Allen PayneFilmography

Men Cry in the Dark

Synopsis: Director Je'Caryous Johnson adapts author Michael Baisden's best-selling novel exploring the African-American male perspective on fatherhood, gold-diggers, and interracial romance in this release of a stage performance starring Allen Payne, Richard Roundtree, Rhona Bennett, and Levell Crawford. As Read More

Playas Ball

Actors: Allen Payne, Elise Neal, Anthony "Treach" Criss, Chelsi Smith, MC Lyte

Synopsis: A twenty-seven year old professional basketball player about to sign a lucrative endorsement contract that will set him up for life sees his entire future begin to crumble by the greed of a woman he swears never to have met in a revealing study of the ultra-materialistic "playa" culture starring Read More

Blue Hill Avenue

Actors: Allen Payne, William Forsythe, Aaron D. Spears, William L. Johnson, Michael "Bear" Taliferro, Clarence Williams III

Synopsis: Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Director at the 2001 Urbanworld Film Festival, Blue Hill Avenue focuses on the rise of the drug trade in Boston, as seen through the eyes of three childhood friends. The time is the late '70s, and Tristan (Allen Payne), Money (Aaron D. Spears), E-Bone (William Johnson Read More

30 Years to Life

Actors: Erika Alexander, Melissa DeSousa, Tracy Morgan, Paula Jai Parker, Allen Payne, T.E. Russell, Kadeem Hardison

Synopsis: A handful of close friends, due to turn 30, discover that their dreams for the future are running headfirst into the realities of adulthood in this character-driven comedy-drama. Natalie (Melissa De Sousa) is a banker who is happy with her job, but is tired of being single, and her pursuit of a Read More

Commitments

Synopsis: A woman taking a long hard look at her life finds love along the way in this romantic drama. Fox Giovanni (Victoria Dillard) is a stockbroker who has focused on her career at the expense of her personal relationships and her ties to her family. Fox's high-stress lifestyle eventually leads to her Read More

The Perfect Storm

Actors: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, John Hawkes

Synopsis: In October 1991, a dying tropical hurricane from Bermuda collided with a cold front from the Great Lakes, resulting in a "perfect storm" of previously unknown destructive impact that resulted in 100-foot waves; tragically, the crew of a fishing boat was lost in the midst of the fearsome storm. Read More

Double Platinum

Actors: Diana Ross, Brandy, Allen Payne, Christine Ebersole, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Roger Rees, Samantha Brown, Ed Lover

Synopsis: Two generations of R&B superstars -- legendary Motown diva Diana Ross and teen hitmaker (and star of the TV series Moesha) Brandy -- share top billing in this made-for-TV drama about the troubled relationship between a mother and daughter. Olivia King (played by Diana Ross) is an aspiring vocalist Read More

A Price Above Rubies

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Christopher Eccleston, Glenn Fitzgerald, Allen Payne, Julianna Margulies

Synopsis: Boaz Yakin (a Sundance winner for Fresh) wrote and directed this drama, set in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community, about a young woman who harbors doubts about continuing to follow the path of her religion. Sonia (Renee Zellweger) gives birth to her first child. She wants to name the boy after Read More

The Walking Dead

Actors: Allen Payne, Eddie Griffin, Joe Morton, Vonte Sweet, Roger Floyd

Synopsis: Using relatively unknown actors, first-time screenwriter-director Preston A. Whitmore II examines the effects of the Vietnam War on four black Marines sent on a doomed prisoner-of-war rescue mission. The four men are what's left of a platoon that's been decimated after landing behind enemy lines. Read More

Vampire in Brooklyn

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison, John Witherspoon

Synopsis: Comedian Eddie Murphy tried something different with this 1995 film that he produced and co-wrote, enlisting veteran horror director Wes Craven to give the story some chills. The uneven comedy-horror tale features Murphy as a vampire named Maximillian who arrives in Brooklyn on a ship full of Read More

The Tuskegee Airmen

Actors: Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Based on a true story, The Tuskegee Airmen chronicles the experiences of the first African-American fighter pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Using Hannibal Lee (Laurence Fishburne) as a focal point, the movie follows the airmen from their initial training at Tuskegee, Alabama, through their Read More

Jason's Lyric

Actors: Allen Payne, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bokeem Woodbine, Treach

Synopsis: This drama, set in a gritty part of Houston's outskirts, pits brother against brother as the two men try to cope with their childhood family tragedy. Jason and Joshua are opposites. Jason, an ambitious young TV salesman, is the straight arrow. Joshua, an aimless coke-head and frequently jailed Read More

CB4: The Movie

Actors: Chris Rock, Allen Payne, Deezer D, Chris Elliott, Phil Hartman

Synopsis: Comedian Chris Rock stars in this scattershot satire of rap music in the vein of This Is Spinal Tap. This film within a film begins with A. White (Chris Elliot) screening a rough cut of a documentary he has made of the notorious CB4 rap group -- consisting of group leader Albert, also know as MC Read More

The Cosby Show: Rudy's Retreat

Synopsis: Now that she is a teenager, it is perhaps inevitable that Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam) is going through some rather dramatic mood swings--and that she now considers her parents to be the two most boring people on earth. Having been here before, Cliff (Bill Cosby) commits himself to getting rid of Read More

The Cosby Show: The Price Is Wrong

Synopsis: While on a shopping excursion with her former babysitter Mrs. Whitaker (Leila Danette), Pam (Erika Alexander) is shocked to discover that the chain supermarket in Mrs. Whitaker's neighborhood charges higher prices for lower-quality items than the store owned by the same chain in the Huxtable's Read More

A Different World: Conflict of Interest

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a three-part story, Whitley (Jasmine Guy) adamantly tries to convince everyone (especially herself) that she has fallen out of love with Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison), and IN love with handsome political candidate Byron Douglas (Joe Morton). Elsewhere, Ron (Darryl M. Bell) promises Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: My Brother's Keeper

Synopsis: Will (Will Smith), star player of the Bel-Air Prep basketball team, squares off against Marcus Stokes (Allen Payne), leading player on the Malibu Prep team. Both Will and his opponent are determined to win at all costs--but it means lot more to Marcus, a fellow "homeboy" who may very well lose an Read More

New Jack City

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Allen Payne, Judd Nelson

Synopsis: The ruthless leader of a New York City drug syndicate battles to maintain his power and avoid imprisonment in this fast-moving action drama. While the film's heroes are Scotty (Ice-T) and Nick (Judd Nelson), a pair of tough, streetwise cops, the main focus is their target, drug lord Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes Read More

The Cosby Show: Pam Applies to College

Synopsis: Despite her less than stellar performance in high school, Pam (Erika Alexander) is determined to go to college. Both her friend Charmaine (Karen Malina White) and her guidance counselor Mr. Bostic (Richard Lawson) gently try to persuade Pam that her chances of being accepted by the same college Read More

The Cosby Show: Warning: A Double-Lit Candle Can Cause a Meltdown

Synopsis: In order to attend a "sixteen or over" club where rapper JT Freeze (Special Ed) is performing, Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam) and her friends persuade Cliff and Clair that they're actually going to a "cultural center." Once the truth is known, Lance (Allen Payne), Pam (Erika Alexander) and Charmaine Read More

The Cosby Show: Attack of the Killer B's

Synopsis: Pam (Erika Alexander) is working extremely hard in school, in hopes of attending college. Alas, her cynical boyfriend Slide (Mushond Lee) puts a damper on her plans by reminding her that she'll never be able to afford higher education. Upon hearing this, Pam's teacher Miss Hobbs (Shellye Read More

The Cosby Show: Home Remedies

Synopsis: Olivia (Raven-Symone) comes down with a bad case of laryngitis just before she is to sing for her grandparents' 55th anniversary. When none of the family's exotic "home remedies" prove successful, Olivia retreats to her bedroom, refusing to attend the anniversary party because she feels she's let Read More

The Cosby Show: Period of Adjustment

Synopsis: Erika Alexander joins the cast as Pam Tucker, the 17-year-old second cousin of Clair Huxtable (Phylicia Rashad). Hailing from a poor Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, Pam is rather awestruck by the suburban poshness of the Huxtable household, where she will be staying while her mom is off caring Read More

The Cosby Show: Clair's Liberation

Synopsis: "I'm healthy. I'm in shape. And I'm beginning menopause." Clearly, Clair (Phylicia Rashad) is not troubled in the least about facing the Change of Life. Such, however, is not the cases with the Huxtable children, who are terrified that Clair will rend the household asunder with hot flashes and Read More

The Cosby Show: Just Thinking About It, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single one-hour special), Pam (Erika Alexander) is still being pressured by her boyfriend Slide (Mushond Lee) to begin having sex with him. When Slide gets angry over Pam's insistence upon using birth control, he blurts out that it's Read More

The Cosby Show: Just Thinking About It, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single one-hour special), Slide (Mushond Lee) is pressuring Pam (Erika Alexander) to prove her love by having sex with him: "We both know how we feel about each other, now's the time we did something about it." In his efforts to Read More

Rooftops

Actors: Jason Gedrick, Troy Beyer, Eddie Velez, Alexis Cruz, Tisha Campbell

Synopsis: Set in the Manhattan street milieu that served him well in West Side Story, Robert Wise’s Rooftops tells the story of T, a quiet, soft-spoken teen-ager who has left his broken home and is living in a makeshift shelter in an old water tower on top of an abandoned tenement building. There are other Read More