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Actors: John Witherspoon
Synopsis: From his memorable performances as the dog-catching dad in the hit Friday trilogy to his recurring role as "Pops" in The Wayans Brothers, comedian John Witherspoon has kept movie and television viewers in stitches for years. Now, the pop-culture icon who spawned such catchphrases as Read More
Actors: John Witherspoon, Regina King, Gary Anthony Williams, Jill Talley
Actors: Mila Kunis, Jane Seymour, Zoe Saldana, Taryn Manning, Emmanuelle Chriqui, John Witherspoon, Keir O'Donnell
Synopsis: First time filmmaker Eric Amadio offers a honest, sexy, and occasionally crude take on modern relationships in this comedy that uses the act of sex as a springboard to explore larger issues of intimacy and vulnerability. Beginning at the earliest stages of romance, following through to the final Read More
Actors: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Kerry Washington, John Witherspoon, Tracy Morgan
Synopsis: Fate brings a childless couple a bundle of joy -- who happens to have a criminal record -- in this comedy directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. Calvin Simms (Marlon Wayans) is a master criminal who with the help of his friend and sidekick, Percy (Tracy Morgan), plans a daring robbery of a museum where Read More
Actors: John Witherspoon, Kevin Hart, Tom Arnold, Method Man, Snoop Dogg, K.D. Aubert
Synopsis: After an excruciatingly humiliating in-flight experience that culminated in a messy breakup and the untimely death of a dog, Nashawn Wade (Kevin Hart) sues the airline for all it's worth. This turns out to be a more than profitable move on his part; the lawsuit brings him a settlement in the hefty Read More
Synopsis: Comedian and Hollywood Shuffle-director Robert Townsend serves up another batch of satirical sketches in this fourth volume in the Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime series. Along with humorous vignettes featuring the likes of Damon Wayans, Reynaldo Rey, and John Witherspoon, the program includes Read More
Actors: K.D. Aubert, Terry Crews, Don "DC" Curry, Bebe Drake, Starletta DuPois
Synopsis: The gang from Friday and Next Friday are back in this urban comedy, in which Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) have finally moved out of their respective parents' homes and gotten an apartment together. However, a bogus neighborhood Santa Claus (Rickey Smiley) decides to help Craig and Read More
Actors: Eddie Murphy, Kristen Wilson, Jeffrey Jones, Kevin Pollak, Raven Symone
Synopsis: Eddie Murphy returns as a doctor with a gift for talking to animals in this sequel to a box-office blockbuster. Murphy is John Dolittle, who this time around attempts to save an endangered Pacific forest from lumber industry forces by reintegrating an endangered species of bear back into the wild. Read More
Actors: Tim Meadows, Karyn Parsons, Billy Dee Williams, Will Ferrell, Lee Evans, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen
Synopsis: Yet another recurring character from Saturday Night Live makes the jump to the big screen in this comedy. Leon Phelps (Tim Meadows) is the host of a radio call-in show in which he dispenses advice on the fine art of seduction, for which he seems to have quite a talent -- rather surprising, seeing Read More
Actors: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Justin Pierce, John Witherspoon, Don "DC" Curry
Synopsis: In this sequel to the urban comedy Friday, rap music star Ice Cube returns as Craig Jones, a streetwise man from South Central Los Angeles who has a knack for getting into trouble. This time out, Craig is still trying to outsmart neighborhood bully Debo (Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.); after Craig gets Read More
Actors: Master P, A.J. Johnson, Gretchen Palmer, Frantz Turner, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr.
Synopsis: Recording star and rapper Master P is the executive producer, screenwriter, and co-star (with A.J. Johnson of The Players Club) of this comedy about two South Central Los Angeles scam artists operating a business in a vacant lot. Working out of their van, Black (Master P) and Blue (Johnson) deal Read More
Actors: Deon Richmond, Marcus Chong, John Witherspoon, Adrienne-Joi Johnson
Synopsis: Longtime television director Tony Singletary (Married... With Children, Moesha) makes his feature debut with this urban comedy set in a radio station. John Witherspoon stars as Wes, a station director who has his hands more than full with disc jockeys Jordan (Marcus Chong) and Venom (A.J. Read More
Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, John Witherspoon, Anna Maria Horsford
Synopsis: Season four of The Wayans Bros. ended with aspiring actor Marlon Williams (Marlon Wayans) landing a regular role on the network sitcom "Everybody Loves Everybody," and Shawn Williams (Shawn Wayans) finding himself without a means of support when his newsstand burns to the ground. Thus, season five Read More
Actors: Malik Yoba, Melissa DeSousa, John Witherspoon, Fredro Starr, Cedric the Entertainer
Synopsis: In this road comedy, NYC film school grad Leta (Melissa De Sousa) gets a job assisting music-vid director Bleau Kelly (Downtown Julie Brown), and a group of rappers, singers, starlets, and showbiz wannabes sign on for a video to be shot in Florida. The gang gets acquainted on a decaying bus as Read More
Actors: Ernie Hudson, Pam Grier, Margaret Cho, Dante Basco, Duane Martin
Synopsis: A theme of racial harmony underlies this comedy-drama. The couple Joe (Ernie Hudson) and Annabelle Lee (Pam Grier) learn the baby they are adopting is not black but Chinese. As Julian Lee (Dante Basco), reaches teen-hood, his father dies and the adopted boy moves with his mom to Atlanta. Here he Read More
Actors: Tisha Campbell, Rusty Cundieff, Paula Jai Parker, Joe Torry, John Witherspoon
Synopsis: The trajectories of two opposing romantic relationships are fodder for this African-American screwball comedy from co-writer, star, and director Rusty Cundieff. Montel (Cundieff) and Clyde (Joe Torry) stars as friends who couldn't be less alike. An introverted photographer, Montel wants to meet Read More
Synopsis: The Wayans Bros. launches its fourth season with most of its familiar regulars back on the job: Shawn Wayans as hardworking newspaper-stand owner Shawn Williams, Marlon Wayans as Shawn's footloose brother, Marlon, John Witherspoon as the boys' restauranteur father, John "Pops" Williams, and Anna Maria Horsford Read More
Synopsis: Season three of The Wayans Bros. is distinguished by the presence of Ja'net DuBois in the recurring role of Grandma Ellington, who presumptively moves in with her nonplussed grandsons Shawn and Marlon Williams (Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans). Alas, the toothsome Paula Jai Parker has left the series Read More
Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, John Witherspoon
Synopsis: The first season of The Wayans Bros. finds siblings Shawn and Marlon Williams (Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans) sharing the same NYC brownstone, with serious Shawn bringing in most of the money while merry-making Marlon is either goofing off or promoting some wild get-rich-quick scheme. Shawn hopes to Read More
Synopsis: Season two of The Wayans Bros. is shy several regulars from season one, notably Lela Rochon as Lisa, Benny Quan as Benny, and Joanna Sanchez as Lupe. However, series stars Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans are still very much in attendance as polar-opposite siblings Shawn and Marlon Williams, as is John Witherspoon Read More
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
Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, John Witherspoon, Anna Maria Horsford, Lela Rochon
Synopsis: Premiering January 11, 1995, the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. actually stars only two members of that large and apparently ever-expanding family of African-American entertainers. Fresh from their In Living Color success, siblings Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans (who also co-created this series) star Read More
Actors: Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., John Witherspoon
Synopsis: Hard-core rapper Ice Cube, after appearing in such hard-hitting films as Boyz 'N the Hood and Higher Learning, played his first comic role in this picture he co-wrote with frequent musical collaborator DJ Pooh. Craig (Ice Cube) manages to get fired on his day off (though he claims it's through no Read More
Synopsis: Will (Will Smith) falls in love with a girl named Lisa--not Lisa Wilkes, who will appear in later episodes in the person of Nia Long, but instead Lisa Adams, played by A Different World regular Cree Summer. Unfortunately, Lisa has a fearsome father named Augusteus (John Witherspoon), whose concern Read More
Actors: Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Nelligan, Sean Young, Christopher McDonald
Synopsis: Fatal Instinct is an Airplane-style spoof of the late-'80s, early-'90s cycle of erotic crime thrillers. Setting the plot in motion is a kinky murder. Armand Assante plays the cop assigned to the case; he's also the prosecuting attorney; the "Sharon Stone" part is essayed by Sean Young. A dash of Body Heat Read More
Actors: Robert Townsend, Marla Gibbs, Eddie Griffin, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones
Synopsis: Robert Townsend's superhero action comedy underwent much tinkering during post-production, employing four editors to whip the film into shape. Townsend wrote, directed, and produced this urban fable and also stars as Jefferson Reed, a meek substitute teacher in an inner-city neighborhood dominated Read More
Actors: Faizon Love, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Jonell Green, Marques Houston
Synopsis: The first mainstream animated feature film directly aimed at African American audiences, Hyperion Productions' Bebe's Kids is based on a comedy routine by the late Robin Harris. Voiced by Faison Love, Harris endures a "date from hell" when he goes out with the lovely Jamika. His romantic Read More
Actors: Eddie Murphy, Halle Berry, Robin Givens, David Alan Grier, Grace Jones, Martin Lawrence
Synopsis: Eddie Murphy plays Marcus Graham, a hotshot ad exec who's also an insatiable womanizer. He is thus hardly prepared for his new boss, Jacqueline, played by Robin Givens. In terms of things romantic, Jacqueline is nothing more or less than a female version of Marcus -- and now, for the first time Read More
Actors: Martin Lawrence, John Witherspoon, Jedda Jones, Phyllis Stickney
Synopsis: Starring Martin Lawrence and including Mark Curry, Tone Loc, Inez Edwards, John Witherspoon and Rene Jones among many others, Talkin' Dirty After Dark is a behind-the-scenes look at a Los Angeles black comedy club. Lawrence's character, Terry, will seemingly do about whatever it takes to get a gig Read More
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
Actors: Paul Mooney, Robert Townsend, Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans
Synopsis: Actor, director, writer, and producer Robert Townsend presents this second volume of his classic HBO variety show Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime. Originally aired in 1991, the show helped launch the careers of comedians Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans. This collection of comedy sketches Read More
Actors: Christopher "Kid" Reid, Christopher "Play" Martin, Robin Harris, Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell
Synopsis: House Party is an infectious, engaging comedy starring the rap duo Kid 'N Play. Kid (Christopher Reid) decides to throw a party where he plans to blow the roof off the joint with his rhyming skills, so he and his friend Play (Christopher Martin) throw a huge party while Play's parents are away. Read More
Actors: John Astin, Crystal Carson, Rick Rockwell
Synopsis: This third entry in the dumbfoundingly silly "Killer Tomatoes" series continues the low-budget franchise's tradition of bombarding audiences with endless inane sight gags, horror movie in-jokes, and "nudge-nudge, wink-wink" comic asides. This installment finds flamboyant mad scientist Professor Read More
Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Steve James, Isaac Hayes
Synopsis: Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote, directed, and starred in this hilarious parody of blaxploitation films in the comedy I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. Jack Spade (Wayans) returns home from a hitch in the army to find his brother Junebug has died from an overdose of gold chains, leaving his widow Cheryl (Dawnn Lewis Read More
Actors: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Sam Wright, Keith David
Synopsis: Forest Whitaker stars as the brilliant jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker in this elegiac biopic. Director Clint Eastwood pays full homage to Parker's musical genius, but also devotes ample time to the musician's twin demons--drugs and alcohol-which accelerated his death at the age of 34. In Read More
Actors: Robert Townsend, Anne-Marie Johnson, Starletta DuPois, Helen Martin, Craigus R. Johnson
Synopsis: This satirical look at the ambivalent relationship between Hollywood power brokers and African-American performers marked the writing, producing, and directing debut of Robert Townsend. The filmmaker also stars as Bobby Taylor, a struggling actor looking for his big break despite his family's and Read More
Actors: David Naughton, Barbara Crampton, Lance Le Gault, Chick Vennera, Kimberly Evenson
Synopsis: A syndicate of Los Angeles gangsters is kidnapping beautiful young women, drugging them, and forcing them to participate in the filming of pornographic movies. A young woman teams up with a vice cop to try to find her sister, whom she suspects of falling victim to this gang. ~ Brian Gusse, All Read More
Actors: Sondra Locke, Robert Townsend, Christopher Hewett, Larry Hankin, Sidney Lassick
Synopsis: This drama follows an unlikely "ratboy" (S.L. Baird) after he is discovered living in a makeshift shelter in a garbage dump. Along comes Nikki Morrison (Sondra Locke, also the director) who meets the half-rodent, half-human creature and takes him over. She talks to a Hollywood producer and holds Read More
Actors: Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnaz, Catlin Adams, Franklyn Ajaye, Paul Nicholas
Synopsis: Pop singer Neil Diamond stars in this ill-begotten second remake of Al Jolson's seminal 1927 musical The Jazz Singer. The moth-eaten story concerns a cantor's son who desires success as a pop singer, despite the wishes of his imperious father. The film takes place in the present day with Yussel Read More
Synopsis: Willona (Ja'net DuBois) cannot understand why Jeffrey (Rod Perry), her latest boyfriend, has suddenly begun showering expensive gifts upon her and her adopted daughter, Penny (Janet Jackson). Things become painfully clear when the source of the "gifts" is revealed. It seems that Penny's abusive Read More
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