Clockers 1995  R, 129 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Keith David, Mekhi Phifer, Isaiah Washington, Regina Taylor, Mike Starr, Spike Lee
Violence spirals out of control in this film adaptation of Richard Price's novel about a young Black man who may–or may not–have murdered a drug dealer. Will policemen (Harvey Keitel and John Turturro) determine if it is Strike (Mekhi Phifer), his brother Victor (Isaiah Washington), or someone else who committed the crime?
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 Courage Under Fire 1996  R, 155 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Mystery
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon, Seth Gilliam, Scott Glenn, Regina Taylor, Bronson Pinchot, Sean Astin, Zeljko Ivanek, Kathleen Widdoes, Tim Guinee, Tim Ransom, Mark Adair-Rios
After overcoming his own scandal involving a night tank battle during the 1991 Gulf War, Colonel Serling (Denzel Washington) is now called upon to investigate the bravery of deceased Captain Karen Walden (Meg Ryan) who has been nominated as the first woman to be awarded the Medal of Honor. His investigation results in inconsistencies concerning Walden's leadership of her downed helicopter crew. Ilario (Matt Damon) describes Walden as courageous, but Monfriez (Lou Diamond Phillips) remembers her actions as cowardly–leading Serling to question the wisdom of awarding Walden the Medal of Honor.
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Hostile Waters 1997  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: David Drury
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Martin Sheen, Max von Sydow, Colm Feore, Rob Campbell, Harris Yulin, Regina Taylor, John Rothman, Michael Attwell, Dominic Monaghan, Peter Guinness, Alexis Denisof
In 1986, a Russian nuclear submarine and an American nuclear submarine collided. Based on this true event, the story involves how the submarine captains and politicians react to the volatile situation.
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 Jersey Girl 1992  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Burton Morris
Cast: Jami Gertz, Dylan McDermott, Sheryl Lee, Aida Turturro, Molly Price, Star Jasper, Joseph Mazzello, Joseph Bologna, Philip Casnoff, Pat Collins, Regina Taylor, Amy Sakasitz
A loud-mouth schoolteacher from New Jersey, Sal (Dylan McDermott), meets and gets Toby's (Jami Gertz) telephone number after causing him to crash his Mercedes. He is the man of her dreams: wealthy, good looking, sophisticated. When Toby doesn't call, Sal tracks him down. Romance blooms but is short-lived for two people from very different worlds.
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The Keeper 1995 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joe Brewster
Cast: Giancarlo Esposito, Regina Taylor, Isaach De Bankole, Ron Brice, O.L. Duke, Arthur French, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Samuel E. Wright
A law student, Paul Lamont (Giancarlo Esposito), is also a humanitarian corrections officer who bails out one of his charges, Jean Baptiste (Isaach De Bankole), and brings him home to await trial. In the interim, Paul begins to question his own beliefs in this brooding story filled with psychological underpinnings.
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 Lean on Me 1989 PG-13, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume, Lynne Thigpen, Jermaine "Huggy" Hopkins, Karen Malina White, Alan North, Robin Bartlett, Michael Beach, Regina Taylor
This is the true story of high-school principal Joe Clark and how he turned Patterson, New Jersey's Eastside High from a den of drugs into a model school where students could expect to get a good education.
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Losing Isaiah 1995 R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Cast: Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn, Daisy Eagan, Marc John Jefferies, Samuel L. Jackson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Joie Lee, Regina Taylor, LaTanya Richardson
Social worker Margaret Lewin (Jessica Lange) adopts an abandoned baby. Two years later, recovered crack addict Khalia Richards (Halle Berry) returns to claim her son.
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The Negotiator 1998 R, 135 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: F. Gary Gray
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, Ron Rifkin, John Spencer, J.T. Walsh, Regina Taylor, Siobhan Fallon, Paul Giamatti, Bruce Beatty, Michael Cudlitz, Carlos Gomez, Tim Kelleher, Dean Norris, Nestor Serrano
Lt. Danny Roman (Samuel L. Jackson) is a top-notch police negotiator who discovers that he has been set up and that the police are about to arrest him for the death of his partner and embezzlement of pension funds. In a panic, he seizes the building, holds hostages, and asks for another negotiator, Lt. Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey), to help him make a deal.
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Spirit Lost 1996 R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Neema Barnette
Cast: Leon, Regina Taylor, Cynda Williams, Juanita Jennings, James Avery, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Tamara Tunie, Yvonne Brisendine, J. Michael Hunter, Christopher Northup
A painter and his wife move into an old home on an exotic island. It is not long before a beautiful ghost tries to lure the painter into her clutches and frighten the wife into leaving the island.
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| 1. Clockers (1995)
2. Courage Under Fire (1996)
3. A Family Thing (1996)
4. Hostile Waters (1997)
5. Jersey Girl (1992)
6. The Keeper (1995)
7. Lean on Me (1989)
8. Losing Isaiah (1995)
9. The Negotiator (1998)
10. Spirit Lost (1996)
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