Asunder 1999  R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tim Reid
Cast: Blair Underwood, Debbi Morgan, Michael Beach, Marva Hicks, Desiree Marie Velez, Ira Hawkins, Alene Dawson, Wendy Moore, Joe Inscoe, Jen Harper
Chance (Blair Underwood), his pregnant wife Roberta (Marva Hicks), and their best friends Michael and Lauren (Michael Beach and Debbi Morgan) board the Ferris wheel. A freak accident kills Roberta (and her unborn baby). Chance grieves at his friends' home, but when he finds out that Lauren had an abortion, and the baby may have been his, he loses it and begins to stalk Lauren, trying to wreck their marriage. Oft-told tale saved by good acting.
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Coach Carter 2005  PG-13, 136 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Thomas Carter
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Rob Brown, Robert Ri'chard, Rick Gonzalez, Nana Gbewonyo, Antwon Tanner, Channing Tatum, Ashanti, Texas Battle, Denise Dowse, Debbi Morgan, Mel Winkler, Carolina Garcia, Vincent Laresca, Octavia Spencer
This film is based on a true story that took place in 1999 when basketball team members signed a contract to maintain good grades at their high school. When they failed to live up to the commitment, Coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) benched the undefeated team and insisted on a 2.5 grade point average for his players. The community was outraged.
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Eve's Bayou 1997  R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Cast: Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan, Jake Smollett, Ethel Ayler, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Diahann Carroll, Lisa Nicole Carson
Ten-year-old Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett) who adores her father, Louis (Samuel L. Jackson). During the summer of 1962 she watches as her father makes love to a married woman, and she confides her secret to her older sister, Cisely (Meagan Good). This leads to a series of lies through which Cisely tries to sort out truth.
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 The Hurricane 1999  R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Denzel Washington, Deborah Kara Unger, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Liev Schreiber, John Hannah, Dan Hedaya, Debbi Morgan, Clancy Brown, David Paymer, Rod Steiger, Harris Yulin, Badja Djola, Vincent Pastore, Al Waxman, David Lansbury
Denzel Washington excels in his portrayal of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter–a boxer sent to prison on trumped-up murder charges in 1966. Carter remained in prison until 1986 when the efforts of a Brooklyn-born teenager, Lesra Martin (Vicellous Reon Shannon), spurred another investigation leading to Carter's release. Washington received an Academy Award nomination.
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The Jesse Owens Story 1984 TV, 174 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Irving
Cast: Dorian Harewood, Tom Bosley, Ronny Cox, Georg Stanford Brown, George Kennedy, Debbi Morgan, Greg Morris, Vic Tayback, LeVar Burton, Ben Vereen, Barry Corbin, Norman Fell
Dorian Harewood stars as Black athlete Jesse Owens who won four gold medals and became a star at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi-dominated Berlin.
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Love & Basketball 2000 PG-13, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Love and Basketball
Director: Gina Prince
Cast: Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Haysbert, Debbi Morgan, Harry Lennix, Regina Hall, Kyla Pratt, Glenndon Chatman, Tyra Banks
When this story begins, Monica (Kyla Pratt) and Quincy (Glenndon Chatman) are 11 years old. Monica is a tomboy living next door to Quincy; both love basketball. Skip ahead a few years, and both are young adults (Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps) taking advantage of USC basketball scholarships. As they become big stars, the game pulls them together, pushes them apart, and pulls them together. You get the picture.
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The Monkey Hu$tle 1976  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Arthur Marks
Cast: Yaphet Kotto, Rudy Ray Moore, Rosalind Cash, Randy Brooks, Debbi Morgan, Thomas Carter, Donn C. Harper, Lynn Caridine, Patricia McCaskill, Lynn Harris, Fuddle Bagley, Frank Rice, Kirk Calloway
Set, and filmed, in the ghettos of Chicago, this story involves small-time hustler Big Daddy Foxx (Yaphet Kotto) who teaches his "trade" to the younger generation. When their neighborhood is threatened to be torn down to make way for a new freeway, the community comes together to save its homes.
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Relative Strangers 2006   N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Greg Glienna
Cast: Ron Livingston, Neve Campbell, Danny DeVito, Kathy Bates, Edward Herrmann, Christine Baranski, Bob Odenkirk, Ed Begley Jr., Martin Mull, Beverly D'Angelo, Debbi Morgan, Michael McKean, Tracey Walter
Staid, upper-class psychologist Dr. Richard Clayton (Ron Livingston) learns that he is adopted and sets out to find his birth parents. He is successful, but they turn out to be the unrefined and crude Agnes and Frank Menure (Kathy Bates and Danny DeVito), and Richard's orderly life takes a nightmarish turn. 1 User Review
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| | Laughed My Ass off | dmorey 02/10/2007 | | Really funny. Danny Devito is great. I really liked this film, a tiotal surprise. |
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Woman Thou Art Loosed 2004 R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Schultz
Cast: Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Debbi Morgan, Michael Boatman, Clifton Powell, Idalis DeLeon, T.D. Jakes, Sean Blakemore, Philip Bolden, Jordan Moseley, Amy Aquino
Based on the Reverend T.D. Jakes' self-help book and play, this story traces death-row inmate Michelle Jordan's (Kimberly Elise) struggles that ultimately led to her imprisonment on a murder charge and continues through her talks with Jakes, which lead to her being set free and on the road to spiritual recovery.
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| 1. Asunder (1999)
2. Coach Carter (2005)
3. Eve's Bayou (1997)
4. The Hurricane (1999)
5. The Jesse Owens Story (1984)
6. Love & Basketball (2000)
aka: Love and Basketball
7. The Monkey Hu$tle (1976)
8. Relative Strangers (2006)
9. Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)
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