Harry J. Lennix Filmography

Stomp the Yard

Actors: Columbus Short, Meagan Good, Ne-Yo, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Brian J. White

Synopsis: A young man finds that the moves he learned on the street may help him make a better life for himself in this youth-oriented musical drama. DJ Williams (Columbus Short) is a 19-year-old growing up in Los Angeles; while DJ is at heart a good kid and a gifted street dancer, he runs with a dangerous Read More

Fly Like Mercury

Crew: Director

24: Season 06

Actors: Jayne Atkinson, Powers Boothe, James Cromwell, Peter MacNicol, Rick Schroder, James Morrison, Marisol Nichols, Carlo Rota, Eric Balfour, Kiefer Sutherland, D.B. Woodside, Mary Lynn Rajskub

Chrystal

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Lisa Blount, Ray McKinnon, Harry J. Lennix, Walton Goggins

Synopsis: Actor Ray McKinnon (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) makes his debut behind the camera with Chrystal, a psychological drama written, directed, and produced by the long-time character player. The film stars Billy Bob Thornton as Joe, a man who returns home after a 16-year prison stint. Before his Read More

House: DNR

Synopsis: Legendary jazz musician John Henry Giles (Harry Lennix) collapses during a recording session. After Giles' own doctor Marty Hamilton (David Conrad) diagnoses the dread disease ALS, the musician hastily signs a "do not resuscitate" form. Naturally, House (Hugh Laurie) ignores this document, and as Read More

Commander in Chief [TV Series]

Actors: Geena Davis, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Rumor has it that this weekly, hour-long ABC series about America's first woman president was conceived in anticipation of Hillary Rodham Clinton's likely 2008 presidential bid. Whatever the case, Geena Davis starred as Mackenzie Allen, the politically unaffiliated vice president of popular Read More

Ray

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Clifton Powell, Aunjanue Ellis, Curtis Armstrong

Synopsis: Directed by Taylor Hackford, this biopic profiles the life of legendary musician Ray Charles. Despite humble beginnings and the loss of his eyesight due to glaucoma at the age of six, Charles, depicted by Jamie Foxx, would nonetheless become an icon in both the music industry and the civil rights Read More

Suspect Zero

Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Carrie-Anne Moss, Harry J. Lennix

Synopsis: Directed by E. Elias Merhige, Suspect Zero follows the disgraced FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway (Aaron Eckhart), who was transferred to a desolate area in Albuquerque, New Mexico as punishment for botching a procedure which ultimately led to the release of one of the most notorious criminals on the Read More

Barbershop 2: Back in Business

Actors: Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve, Troy Garity

Synopsis: Kevin Rodney Sullivan steps in to direct the urban comedy sequel Barbershop 2: Back in Business. The whole gang -- Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer), Jimmy James (Sean Patrick Thomas), Terri (Eve), Isaac (Troy Garity), Ricky (Michael Ealy), and Dinka (Leonard Earl Howze) -- are still there in the Read More

The Matrix Revolutions

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith

Synopsis: Shot back-to-back with The Matrix Reloaded, the third and final installment of Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski's sci-fi action saga picks up where the second film left off. Neo (Keanu Reeves) remains unconscious in the real world, caught in a mysterious subway station that lies between the Read More

The Human Stain

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Wentworth Miller

Synopsis: For his first film since 1998's Twilight, acclaimed director Robert Benton helmed this tense drama written by Fatal Attraction co-scribe Nicholas Meyer and based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. Set in the late '90s at the height of the Clinton sex-scandal, The Human Stain stars Anthony Hopkins Read More

The Matrix Reloaded

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith

Synopsis: After creating an international sensation with the visually dazzling and intellectually challenging sci-fi blockbuster The Matrix, the Wachowski brothers returned with the first of two projected sequels that pick up where the first film left off. Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) Read More

Black Listed

Actors: Heavy D, Harry J. Lennix, Calvin Levels, Victoria Rowell, Dick Anthony Williams, Vanessa A. Williams, Robert Townsend

Synopsis: Robert Townsend directs, writes, and stars in the thriller Black Listed. He plays a lawyer who becomes enraged at the number of dangerous criminals who have managed to utilize legal loopholes in order to beat the system and escape prison time. He convinces some friends to join him on a quest to Read More

The Handler [TV Series]

Actors: Joe Pantoliano, Anna Belknap, Ken Weiler, Lola Glaudini, Hill Harper, Tanya Wright

Synopsis: No sooner had actor Joe Pantoliano's character literally lost his head as mobster Ralph Cifaretto on the HBO crime series The Sopranos than he switched to the "right" side of the law on the CBS weekly The Handler. Pantoliano was cast as veteran FBI agent Joe Renato, who was placed in charge of a Read More

All or Nothing

Actors: Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Alison Garland, James Corden, Ruth Sheen

Synopsis: After a rather decided departure with his 1999 homage to Gilbert and Sullivan, Topsy-Turvy, Mike Leigh returns to his usual form for All or Nothing, a melancholy look at the day-to-day lives of a dysfunctional lower-middle class British family called the Bassetts. Timothy Spall and Lesley Manville Read More

Pumpkin

Actors: Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn, Dominique Swain, Marisa Coughlan

Synopsis: Adam Larson and Tony R. Abrams' directorial debut Pumpkin is an unconventional love story. College senior Carolyn McDuffy (Christina Ricci) agrees to coach handicapped athletes from a local town in order to help her sorority win an award. She and her sorority sister Jeanine (Dominique Swain) are Read More

Collateral Damage

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, Cliff Curtis, John Leguizamo, Miguel Sandoval

Synopsis: This action-adventure, that features a terrorist plot from The Fugitive (1993), saw its October 2001 release date moved back four months as a result of real-life terrorist attacks on the United States. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Gordon Brewer, a Los Angeles firefighter who witnesses the deaths Read More

Keep the Faith, Baby

Actors: Harry J. Lennix, Vanessa A. Williams, Russell Hornsby

Synopsis: The life and times of controversial African-American politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr. is chronicled in this made-for-cable biopic. Constructed in Citizen Kane fashion, the film begins as the aging Powell (Harry J. Lennix) recalls his career to an inquiring reporter. From humble beginnings as a Read More

Love & Basketball

Actors: Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Haysbert, Debbi Morgan

Synopsis: A young African-American couple navigates the tricky paths of romance and athletics in this drama. Quincy McCall (Omar Epps) and Monica Wright (Sanaa Lathan) grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also Read More

Titus

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, Harry J. Lennix, Colm Feore, Angus MacFadyen, James Frain

Synopsis: One of William Shakespeare's lesser-known plays, Titus Andronicus was staged in New York by award-winning theatrical director Julie Taymor in an acclaimed 1995 production, before her widely praised Broadway version of The Lion King. Taymor revisits that production for her first motion picture Read More

The Unspoken

Actors: Sergei Shrinev, Martie Sanders, Harry J. Lennix, Laura Hughes, Zaks Lubin

Synopsis: Two emotionally damaged people are thrown together under unfortunate circumstances in this offbeat dramatic feature. After spending 14 years in a mental hospital, Jean (Sergei Shrinev), escapes and hides out in an abandoned motel. Jean, who never speaks, finds his solitude is soon shattered by the Read More

Hellcab

Actors: Paul Dillon, Michael Ironside, Laurie Metcalf, John C. Reilly, Gillian Anderson

Synopsis: This episodic adaptation of Will Kern's seriocomic play follows a Chicago cabbie (Paul Dillon) as he picks up various passengers on the city's South Side on Christmas Eve. Most are observed and let off in brief vignettes: religious nuts, a belligerent Indian man, a defensive lawyer, a druggie on a Read More

Ally McBeal: The Blame Game

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

ER: Calling Dr. Hathaway

Synopsis: Carol (Julianna Margulies) weighs her options as she decides to either pursue medical school or remain a nurse. Carter (Noah Wyle) wonders if he should turn in a fellow intern and former romantic rival for falsifying a patient's record. A couple who delights in concocting potentially dangerous Read More

ER: Faith

Synopsis: Pomerantz (Jami Gertz) refuses to put a woman with Down's syndrome on a heart-transplant list; Greene (Anthony Edwards) and Doyle (Jorja Fox) try to persuade her to change her mind. Now that he is of legal age, Jad Houston (Chad Lindberg), suffering from terminal cystic fibrosis, insists upon Read More

ER: You Bet Your Life

Synopsis: Fearing that something may be wrong with Carla's (Lisa Nicole Carson) unborn baby, Benton (Eriq La Salle) illegally obtains a copy of her ultrasound. Jeanie (Gloria Reuben) finds that she has much in common with would-be suicide patient Suzane Alner (Gia Carides). Anspaugh (John Aylward) refuses Read More

Too Close to Home

Synopsis: 29-year-old defense lawyer Nick Donahue (Rick Schroder) is still tied to the apron strings of his possessive mother Diana (Judith Light)--so much so that, when he tries to move out of the family home, Diana is able to bind him even tighter by attempting suicide. While visiting Diana in the Read More

Friends 'til the End

Synopsis: Some critics pigeonholed the made-for-TV melodrama Friends 'Til the End as a junior version of such theatrical features as All About Eve and Single White Female. A plain-looking, delusional college girl who calls herself Zanne Armstrong (Jennifer Blanc) goes to great lengths to befriend beautiful Read More

ER: Random Acts

Synopsis: The ER staff is galvanized by the brutal beating of Greene (Anthony Edwards) in the men's room. Jeanie (Gloria Reuben) is forced to make several difficult decisions involving the three men in her life. Carol (Julianna Margulies) accuses Ross (George Clooney) of giving preferential treatment to the Read More

ER: Post Mortem

Synopsis: The death of Gant causes a major blowup between Carter (Noah Wyle) and Benton (Eriq La Salle). Ross (George Clooney) uncovers some facts about battered homeless teen Charlie (Kirsten Dunst). HIV-positive Jeanie (Gloria Reuben) dates Greg Fischer (Harry J. Lennix), a specialist in infectious Read More

Get on the Bus

Actors: Richard Belzer, Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, De'Aundre Bonds, Andre Braugher, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Gabriel Casseus, Albert Hall, Harry J. Lennix, Hill Harper, Bernie Mac, Wendell Pierce, Roger Guenveur Smith, Isaiah Washington, Steve White

Synopsis: Released one year to the day after the 1995 Million Man March, in which a million African-American men marched peacefully in Washington, D.C. in a bid for greater unity and understanding, Spike Lee's Get On the Bus follows a group of black men who take a charter bus from Los Angeles to the rally Read More

Clockers

Actors: Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, Isaiah Washington, Keith David

Synopsis: Based on Richard Price's grim best-seller, and directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay co-written with Price, Clockers takes the structure of a police procedural to build a chilling portrait of despair, hope, and the unanswered problem of black-on-black crime in an urban housing project. The Read More

Nothing But the Truth

Comfortably Numb

Synopsis: William Best, a well-heeled Connecticut lawyer, leaves the family firm to work with the Manhattan DA's office. His first friend there is Hamlin Day, whose rise to the top from the ghetto has been as much a struggle as Best's has been a piece of cake. The disparate partners go out on a double date Read More

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Guarding Tess

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn, Richard Griffiths

Synopsis: A man trained for a life of excitement and danger is given a new and unexpected challenge -- minding a grouchy old woman -- in this comedy. Doug Chesnic (Nicolas Cage) is a Secret Service agent who takes great pride in his job, performing his duties with the utmost professionalism and always Read More

Bob Roberts

Actors: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman, Ray Wise, Brian Doyle-Murray, Gore Vidal

Synopsis: In the tradition of This Is Spinal Tap, producer/ director/ star Tim Robbins' Bob Roberts is a satire disguised as a documentary. Robbins plays the titular Roberts, a wealthy, well-connected young man running for a senatorial seat in Pennsylvania. On the surface, Roberts is an ingratiating Read More

Mo' Money

Actors: Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Stacey Dash, Joe Santos, John Diehl

Synopsis: Small-time crook Johnny Stewart (Damon Wayans) decides to go straight to win a beautiful girl (Stacey Dash), and to prove it, he joins the mailroom of the credit-card firm for which she works. Needing money to impress her, Johnny steals a credit card, goes on a shopping spree and wins the girl. Read More

In the Best Interest of the Children

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Sally Struthers, Elizabeth Ashley, Lexi Randall

Synopsis: After being released from an institution, a manic-depressive attempts to get custody of her 5 children and struggles with the opposition of her oldest daughter and the foster parents. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Five Heartbeats

Actors: Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells

Synopsis: Loosely based on the life and times of several R&B artists (The Dells, The Temptations, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke and others) The Five Heartbeats traces the rise and fall of a popular African-American 1950s singing aggregation. The story is told from the point of view of one of the "Heartbeats," Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason listens to the pleas of a 13-year-old girl and helps her father who was falsely accused of murdering a gambler. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Package

Actors: Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Tommy Lee Jones, John Heard, Dennis Franz

Synopsis: The Package, a thriller involving political assassination and intrigue, is an excellent action feature using a familiar theme and providing good performances by the cast. Boyette (Tommy Lee Jones) is a prisoner entrusted to Gallagher (Gene Hackman) for transportation back to the United States. Read More

A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story

Synopsis: A Mother's Courage is the story of Mary Thomas, the mother of Detroit Pistons star player Isaiah Thomas. As portrayed by Alfre Woodard, Mary is a tireless, feisty single mom, struggling successfully to free her large family from the influence of the poverty and crime surrounding her West Side Read More