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A Thousand Words (2012)
A Thousand Words is a 2012 American comedy-drama film directed by Brian Robbins from a script by Steve Koren and starring Eddie Murphy. It was released in theaters on March 9, 2012, four years after it was filmed, to negative reviews from critics, receiving a 0% rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. It was a box office bomb, having grossed j...
Starring: Jack McBrayer•Shelley Winters•Dane Clark•Jackie Robinson•Ruby Dee•Leonard Nimoy•Sidney Poitier•Harry Belafonte•Ray Walston•Johnny Nash
American Gangster (2007)
American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian. The film is fictionally based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before...
Starring: Jack McBrayer•Peter Falk•Brock Peters•Ossie Davis•Tony Musante•Martin Sheen•Raymond St. Jacques•Max Julien•Dom DeLuise•Malcolm McDowell
Oprah Winfrey Presents Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 2005 American television drama film based upon Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Darnell Martin, written by Suzan-Lori Parks, Misan Sagay, and Bobby Smith Jr., and produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions. It stars Halle Berry, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and Michael Ealy, a...
Starring: Jack McBrayer•Russell Crowe•Teri Garr•John Heard•Annette O'Toole•Denzel Washington•Christopher Lloyd•Armand Assante•Kim Cattrall•Kathleen Turner
Baby Geniuses (1999)
Baby Geniuses is a 1999 American family comedy film directed by Bob Clark and written by Clark and Greg Michael based on a story by Clark, Steven Paul, Francisca Matos, and Robert Grasmere, and starring Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, and Ruby Dee.
Starring: Jack McBrayer•Peter MacNicol•Eddie Murphy•Nastassja Kinski•Josh Brolin•Rob Lowe
A Simple Wish (1997)
A Simple Wish is a 1997 American children's-fantasy-comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie, and starring Martin Short, Mara Wilson, and Kathleen Turner. The film is about a bumbling male fairy godmother named Murray (Short), who tries to prove himself capable by helping a young girl named Annabel (Wilson) fulfill her wish that her father, an aspir...
Starring: Jack McBrayer•Richard Edson•Josh Brolin•John Turturro•Wesley Snipes•Martin Short•Miguel Ferrer•Adam Storke
The Stand (1994)
The Stand is a 1994 American post-apocalyptic television miniseries based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Stephen King. King also wrote the teleplay and has a minor role in the series. It was directed by Mick Garris, who previously directed the original King screenplay/film Sleepwalkers (1992). In order to satisfy expectations from King fans ...
Starring: Jack McBrayer•Spike Lee•Allison Janney•Rosie Perez•Matt Frewer•Corin Nemec•Laura San Giacomo•Annabella Sciorra•Samuel L. Jackson•Jon Polito
Jungle Fever (1991)
Jungle Fever is a 1991 American romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Spike Lee. The film stars Lee, Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, Lonette McKee, John Turturro, Frank Vincent, Halle Berry, Tim Robbins, Brad Dourif, Queen Latifah, Michael Imperioli, and Anthony Quinn, and is Lee's fifth f...
Starring: Halle Berry•Jack McBrayer•Allison Janney•Cliff Curtis•Robert Pastorelli•Michael Ealy•Terrence Howard•Gabriel Casseus•Russell Crowe
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. It stars Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, and Samuel L. Jackson, and is the feature film debut of Martin Lawrence and Rosie Perez. The story explores a Brooklyn neighborhood's si...
Starring: Jack McBrayer•Allison Janney•John Witherspoon•Kerry Washington•Cliff Curtis•Justina Machado•Michael Ealy•Kevin Daniels•Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Cat People (1982)
Cat People is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, and Annette O'Toole. It is a remake of the 1942 RKO Radio Pictures film of the same name. Giorgio Moroder composed the film's score, including the theme song, which features lyrics and vocals by David Bowie. ...
Starring: Jack McBrayer•Misan Sagay•Bobby Smith Jr. (teleplay)•Clark Duke•Lennie Loftin
Black Girl (1972)
Black Girl is an American family drama film with a screenplay by J.E. Franklin, based on her 1969 play, and directed by Ossie Davis. The film explores issues and experiences of black womanhood in the 1970s, including how black women were depicted and common stereotypes of the period. According to Melvin Donalson in Black Directors in Hollywood, "Bl...
Starring: Jack McBrayer•Shelley Winters•Dane Clark
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
Buck and the Preacher is a 1972 American Western film released by Columbia Pictures, written by Ernest Kinoy and directed by Sidney Poitier. Poitier also stars in the film alongside Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee.
Starring: Jack McBrayer•Martin Sheen•Leonard Nimoy
Uptight (1968)
Uptight is a 1968 American drama film directed by Jules Dassin. It was intended as an updated version of John Ford's 1935 film The Informer, based on the book of the same name by Liam O'Flaherty, but the setting was transposed from Dublin to Cleveland. The soundtrack was performed by Booker T. & the MG's. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr....
Starring: Jack McBrayer•Sidney Poitier•Harry Belafonte
The Incident (1967)
The Incident is a 1967 American neo noir crime-thriller film written by Nicholas E. Baehr, based on his teleplay Ride with Terror and directed by Larry Peerce. The film stars Tony Musante and Martin Sheen as two street hoods who terrorize 14 passengers sharing a New York City Subway car, played by an ensemble cast that includes Beau Bridges, Ruby D...
Starring: Jack McBrayer•Johnny Nash•Estelle Hemsley
The Balcony (1963)
The Balcony is a 1963 film adaptation of Jean Genet's 1957 play The Balcony, directed by Joseph Strick. It stars Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant and Leonard Nimoy. George J. Folsey was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Ben Maddow was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award. The film also credits the photographer ...
Starring: Peter Falk•Jack McBrayer•Brock Peters•Tony Musante
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr., and adapted from the 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry. It follows a black family that wants a better life away from the city. A Raisin in the Sun was releas...
Starring: Jack McBrayer•Martin Sheen
Take a Giant Step (1959)
Take a Giant Step is a 1959 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Philip Leacock.
Starring: Jack McBrayer•Raymond St. Jacques•Max Julien
Go Man Go (1954)
Go, Man, Go! is a 1954 American sports film directed by James Wong Howe, starring Dane Clark, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Patricia Breslin, The Harlem Globetrotters and Slim Gaillard. Clark plays Abe Saperstein, the organizer of the Globetrotters. Poitier's character is Inman Jackson, the team's showboating center. Breslin plays Sylvia Saperstein, th...
Starring: Peggy Pettitt•Jack McBrayer•Martin Sheen
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
The Jackie Robinson Story is a 1950 biographical film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Jackie Robinson as himself. The film focuses on Robinson's struggle with the abuse of bigots as he becomes the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era.
Starring: Jackie Robinson•Jack McBrayer