Rachel Getting Married 2008  R, 114 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Tunde Adebimpe, Debra Winger, Mather Zickel, Anna Deavere Smith, Anisa George, Jerome LePage, Victoria Haynes, Beau Sia
Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) is getting married to African American Sidney (Tunde Adebimpe), and the wedding party assembles at her family's Connecticut home. Rachel's sister, neurotic Kim (Anne Hathaway), leaves rehab to attend, and she makes herself the center of the wedding weekend. First, Kim manages to get Rachel to dump her maid of honor, and then she becomes involved with the best man who happens to be another recovering alcoholic. Rachel's father (Bill Irwin) is divorced from her mother Abby (Debra Winger) and is now married to a Black woman, Carol (Anna Deavere Smith). Since the divorce, Abby has become estranged from her family. Tensions flare over the long weekend as Kim goes out of her way to make everything go wrong and creates one emotional drama after another. Hathaway received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
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Slam 1998  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marc Levin
Cast: Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn, Bonz Malone, Beau Sia, Lawrence Wilson, Dominic Chianese Jr., Andre Taylor, Momolu Stewart, Taylor Mali, Reamer Shedrick
Filmed as a mock documentary, Ray Joshua's (Saul Williams) story unfolds of a man incarcerated in a Washington, D.C. prison who finds himself in the middle of a tug-of-war between rival gangs. His escape is in writing poetry and eventually getting his life together. Inspired by Paul Devlin's "SlamNation," a documentary about poetry slams (competition) filmed earlier the same year.
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| 1. Rachel Getting Married (2008)
2. Slam (1998)
3. SlamNation (1998)
aka: SlamNation: The Sport of Spoken Word
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