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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Friday Night Lights 2004 PG-13, 117 min.
Genre: Drama / Action
Director: Peter Berg, Josh Pate
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lee Jackson, Lee Thompson Young, Tim McGraw, Grover Coulson, Connie Britton, Connie Cooper, Kasey Stevens, Ryanne Duzich, Amber Heard, Morgan Farris
Based on H.D. Bessinger's novel is about the blue-collar town of Odessa, Texas, pinning its hopes on the1988 football season of the Permian High School Panthers, coached by Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton). The story involves hero-worship, economics, and racism in a world where winning or losing affects the entire community.
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The Hills Have Eyes II 2007  R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Action
aka: The Hills Have Eyes 2
Director: Martin Weisz
Cast: Michael McMillian, Jessica Stroup, Jacob Vargas, Daniella Alonso, Lee Thompson Young, Flex Alexander, Ben Crowley, Eric Edelstein, Reshad Strik, Michael Bailey Smith, David Reynolds, Derek Mears, Jeff Kober, Archie Kao
While on a routine mission, a unit of National Guard soldiers stops at an outpost in New Mexico and finds that the research camp is deserted. The soldiers spot a distress signal in the distant hills and set out on a search-and-rescue mission. What they do not know is that cannibalistic desert-dwelling mutants are waiting with traps set to ensnare the soldiers–and the killings begin, one by one.
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Johnny Tsunami 1999 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Family / Drama
Director: Steve Boyum
Cast: Brandon Baker, Yuji Okumoto, Mary Page Keller, Lee Thompson Young, Kirsten Storms, Zachary Bostrom, Gregory Itzin, Cylk Cozart, Steve Van Wormer, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Gabriel Luque, Taylor Moore, Anne Sward
13-year-old Johnny Kapahala (Brandon Baker) loves and lives in Hawaii. Surfing is his life, and nothing can tear him away from it–aside from the fact that his parents have just dropped the news on him that the family's moving! Of all places, cold, snowy Vermont is where they are heading. Now the coolest guy of the place he came from is falling fast to the bottom in Vermont, where the kids are snobby and disrespectful. As Johnny tries skiing, he comes up with something better, almost like a surfboard! Johnny soon learns how the skiers and snowboarders don't get along, and he'll have to choose his real friends from the rival school, or at his new school where his dad works. (Review by EW)
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Redemption 2004  TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, CCH Pounder, Brenden Jefferson, Lee Thompson Young, Brenda Bazinet, Wes Williams, Greg Ellwand, Tom Barnett, Barbara Barnes-Hopkins
Stan "Tookie" Williams (Jamie Foxx) founded the notorious L.A. street gang, the Crips, and, in 1981, was convicted of murdering four people. While sentenced to death row, he takes on a new role of writing children's books that encourage anti-violence. One year after this movie was shot, Williams was executed.
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| 1. Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
2. Friday Night Lights (2004)
3. The Hills Have Eyes II (2007)
aka: The Hills Have Eyes 2
4. Johnny Tsunami (1999)
5. Redemption (2004)
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