K-PAX 2001 PG-13, 120 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Iain Softley Cast: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard, Ajay Naidu, David Patrick Kelly, Saul Williams, Kimberly Scott, Peter Gerety, Celia Weston, Tracy Vilar, Melanee Murray, John Toles-Bey, Conchata Ferrell, Vincent Laresca
Prot (Kevin Spacey) is arrested at New York City's Grand Central Station after claiming to be an alien. He is sent to a mental hospital where his psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Powell (Jeff Bridges), does not believe him when he tells about coming from the planet K-PAX. Powell becomes obsessed with Prot, but time is running out because Prot tells Powell that he must leave Earth in a few days. Now, Powell is determined to get the truth from him–but can he?
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Slam 1998 R, 100 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Marc Levin Cast: Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn, Bonz Malone, Beau Sia, Lawrence Wilson, Dominic Chianese Jr., Andre Taylor, Momolu Stewart, Taylor Mali, Reamer Shedrick
Filmed as a mock documentary, Ray Joshua's (Saul Williams) story unfolds of a man incarcerated in a Washington, D.C. prison who finds himself in the middle of a tug-of-war between rival gangs. His escape is in writing poetry and eventually getting his life together. Inspired by Paul Devlin's "SlamNation," a documentary about poetry slams (competition) filmed earlier the same year.
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| 1. K-PAX (2001)
2. Slam (1998)
3. SlamNation (1998) aka: SlamNation: The Sport of Spoken Word
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