Ambushed 1998  R, 100 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Cast: Courtney B. Vance, Jeremy Lelliott, Virginia Madsen, William Forsythe, David Keith, Bill Nunn, Charles Hallahan, Robert Patrick, William Sadler, Carl Espy
Racial problems loom when a black cop, Jerry Robinson (Courtney B. Vance), tries to protect a boy who happens to be the only witness to his Ku Klux Klan father's murder.
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Blind Faith 1998  R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Cast: Charles S. Dutton, Courtney B. Vance, Kadeem Hardison, Lonette McKee, Garland Whitt, Karen Glave, Jeff Clarke, Nancy Herard, Jim Jones, Alex Karzis
Set in 1957, a young Black, Charles Williams (Charles S. Dutton), is accused of murdering a young White. Charles' uncle, John Williams (Courtney B. Vance), steps in to defend him and to uncover the truth behind the killing.
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Bones 2001  R, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Cast: Snoop Dogg, Pam Grier, Michael T. Weiss, Clifton Powell, Ricky Harris, Bianca Lawson, Khalil Kain, Merwin Mondesir, Sean Amsing, Ron Selmour
The ghost of Jimmy Bones (Snoop Dogg) returns after 20 years to avenge his murder and to rid his old neighborhood of drug-infested crime.
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Bulletproof 1996 R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Action / Adventure
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Cast: Adam Sandler, James Caan, Kristen Wilson, Damon Wayans, Jeep Swenson, James Farentino, Larry McCoy, Allen Covert, Mark Roberts, Bill Nunn, Mark Casella, Monica Potter, Andrew Shaifer, Jonathan Loughran, Steve White
Keats (Damon Wayans) and Moses (Adam Sandler) are friends involved in small-time criminal acts. But, Keats is really undercover cop Jack Carter who is plotting to use Moses in a sting operation to catch drug kingpin Colton (James Caan). The plans fail, and, later, Moses turns himself in. Now, Carter must transport Moses to L.A. and, during the trek, Colton's assassins are on their trail.
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 Demon Knight 1995 R, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight
Director: Gilbert Adler, Ernest R. Dickerson
Cast: Billy Zane, William Sadler, John Kassir, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder, Dick Miller, Thomas Haden Church, John Schuck, Gary Farmer
Based on the HBO series, this is a poor try at bringing the series to movie status. Brayker (William Sadler), the long-lived warrior who fights evil, is on the run from the Collector (Billy Zane) who intends to send the universe into Chaos.
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Futuresport 1998  R, 90 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Cast: Dean Cain, Vanessa Williams, Wesley Snipes, Valerie Chow, Adrian Hughes, Bill Smitrovich, JR Bourne, Tara Frederick, Matthew Walker, Francoise Yip
The year is 2025, and futuresport (a combination of basketball and roller derby) is the medium through which an international dispute is to be settled.
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Good Fences 2003 R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Cast: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Zachary Simmons, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Ashley Archer, Mo'Nique, Marie Cruz, Vincent McCurdy-Clark, Matthew Brown, Chris Collins, Norma Dell'Agnese, Roger Dunn
Tom (Danny Glover) has worked hard to make a name for himself as a successful African-American attorney. After winning a big case, his promotion allowed the family to move to an upscale suburb. But new challenges lie ahead when the neighbors don't take to African-Americans in their midst
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 Juice 1992  R, 94 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Cast: Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine "Huggy" Hopkins, Khalil Kain, Cindy Herron, Vincent Laresca, Samuel L. Jackson, George Gore II, Grace Garland, Queen Latifah, Bruklin Harris, Victor Campos
Four friends–Q (Omar Epps), Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Raheem (Khalil Kain, and Steel (Jermaine "Huggy" Hopkins)–spend their time in the violent ghetto skipping school, getting involved in gang fights, and hanging out. When the most violent of the group, Bishop, wants to rob a store, Q is reluctant but finally agrees. During the robbery, a clerk is shot and things go downhill from there.
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 Never Die Alone 2004 R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Cast: David Arquette, DMX, Michael Ealy, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Clifton Powell, Antwon Tanner, Jennifer Sky, Luenell Campbell, Keesha Sharp, Drew Sidora, Aisha Tyler, Rhoda Jordan
Recently slain drug dealer King David (DMX) tells this story through flashbacks that are made possible when an aspiring journalist (David Arquette) recreates events through King David's audio tapes, which provide an oral history of his days in the drug world.
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Our America 2002 R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Cast: Josh Charles, Roderick Pannell, Brandon Hammond, Vanessa Williams, Serena Lee, Irma P. Hall, Peter Paige, Mykelti Williamson, Gene Mack, Neil Crone, Chris Collins, Dan Willmott
After teenagers Lloyd Newman (Brandon Hammond) and LeAlan Jones (Roderick Pannell) are hired by NPR to work as reporters, they use past knowledge to uncover the gang that was responsible for a five-year-old boy being tossed from a 14th-story window in one of Chicago's housing projects.
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Surviving the Game 1994 R, 96 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Cast: Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey, F. Murray Abraham, John C. McGinley, William McNamara, Jeff Corey, Bob Minor, Lawrence C. McCoy
Mason (Ice-T) is hired as a guide for hunters who want to go to the Pacific Northwest. Once there, Mason discovers that he is to be their hunted prey.
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| 1. Ambushed (1998)
2. Blind Faith (1998)
3. Bones (2001)
4. Bulletproof (1996)
5. Demon Knight (1995)
aka: Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight
6. Futuresport (1998)
7. Good Fences (2003)
8. Juice (1992)
9. Never Die Alone (2004)
10. Our America (2002)
11. Surviving the Game (1994)
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