: Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing Jacqueline, is treating him in exactly the same way. Completely traumatised by this, his work goes badly downhill.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-30
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Waiting to Exhale
Overview: Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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The Chamber
Overview: Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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Harlem Nights
Overview: 'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-17
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Any Given Sunday
Overview: A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the ageing coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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Into the Homeland
Overview: A man's daughter disappears after falling in love with the son of a right wing, white-supremacist terrorist organization.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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First Daughter
Overview: Samantha MacKenzie, the daughter of the president of the United States, arrives at college with a group of Secret Service agents. Samantha, however, resents their presence and decides she wants to attend school just like a normal student. Her father agrees to recall the agents but secretly assigns James, an undercover agent, to pose as a student. They fall in love, but their romance is jeopardized when Samantha learns James' true identity.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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Gang Related
Overview: Two corrupt cops have a successful, seemingly perfect money making scheme- they sell drugs that they seize from dealers, kill the dealers, and blame the crimes on street gangs. Their scheme is going along smoothly until they kill an undercover DEA agent posing as a dealer, and then try to cover-up their crime.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-08
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Knock Off
Overview: A fashion designer and his CIA agent business partner must join forces to stop a group of terrorists from smuggling explosives in counterfeit jeans during the handover of Hong Kong.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-04
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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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Fatal Secrets
Overview: An attractive woman enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a charming man with a secret background who has pushed her to the breaking point. The women underestimate the consequences when they take matters into their own hands as their opponent forces them into a desperate situation, and everyone pays a price.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-03
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The Wild Pair
Overview: A strait-laced FBI agent and a hulking, big-hearted narcotics cop team up to track down a drug lord associated with a militant hate group.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-11
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Ruby Bridges
Overview: When six-year-old Ruby Bridges is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the first time.
Genres: Drama Family History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-18
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Labor Pains
Overview: A New York City columnist falls in love with -- and quickly gets pregnant by -- a free-spirited artist who promptly vanishes for eight months.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-07
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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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Foxtrap
Overview: Private detective is hired by rich man to find his niece, who has disappeared while traveling in Europe.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-01
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Stewardess School
Overview: A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school to become flight attendants. Somehow, the group makes it through to the final test: a cross-country flight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-01
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Supremacy
Overview: The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the run again. When he finds a house off a dirt road and takes a family hostage, he thinks the Aryan Brotherhood has his back–and his kidnap victims are black. The family’s patriarch, Mr. Walker, is a jaded ex-con who hates cops so much he disavowed his own son for becoming one. Seeing a familiar desperation in Tully, Walker refuses to call the authorities for help, causing familial tensions to escalate, and soon grave missteps are made.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-12
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Reversion
Overview: The daughter of a billionaire tech mogul questions her own memories about her mothers death after being kidnapped by a stranger.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-09
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Blood Done Sign My Name
Overview: A drama based on the true story in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher and the civil unrest that followed the acquittal.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-01
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Let the Church Say Amen
Overview: A prominent reverend balances his duty to the church with family woes as his 21-year-old daughter tries to put her life back together.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-29
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A Bunny's Tale
Overview: A dramatization of Gloria Steinem's undercover investigation of the working conditions Bunnies faced at the Playboy Clubs.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-25
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Legal Deceit
Overview: Sydney Banks learns the hard way that being driven and educated is not the path to success;under the wing of Todd Hunter (Morgan) her career takes off. Sydney then gets pulled into corporate blackmail and murder, but with the help of boyfriend Derek (Morris), she begins her own deception.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-18
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Breakin'
Overview: A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-04
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The Big Hit
Overview: Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-24
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Brooklyn's Finest
Overview: Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-04
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The Meteor Man
Overview: One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he's scared of heights. He can master the information in any book ... for about thirty seconds. Now his friends and family want him to protect their community from the dreaded Golden Lords.
Genres: Fantasy Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-06
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Tempted by Love
Overview: Ava, a renowned chef from Europe, rushes to South Carolina when her aunt suffers a fall. Luke, her younger driver, sparks an unexpected connection as they bond over their shared passions, leaving Ava to decide between love and her career.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-17
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