The Andromeda Strain 1971  G, 130 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Ramon Bieri, Peter Hobbs, Kermit Murdock, Richard O'Brien, Eric Christmas, Mark Jenkins, Carl Reindel
A U.S. Army satellite carrying a virus from outer space has crashed on Earth. It has landed in a remote village in the Southwest and has killed everyone, except a crying baby and a wino. Top scientists gather at the site to figure out what is happening. After intense examinations, they isolate the organism–Andromeda Strain–that has caused the deaths. Now the race against time begins as the scientists attempt to find a cure before more people die.
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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling 1986 R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Pryor
Cast: Richard Pryor, Debbie Allen, Paula Kelly, Billy Eckstine, J.J. Barry, Barbara Williams, Wings Hauser, Virginia Capers, Art Evans, Dennis Farina
This is a pretty good movie about a famous entertainer (Richard Prior) who, because of crisis in his life, must take a second look at what he has considered important.
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Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored 1996  PG, 111 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Tim Reid
Cast: Al Freeman Jr., Phylicia Rashad, Leon, Richard Roundtree, Polly Bergen, Paula Kelly, Bernie Casey, Isaac Hayes, Salli Richardson, Anna Maria Horsford, Willis Norwood Jr., Karen Malina White, Damon Hines, Iona Morris, Taj Mahal
Based on Clifton L. Taulbert's book, this is the inspiring story of young Clifton who is born to an unmarried sharecropper and sent to live with his grandpa (Al Freeman Jr.) and then to his loving aunt (Phylicia Rashad). Cliff grows up in Mississippi amidst the Jim Crow laws aimed at keeping him segregated and unable to achieve success in the mid-20th-century American South.
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Soylent Green 1973 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Edward G. Robinson, Whit Bissell, Mike Henry, Dick Van Patten, Stephen Young, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Roy Jenson, Leonard Stone, Celia Lovsky
In New York City during 2020, detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) is aided by Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson) during his investigation of the assassination of Soylent Green executive William Simonson (Joseph Cotton). They uncover a plot by Soylent Corporation to solve society's hunger problems when they learn what really makes up the ingredients of Soylent Green's "food." The story is based on Harry Harrison's sci-fi book "Make Room! Make Room!"
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Sweet Charity 1969  G, 157 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Bob Fosse
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis Jr., Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Stubby Kaye, Barbara Bouchet, Alan Hewitt, Dee Carroll
Recreated from the Broadway hit, this film is good entertainment. It is the story of dance-hall hostess Charity (Shirley MacLaine), a woman with a "past," who Oscar (John McMartin) loves but has trouble reconciling with her lifestyle.
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 Uptown Saturday Night 1974  PG, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney Poitier
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Rosalind Cash, Roscoe Lee Browne, Paula Kelly, Johnny Sekka, Calvin Lockhart
Two sequels, "Let's Do It Again" and "A Piece of the Action," followed this comedy about Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier) and Wardell Franklin (Bill Cosby) who are robbed at a gambling club and then try to regain their losses. Richard Pryor plays an unforgettable character, Sharp Eye Washington. 1 User Review
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The Women of Brewster Place 1989 TV, 200 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Donna Deitch
Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Jackee, Cicely Tyson, Robin Givens, Olivia Cole, Lonette McKee, Mary Alice, Leon, Paula Kelly, Paul Winfield
The inner-city tenements are the setting of this story of the lives of black women and how they cope with life.
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| 1. The Andromeda Strain (1971)
2. Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986)
3. Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored (1996)
4. Soylent Green (1973)
5. Sweet Charity (1969)
6. Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
7. The Women of Brewster Place (1989)
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