Akeelah and the Bee 2006  PG, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Doug Atchison
Cast: Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong, J.R. Villarreal, Sean Michael Afable, Sahara Garey, Lee Thompson Young, Julito McCullum, Erica Hubbard, Eddie Steeples, Tzi Ma
Brainy eleven-year-old Akeelah (Keke Palmer) is far from winning any academic awards at Crenshaw Middle School in South Los Angeles–until Principal Welch (Curtis Armstrong) convinces his friend, Dr. Larabee (Laurence Fishburne), to coach Akeelah to compete in the district spelling competition. After a rough start, Akeelah decides to study and excels through her efforts that lead her to winning the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
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Boesman & Lena 2000  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Berry
Cast: Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, Willie Jonah
Athol Fugard's 1970 off-Broadway play about South Africa's apartheid was directed by John Berry; 30 years later Berry wrote and directed this film version. Although segregation has long since been outlawed, people like Boesman (Danny Glover) and Lena (Angela Bassett) have paid the price and suffered its consequences.
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 Boyz N the Hood 1991  R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Singleton
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, Ice Cube, Laurence Fishburne, Nia Long, Tyra Ferrell, Angela Bassett, Lexie Bigham, Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II, Mia Bell, Kenneth A. Brown, Nicole Brown, Ceal, Desi Arnez Hines II
South-central Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s is a war zone. This film attempts to show that there are choices in life through the story of Ricky Baker (Morris Chestnut) who sees an escape from the neighborhood via a football scholarship.
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 Contact 1997 PG, 150 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, William Fichtner, David Morse, Angela Bassett, Rob Lowe, Jena Malone, Geoffrey Blake, Sami Chester, Timothy McNeil, Laura Elena Surillo, Max Martini
All of her life, Ellie Arroway has been hoping to receive a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence that will prove there is another world out there. Now, as an adult researcher, Ellie (Jodie Foster) discovers a signal from outer space that gives instructions for building and piloting a space craft as the means for communicating with the aliens. With financial help from multi-millionaire S.F. Hadden (John Hurt), Ellie sets out to contact the message's source. Based on astronomer Carl Sagan's 1985, thought-provoking bestseller.
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Critters 4: They're Invading Your Space 1991  PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Rupert Harvey
Cast: Don Keith Opper, Terrence Mann, Paul Whitthorne, Anders Hove, Angela Bassett, Brad Dourif, Martine Beswick
The ferocious, fanged, furry creatures are back one more time, and this time it's the future. After Charlie (Don Keith Opper) nearly destroys the last egg, animal activists, of course, say it would be illegal to eliminate a breed. So–off they go, deep-frozen, into space with Charlie. After being lost for 50-some years, they thaw, and Charlie has his hands full again.
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back 1998  R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Cast: Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg, Taye Diggs, Regina King, Suzzanne Douglass, Michael J. Pagan, Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
This story is based on Terry McMillan's bestseller about her own love affair with a younger man. Stella (Angela Bassett), a divorcee, plans to vacation in Jamaica with her good friend, Delilah (Whoopi Goldberg). Once there, Stella finds herself pursued by Winston Shakespeare (Taye Diggs) who has romantic intentions. But there are major problems, and all of them begin with the age factor: Stella is 40 years old, and Winston is a mere 20.
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Kindergarten Cop 1990 PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Ivan Reitman
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt, Richard Tyson, Carroll Baker, Cathy Moriarty, Park Overall, Richard Portnow, Angela Bassett, Joseph & Christian Cousins, Jane Brook, Tom Kurlander, Alix Koromzay, Betty Lou Henson
L.A. cop John Kimble (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is gathering evidence to convict psychopathic drug lord Cullen Crisp (Richard Tyson) and his cold-blooded mother Eleanor (Carroll Baker). After learning that Crisp is searching for his ex-wife (Penelope Ann Miller) and young son (Joseph and Christian Cousins), Kimble heads to Astoria, Oregon, with his partner Phoebe O'Hara (Pamela Reed) where he believes the son is a kindergarten student. Although mother and son have assumed different identities, Kimble is banking on the fact that getting close to the situation will lead him to Crisp. Phoebe has teaching credentials and plans to teach in the Astoria kindergarten class, but she gets food poisoning, and Kimble ends up going undercover as the kindergarten teacher.
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 Malcolm X 1992 PG-13, 201 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee, Theresa Randle, Lonette McKee, Debi Mazar, Joe Seneca, Kate Vernon, Tommy Hollis, James McDaniel, LaTanya Richardson
This is a very good biographical film about Malcolm X (Denzel Washington) and his rise from Black activist to influential leader of the Nation of Islam and his assassination at age 39.
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 Masked and Anonymous 2003  PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Larry Charles
Cast: Bob Dylan, John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, Jessica Lange, Luke Wilson, Angela Bassett, Steven Bauer, Bruce Dern, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer, Cheech Marin
When producer Nina Veronica (Jessica Lange) puts together a benefit concert, she doesn't have much luck getting an all-star cast. Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) is in charge of lining up the talent, and the best he can get is hard-drinking Jack Fate (Bob Dylan) as the headliner. Yes, the music is good.
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Meet the Browns 2008 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
aka: Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast: Tyler Perry, Angela Bassett, Rick Fox, Margaret Avery, David Mann, Tamela J. Mann, Frankie Faison, Jenifer Lewis, Lance Gross, Irma P. Hall, Sofia Vergara, Chloe Bailey, Lamman Rucker, Mariana Tolbert
Brenda (Angela Bassett) is a single mother raising three children in a Chicago housing project where she struggles to make ends meet. She loses her job and then gets a letter telling her that the father she never met has died. Brenda decides to take the children to his small town in Georgia for the funeral. She is greeted by the Brown family who is surprised to learn that Brenda exists but accepts her, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, into the family. Now, Brenda is surrounded by kinfolk and finds herself romantically attracted to a family friend, former pro basketball player Harry (Rick Fox), who just might change her life forever.
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 Meet the Robinsons 2007  G, 93 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi
Director: Stephen J. Anderson
Cast: Angela Bassett, Daniel Hansen, Jordan Fry, Matthew Josten, Wesley Singerman, John H.H. Ford, Dara McGarry, Tom Kenny, Laurie Metcalf, Stephen J. Anderson, Tom Selleck, Harland Williams, Adam West, Don Hall, Paul Butcher
Orphaned, 12-year-old Lewis (voices of Daniel Hansen and Jordan Fry) has invented a Memory Scanner so that he can find his birth mother by remembering the day she left him at the orphanage. Lewis enters his invention in his school's science fair, and all goes well–until the Bowler Hat Guy (voice of Stephen J. Anderson) steals the scanner. But, a stranger, Wilbur Robinson (voice of Wesley Singerman), comes to Lewis' rescue. The two boys time-travel to track down the Bowler Hat Guy and, in the process, meet Lewis' very eccentric extended family. 1 User Review
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Mr. 3000 2004 PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Stone III
Cast: Bernie Mac, Angela Bassett, Michael Rispoli, Brian J. White, Ian Anthony Dale, Evan Jones, Amaury Nolasco, Dondre Whitfield, Paul Sorvino, Earl Billings, Neil Brown Jr., Rich Komenich
Immediately following his 3,000th hit, Milwaukee Brewers star Stan Ross (Bernie Mac) retired from baseball and successfully marketed a raft of products under his name. He went on to live the good life–until an error was discovered leaving him with a mere 2997 hits. Stan's solution: return to professional baseball and play until he hits over 3,000–a feat easier said than done.
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 Music of the Heart 1999 PG, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Aidan Quinn, Cloris Leachman, Gloria Estefan, Jane Leeves, Michael Angarano, Charlie Hofheimer, Jay O. Sanders, Kieran Culkin
A divorced music teacher, Roberta Guaspari (Meryl Streep) fights a 10-year, uphill battle against her principal and the school board to attain her dream of teaching violin lessons to inner-city kids in Harlem. Meryl Streep was nominated for an Oscar as Best Actress.
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Nothing But the Truth 2008 R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Rod Lurie
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Angela Bassett, Alan Alda, Vera Farmiga, David Schwimmer, Courtney B. Vance, Noah Wyle, Floyd Abrams, Preston Bailey, Kristen Bough, Julie Ann Emery, Robert Harvey, Michael O'Neill, Kristen Shaw
With support from her editor Bonnie Benjamin (Angela Bassett), Washington, D.C., political journalist Rachel Armstrong (Kate Beckinsale) reveals the name of covert CIA agent Erica Van Doren (Vera Farmiga) in her story about a government scandal. When she refuses to reveal her source, U.S. District Court Judge Hall (Floyd Abrams) throws Rachel into jail for contempt of court, and her legal struggles begin as U.S. attorney Patton Dubois (Matt Dillon) pressures her to reveal her source. Rachel's attorney, Albert Burnside (Alan Alda), cites her First Amendment rights as he pleads her case. Meanwhile, Rachel spends one year in jail where she is beaten up by the inmates and is alienated from her husband Ray (David Schwimmer) but, through it all, maintains her integrity.
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Notorious 2009 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Cast: Jamal Woolard, Angela Bassett, Derek Luke, Naturi Naughton, Dennis L.A. White, Anthony Makie, Antonique Smith, Julia Pace Mitchell, John Ventimiglia, Marc John Jeffries, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Jasper Briggs, Cyrus Farmer, Aunjanue Ellis, Charles Malik Whitfield
Growing up in Brooklyn, young Christopher Wallace (Christopher Jordan Wallace, Jr.) lives with his religious mother Violetta (Angela Bassett). When he reaches his teenage years, Christopher (now played by Jamal Woolard) enters the criminal world of drugs and even serves some time in jail. Along the way, he realizes that he is great at dropping lines, signs a deal with Sean "Diddy" Combs (Derek Luke) to record his rap music, and becomes the phenomenon, Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie. He lives life out on the edge with women and partying, but fate steps in, and Wallace is murdered in Los Angeles at the young age of 24.
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Passion Fish 1992 R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Angela Bassett, Lenore Banks, Maggie Renzi, Sheila Kelley, Tom Wright
May-Alice (Mary McDonnell) had been a television star before she was hit and paralyzed by a New York cab. Depressed and drowning her sorrows in alcohol, she returns home to Louisiana where the friendship with her nurse Chantelle (Alfre Woodard) changes both women's lives. McDonnell was nominated for an Oscar.
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The Rosa Parks Story 2002 TV, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julie Dash
Cast: Angela Bassett, Peter Francis James, Cicely Tyson, Dexter King, Nick LaTour, Tonea Stewart, Von Coulter, Charde Manzy, Stephanie Astalos-Jones, Sonny Shroyer
Rosa Parks (excellently played by Angela Bassett) is best known for her refusal to obey bus segregation rules, but she was a pioneer in the civil rights movement. This is her story, diluted somewhat, but still powerful as it traces her life from her school days, to membership in the NAACP, and resulting major Civil Rights activities.
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Ruby's Bucket of Blood 2001 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Werner
Cast: Angela Bassett, Kevin Anderson, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jurnee Smollett, Glenn Plummer, Angelica Torn, Arnold Pinnock, Martin Villafana, Cabral Richards, David Ferry
Ruby's (Angela Bassett) Louisiana nightclub is a popular joint in the early 1960s, and Ruby herself leads a hectic life. Then Billy Dupre (Kevin Anderson), a singer who is booked for the club, arrives on the scene, and Ruby's life gets more complicated when an affair with Billy begins. Made for cable TV.
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The Score 2001 R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama / Action / Thriller
Director: Frank Oz
Cast: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett, Gary Farmer, Paul Soles, Jamie Harrold, Serge Houde, Jean-Rene Ouellet, Martin Drainville, Claude Despins, Richard Waugh, Mark Camacho, Gavin Svensson, Marie-Josee Colburn
Just one last heist is what aging safecracker Nick (Robert De Niro) is thinking when Max (Marlon Brando) talks him into robbing the Montreal Customs House. But, everything rests on the shoulders of Jack (Edward Norton), and Nick is not sure that he is up to handling his part of the deal.
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Strange Days 1995 R, 145 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vincent D'Onofrio, Richard Edson, Glenn Plummer, Josef Sommer, Todd Graff
Set at the end of 1999, this is the story of an ex-cop (Ralph Fiennes) who has sunk to selling virtual-reality clips of other peoples' sex and violence to those who trade real life experiences for voyeurism.
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Sunshine State 2002 PG-13, 141 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Edie Falco, Angela Bassett, Jane Alexander, Timothy Hutton, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Edson, Miguel Ferrer, Mary Alice, Ralph Waite, James McDaniel, Bill Cobbs
Plantation Island off Florida's coast is the location developers have chosen on which to build expensive condos, hotels, and golf courses. But, first, the developers must talk property owners into selling. The owners consist of two side-by-side, but very different, beach communities: Lincoln Beach's African-American community and the tourist town of Delrona Beach.
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Supernova 2000 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Walter Hill, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Sholder
Cast: James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Peter Facinelli, Robin Tunney, Wilson Cruz, Knox White, Eddy Rice Jr., Kerrigan Mahan, Vanessa Marshall, Kevin Sizemore
Set in the 22nd century, this space saga chronicles the mission of a medical rescue ship, Nightingale 229. The crew–Captain and Pilot (Robert Forster), co-pilot (James Spader), medical officer (Angela Bassett), medical technician (Lou Diamond Phillips), paramedic (Robin Tunney), and computer technician (Wilson Cruz)–finds itself in peril after rescuing Troy Larson (Peter Facinelli) who appears to be a psychotic killer. Good special effects.
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 Waiting to Exhale 1995  R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Forest Whitaker
Cast: Angela Bassett, Whitney Houston, Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, Gregory Hines, Dennis Haysbert, Mykelti Williamson, Michael Beach, Leon, Wesley Snipes
Based on Terry McMillan's novel, this is the story of four African-American women who face life–with romantic setbacks–head on and support one another through thick and thin. 1 User Review
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| 1. Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
2. Boesman & Lena (2000)
3. Boyz N the Hood (1991)
4. Contact (1997)
5. Critters 4: They're Invading Your Space (1991)
6. How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
7. Kindergarten Cop (1990)
8. Malcolm X (1992)
9. Masked and Anonymous (2003)
10. Meet the Browns (2008)
aka: Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
11. Meet the Robinsons (2007)
12. Mr. 3000 (2004)
13. Music of the Heart (1999)
14. Nothing But the Truth (2008)
15. Notorious (2009)
16. Passion Fish (1992)
17. The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
18. Ruby's Bucket of Blood (2001)
19. The Score (2001)
20. Strange Days (1995)
21. Sunshine State (2002)
22. Supernova (2000)
23. Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
24. Waiting to Exhale (1995)
25. What's Love Got to Do with It? (1993)
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