The Brothers 2001  R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Gary Hardwick
Cast: Morris Chestnut, Shemar Moore, D.L. Hughley, Bill Bellamy, Gabrielle Union, Tamala Jones, Susan Dalian, Tatyana Ali, Jenifer Lewis, Clifton Powell, Marla Gibbs, Julie Benz, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Kimberly Scott, Angelle Brooks
"The Brothers" is a group of close friends–affluent Black professionals Jackson Smith (Morris Chestnut), Derrick West (D.L. Hughley), Brian Palmer (Bill Bellamy), and Terry White (Shemar Moore)–who have problems figuring out what's behind love and commitment in male/female relationships. Complications arise when Terry considers giving up his bachelorhood for marriage. Good comedy.
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 Cars 2006  G, 116 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: John Lasseter
Cast: Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Cheech Marin, Tony Shalhoub, Guido Quaroni, Jenifer Lewis, Paul Dooley, Michael Wallis, George Carlin, Katherine Helmond, John Ratzenberger, Richard Petty
In this animated, family comedy, race car Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) is on its way to the Piston Cup Championships in California when it has an accident in Radiator Springs. The judge, Doc Hudson (voice of Paul Newman), orders Lightning McQueen to do community service, and in the process of trying to get out of work, Lightning bonds with some of Radiator Springs' inhabitants. Among the new acquaintances are the DA, Sally the Porsche (voice of Bonnie Hunt), and Mater the Tow Truck (voice of Larry the Cable Guy), Lightning learns a thing or two about what is really important. An Academy Award nomination was received for Best Animated Feature. 1 User Review
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| | Coolest animated movie ever | Anonymous 03/16/2007 | | This movie is just pure fun and excitement. The adults liked it as much as the kids. |
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Cast Away 2000 PG-13, 143 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Chris Noth, Lari White, Geoffrey Blake, Jenifer Lewis, David Allen Brooks, Nan Martin, Viveka Davis, Peter Von Berg, Dmitri S. Boudrine, Leonid Citer, Anne Bellamy, Dennis Letts
"I'll be right back," Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) tells girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt). In the next scene, he survives his plane's crash landing and floats to a deserted island. Now, he enters a world with no clocks, no meetings, and no people. It represents the direct opposite of Noland's life as a FedEx executive. If he is to survive, Noland must fend for himself to obtain food, fire, and water. Survive he does, and Tom Hanks excels in carrying the storyline by himself through more than half of the film. Tom Hanks was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award.
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 The Cookout 2004  PG-13, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lance Rivera
Cast: Storm P, Ja Rule, Tim Meadows, Jenifer Lewis, Meagan Good, Queen Latifah, Jonathan Silverman, Farrah Fawcett, Frankie Faison, Vincent Pastore, Danny Glover, Kevin Phillips
After signing a multi-million dollar contract to play ball for the New Jersey Nets, Todd Anderson (Storm P) invites old friends and relatives to a barbeque at his newly bought mansion. But, his new neighbors do not get along with the old friends, and trouble prevails.
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Dancing in September 2000   R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Reggie Rock Bythewood
Cast: Nicole Ari Parker, Isaiah Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Jay Underwood, Marcia Cross, Michael Cavanaugh, Jenifer Lewis, Malinda Williams, Mel Jackson, Estelle Harris
Tommy (Nicole Ari Parker) is a TV writer who is looking for a new job after a run-in with her network management. She heads to a new, upstart network to sell her ideas and is interviewed by George (Isaiah Washington), a recently hired executive in the Programming Department. He likes Tommy's ideas and tries to sell them to upper management. Not the greatest show in town, but Parker is a highlight.
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 Dead Presidents 1995  R, 122 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Cast: Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Rose Jackson, N'Bushe Wright, Freddy Rodriguez, Bokeem Woodbine, Martin Sheen, Alvaleta Guess, James Pickens Jr., Jenifer Lewis, Clifton Powell, Terrence Howard, Elizabeth Rodriguez
Anthony (Larenz Tate) leaves his Bronx neighborhood and joins the Marines to fight in Vietnam. When he returns after two tours in Vietnam, he finds his old neighborhood besieged by drugs, and he finds himself sucked into the criminal aspects of his environment when he joins in a plot to rob an armored car. 1 User Review
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| | see | Ahmad 02/23/2008 | | I love N'Bushe Wright |
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Girl 6 1996 R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Theresa Randle, Isaiah Washington, Spike Lee, Debi Mazar, Jenifer Lewis, John Turturro, Madonna, Quentin Tarantino, Naomi Campbell, Halle Berry
Girl 6 (Theresa Randle) is an aspiring actress who takes a job as a telephone-sex operator and finds that she actually likes her new profession.
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Jackie's Back 1999 TV, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Townsend
Cast: Jenifer Lewis, Tim Curry, T.V. Blake, Tangie Ambrose, Whoopi Goldberg, David Hyde Pierce, Tom Arnold, Julie Hagerty, JoBeth Williams, Robert Bailey Jr.
Told in documentary style, this is the story of Jackie (Jenifer Lewis), a former blues singer who hits the comeback trail and gets TV and media coverage of her comeback concert. Lots of cameos.
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Little Richard 2000 TV, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Townsend
Cast: Leon, Jenifer Lewis, Carl Lumbly, Tamala Jones, Garrett Morris, Mel Jackson, Lahmard J. Tate, Anthony Lee, Anthony Griffith, Jonelle Kennedy
Rock & Roll legend Little Richard's (Leon) rise from a poor, Southern child to phenomenal success in music is told in this made-for-TV film.
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Madea's Family Reunion 2006 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast: Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Boris Kodjoe, Henry Simmons, Lisa Arrindell Anderson, Maya Angelou, Rochelle Aytes, Jenifer Lewis, Tangi Miller, Keke Palmer, Cicely Tyson
In this sequel to "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," Tyler Perry wrote, directed, and took on the role of gun-toting grandma Mable "Madea" Simmons who, while planning a family reunion, contends with her unhappy nieces Vanessa and Lisa (Lisa Arrindell Anderson and Rochelle Aytes). She also must deal with a juvenile delinquent, Nikki (Keke Palmer), who has been placed under her care. Despite family troubles in this touching comedy, lessons about love and life are learned. 1 User Review
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| | Excellent, excellent, and excellent | Anonymous 03/23/2007 | | |
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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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 The Mighty 1998  PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Peter Chelsom
Cast: Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin, Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton, Gillian Anderson, James Gandolfini, Meat Loaf, Jenifer Lewis, Joseph Perrino
Kevin Dillon (Kieran Culkin) is a brilliant schoolboy, but he suffers from a rare degenerative disease. Max Kane (Elden Henson) is an almost illiterate giant. The two are a mismatch; however, they team up when Kevin tutors Max, and, together, their imaginations take flight in the mythical world of Camelot.
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Not Easily Broken 2009 PG-13, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bill Duke
Cast: Morris Chestnut, Taraji P. Henson, Maeve Quinlan, Jenifer Lewis, Kevin Hart, Wood Harris, Eddie Cibrian, Niecy Nash, Cannon Jay, Albert Hall, Jeff Krebs, Nathaniel Carter, Brendon Terrell Ferguson, Kwame Boateng, Henry Brown
Dave (Morris Chestnut), who loves baseball and children, enjoys helping troubled kids as their Little League coach. But, his wife Clarice (Taraji P. Henson) has other ideas. She is a career woman and finds that she doesn't have time for children. The breaking point in their marriage comes when Clarice is injured in a car accident. Her mother (Jennifer Lewis) moves in to help, and the gap widens. Physical therapist Julie Sawyer (Maeve Quinlan) comes to Clarice's aid and gives her the inspiration needed for her healing. Meanwhile, Clarice and Dave drift apart, and Dave becomes emotionally attached to Julie.
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 Preacher's Wife 1996 PG, 124 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Penny Marshall
Cast: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance, Gregory Hines, Jenifer Lewis, Loretta Devine, Justin Pierre Edmund, William James Stiggers Jr., Paul Bates, Lionel Richie
A Yonkers church has fallen on financially difficult times when an angel, Dudley (Denzel Washington), enters the picture as the answer to the Reverend Henry Biggs' (Courtney B. Vance) prayers. Dudley, however, becomes enmeshed in a romantic tangle, and the problems he has been sent to solve do not always occupy his thoughts.
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Who's Your Caddy? 2007  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Don Michael Paul
Cast: Big Boi, Andy Milonakis, Faizon Love, Jeffrey Jones, James Avery, Tony Cox, Tamala Jones, Jenifer Lewis, Jim Piddock, Sherri Shepherd, Lil' Wayne, Finesse Mitchell
When famous rapper C-Note (Big Boi) is not accepted for membership at a posh country club by the bigoted club president Cummings (Jeffrey Jones), C-Note buys property next to the 17th hole, he gains admission. C-Note and his friends then begin an assault on the club and its snooty members. But Cummings still attempts to revoke C-Note's membership, and the "fun" continues.
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| 1. The Brothers (2001)
2. Cars (2006)
3. Cast Away (2000)
4. The Cookout (2004)
5. Dancing in September (2000)
6. Dead Presidents (1995)
7. Girl 6 (1996)
8. Jackie's Back (1999)
9. Little Richard (2000)
10. Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
11. Meet the Browns (2008)
aka: Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
12. The Mighty (1998)
13. Not Easily Broken (2009)
14. Preacher's Wife (1996)
15. What's Love Got to Do with It? (1993)
16. Who's Your Caddy? (2007)
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