 Beat Street 1984  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Stan Lathan
Cast: Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis, Jon Chardiet, Leon W. Grant, Saundra Santiago, Lee Chamberlin, Mary Alice, Shawn Elliott, Jim Borrelli, Dean Elliott, Robert(3) Taylor, Antonia Rey, Lee Chamberlin, Franc Reyes, Tonya Pinkins
Bronx hip-hop artist Kenny (Guy Davis) and his dancer brother Lee (Robert Taylor) get involved with college music major Tracy (Rae Dawn Chong) who inspires them to use their talents as the means of rising out of the ghetto. The result is a musical production filled with rap groups, break dancers, and pop singers.
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Playing for Keeps 1986  PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein
Cast: Matthew Penn, Leon W. Grant, Daniel Jordano, Mary B. Ward, Marisa Tomei, Jimmy Baio, Harold Gould, Kim Hauser, Robert Milli, John Randolph Jones
Teenagers come into an inheritance of a run-down hotel and decide to turn it into a kid's resort. Does the plot sound vaguely familiar? This is probably the umpteenth time a story like this has been done.
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| 1. Beat Street (1984)
2. Playing for Keeps (1986)
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