3 Strikes 2000  R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: DJ Pooh
Cast: Brian Hooks, N'Bushe Wright, Faizon Love, E-40, David Alan Grier, Dean Norris, Starletta DuPois, George(2) Wallace, Mike Epps, Meagan Good, Bennet Guillory
DJ Pooh of rap fame wrote and directed this urban comedy/drama centered on Rob (Brian Hooks) who has just been released from jail. But–he now has two strikes and one more will be a major problem. So, when his friend shoots a cop who stops the car that Rob is riding in, Rob escapes, determined to clear himself. Little appeal to most people.
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Big Momma's House 2000   PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Raja Gosnell
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti, Jascha Washington, Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson, Ella Mitchell, Carl Wright, Phyllis Applegate, Starletta DuPois
FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence) goes undercover as "Big Momma" and stakes out the home of a federal witness in this comedy that sets Women's Lib back more than a few years. 2 User Reviews
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| | Anonymous 08/31/2009 | | I am not a person who watches comedies but this man had me in stitches. He is so natural and I can tell just by watching him that he would be someone that I would want as a friend. I am absolutely a fan. |
| | Anonymous 08/01/2009 | | absolutely hillarious |
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Convicts 1991  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Masterson
Cast: Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas, James Earl Jones, Starletta DuPois, Carlin Glynn, Gary Swanson, Mel Winkler, Calvin Levels
Adapted from Horton Foote's play, this film is about young Horace Robedaux (Lukas Haas) and his lesson learned about injustice in the early 1900s' South as taught to him by Soll Gautier, a senile plantation-owner who uses Black convicts for back-breaking field labor. This film and "On Valentine's Day" are prequels to "1918."
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Full Circle 1996  TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Danielle Steel's 'Full Circle'
Director: Bethany Rooney
Cast: Teri Polo, Corbin Bernsen, Rod Biermann, Reed Diamond, Erika Slezak, Eric Lutes, Allison Smith, Starletta DuPois, Mark Kiely, James Read, Sue Casey, Alice Carter, Nicolas Coster, Robert Curtis Brown, Mary Kate McGeehan
Traumatized by rape as a young girl, Tana Roberts (Teri Polo) struggles with her past by throwing herself into her career–with an affair along the way ending in disaster and bringing her full circle back to her career world. Based on Danielle Steele's novel.
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 The Notebook 2004  PG-13, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, James Marsden, Sam Shepard, David Thornton, Joan Allen, Kevin Connolly, Starletta DuPois, Ed Grady, Heather Wahlquist
As the film opens, elderly and senile Allie (Gena Rowlands) is visited daily in her hospital room by a fellow resident known as Duke (James Garner) who tries to get her to remember the past by reading to her from her notebook. The notebook reveals a 1940s' romance between Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling) that was broken off because of a disparity in social class. Could Duke be the young Noah? What do you think? 4 User Reviews
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| | Sooo romantic | Anita 10/26/2009 | | Absolutely loved it...watched it many times over!! |
| | Anonymous 12/22/2007 | | Loved it! |
| | Anonymous 03/19/2007 | | I was completely caught up in this romance novel, such, that I had to look for it online. I never got to see the beginning and definitely loved how you go back and forth from the 1940s to the present. |
| | Anonymous 01/14/2007 | | The Best love story I have ever seen |
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure 1985 PG, 96 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Adventure
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Diane Salinger, Mark Holton, Judd Omen, Irving Hellman, Lou Cutell, Phil Hartman, James Brolin, Morgan Fairchild, Monte Landis, Damon Martin, Daryl Keith Roach, Starletta DuPois, Jon Harris
Pee-Wee Herman's (Paul Reubens) beloved fire-engine-red bicycle has been stolen, and a fortune teller tells him to look for it in the basement of the Alamo. Now, Pee-Wee begins his cross-country trip to the Alamo. Along the way, he meets an assortment of crazy characters–including a waitress (Diane Salinger) being tracked down by her boyfriend (Jon Harris) who catches up with them and chases Pee-Wee around a park filled with dinosaur models. An entertaining film.
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A Raisin in the Sun 1989 TV, 170 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bill Duke
Cast: Esther Rolle, Danny Glover, Helen Martin, Joseph C. Phillips, Starletta DuPois, Louis Gossett Jr., Kimble Joyner, John Fiedler, Kim Yancey, Lou Ferguson, Stephen Henderson
In the era just before the Civil Rights Movement a poor Black family–Lena (Esther Rolle), her son Walter Lee (Danny Glover), his wife Ruth (Starletta DuPois), and their college-age daughter Beneatha (Kim Yancy)–deals with bigotry as they hope to use a $10,000 inheritance to move out of the projects on Chicago's South Side and move into the all-White suburbs.
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| 1. 3 Strikes (2000)
2. Big Momma's House (2000)
3. Convicts (1991)
4. Full Circle (1996)
aka: Danielle Steel's 'Full Circle'
5. Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
6. The Notebook (2004)
7. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
8. A Raisin in the Sun (1989)
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