 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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Caught 1996  R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Robert M. Young
Cast: Arie Verveen, Edward James Olmos, Maria Conchita Alonso, Steve Schub, Bitty Schram, Shawn Elliott, Joe D'Onofrio, Antonio Oliveri, Dominick Oliveri, Sandra Kazan
A drifter, Nick (Arie Verveen), moves into the house of New Jersey couple Joe and Betty (Edward James Olmos and Maria Conchita Alonso) and into the bed of Betty. Now, Joe and Betty's grown son Danny (Steve Schub) moves back to their home and immediately suspects that something is wrong. The situation heats up as Danny takes extreme measures to keep his family together.
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 Double Take 2001  PG-13, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Gallo
Cast: Orlando Jones, Eddie Griffin, Gary Grubbs, Daniel Roebuck, Sterling Macer Jr., Benny Nieves, Garcelle Beauvais, Andrea Navedo, Edward Herrmann, Shawn Elliott
When Daryl Chase (Orlando Jones) is framed for murder and wanted by both the FBI and a Mexican drug cartel, he takes Freddy Tiffany's (Eddie Griffin) passport as his means of escape. Too late, Daryl learns that Teddy is also a wanted man.
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Hurricane 1998 R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Hurricane Streets
Director: Morgan J. Freeman
Cast: Brendan Sexton III, Shawn Elliott, Jose Zuniga, David Roland Frank, Isidra Vega, Antoine McLean, Carlo Alban, Lynn Cohen, Edie Falco, Heather Matarazzo, Mtume Gant, Adrian Grenier, L.M. Kit Carson, Andy Ko, Terry Alexander
Fifteen-year-old Marcus (Brendan Sexton III) is troubled but dreams of leaving his life of petty crime in NYC and moving to the calmer world of his uncle's New Mexico home. "I just want space man," says Marcus, but he is stuck in his world of "Hurricane Streets."
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Short Eyes 1977 R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Slammer
Director: Robert M. Young
Cast: Bruce Davison, Jose Perez, Nathan George, Don Blakely, Shawn Elliott, Mark Margolis, Curtis Mayfield, Miguel Pinero, Tito Goya, Joseph Carberry, Bob Maroff, Keith Davis, Bob O'Connell, Richard Matamoros, Freddy Fender
Based on Miguel Pinero's play, this is a powerful story about prison life. Short Eyes is prison lingo for "child molester," and Bruce Davison takes on that role as prisoner Clark Davis at "The Tombs"–the Manhattan House of Detention–whose fellow detainees treat him as they would the lowest form of life. Many in the cast are not professional actors; instead they are former convicts, and this adds to the believability of the story.
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing 2001 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: 13 Conversations About One Thing
Director: Jill Sprecher
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, John Turturro, Alan Arkin, Clea DuVall, Amy Irving, Barbara Sukowa, Tia Texada, Frankie Faison, Shawn Elliott, William Wise
"What is happiness?" and "How does one find it?" are the questions this film deals with in crisscrossing stories involving New Yorkers whose reactions run the gamut from happiness to self-destruction.
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| 1. Beat Street (1984)
2. Caught (1996)
3. Double Take (2001)
4. Hurricane (1998)
aka: Hurricane Streets
5. Short Eyes (1977)
aka: Slammer
6. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
aka: 13 Conversations About One Thing
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