Laurence FishburneFilmography

Black Water Transit

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Karl Urban, Brittany Snow

The Alchemist

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Actor-turned-director Laurence Fishburne embarks on his sophomore outing as a screenwriter/director with this adaptation of the Paulo Coelho adventure novel concerning a youthful Spaniard who sets out to claim a vast treasure rumored to be hidden in the Egyptian pyramids. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Read More

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Actors: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, Liza Lapira

Synopsis: Director Robert Luketic adapts Ben Mezrich's best-seller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions to tell the true-life tale of six genius students who used their brains to beat considerable odds. Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) may be shy, but his Read More

Tortured

Actors: Cole Hauser, James Cromwell, Laurence Fishburne, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jon Cryer

Synopsis: An FBI agent in the midst of a crucial undercover investigation resorts to extreme measures in order to prove himself in this crime thriller starring Cole Hauser, James Cromwell, and Laurence Fishburne. FBI agent Kevin Cole (Hauser) is under direct orders from powerful crime boss Ziggy to track Read More

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season 09

Actors: William L. Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Eric Szmanda, Laurence Fishburne, George Eads

Days of Wrath

Actors: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ana Claudia Talancón, Jesse Garcia, Wilmer Valderrama

Synopsis: Wasabi Tuna scripter Celia Fox writes and directs this incisive urban drama exploring precisely how the laws of the jungle still apply in one of the most socially and technologically advanced cities on the planet. Byron Gordon is the wealthy and handsome owner of KIND -- a Los Angeles television Read More

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Actors: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon

Synopsis: The world's most famous team of astronauts-cum-superheroes returns in the effects-heavy sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. As the story opens, Sue Storm (aka The Invisible Girl [Jessica Alba]) and Reed Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic [Ioan Gruffudd]) prepare for their upcoming Read More

TMNT

Actors: Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mako, Patrick Stewart, Mitchell Whitfield

Synopsis: The stars have aligned in an ominous sign, and as a legion of malevolent monsters descends upon New York City to wage war against humanity, the only thing that stands between humankind and certain destruction are four wisecracking turtles with a flair for martial arts and a hearty appetite for Read More

NFL: America's Game - 1986 New York Giants - Super Bowl XXI

Actors: Laurence Fishburne

NFL: America's Game - 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Super Bowl XXXVII

Actors: Laurence Fishburne

NFL: America's Game - 2004 New England Patriots - Super Bowl XXXIX

Actors: Laurence Fishburne

NFL: America's Game - 1977 Dallas Cowboys - Super Bowl XII

Actors: Laurence Fishburne

NFL: America's Game - 1976 Oakland Raiders - Super Bowl XI

Actors: Laurence Fishburne

Bobby

Actors: Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Sharon Stone, Emilio Estevez, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Twenty-two people become unwitting participants in a tragic and defining moment of the 1960's in this period drama from actor and director Emilio Estevez. It's early June in 1968, and the California presidential primary elections are occupying the minds of many in the Golden State, with Robert F. Read More

Mission: Impossible III

Actors: Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Michelle Monaghan

Synopsis: The third entry in Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible film series involves super Impossible Mission Forces (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) being forced back into the field just when he was planning on marrying his girlfriend, Julia (Michelle Monaghan). The agency asks Hunt to save an operative (Keri Russell Read More

Akeelah and the Bee

Crew: Producer

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Keke Palmer, Curtis Armstrong, Tzi Ma

Synopsis: A young girl learns to believe in herself and value her intelligence in this critically-acclaimed, family-friendly drama. Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer) is an 11-year-old being raised by her mother, Tanya (Angela Bassett), who was left on her own after the death of her husband. While Akeelah is a Read More

Bobby Z

Actors: Paul Walker, Laurence Fishburne, Olivia Wilde, Jason Lewis, Chuck Liddell

Synopsis: Ex-Marine and convicted criminal Tim Kearney has been marked for death by a murderous biker gang, and now in order to cheat death he will assume the role of a powerful, recently deceased drug lord in this pulsating crime thriller starring Paul Walker and Laurence Fishburne. When Kearney (Walker) Read More

Five Fingers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Ryan Phillippe, Gina Torres, Touriya Haoud, Saïd Taghmaoui

Synopsis: Writer-director Lawrence Malkin's thriller Five Fingers casts Ryan Philippe as Martijn, a gifted Dutch jazz pianist who flies to Morocco to set up a food assistance program. On Middle Eastern soil, however, he and his security person, Gavin (portrayed by Colm Meaney) are promptly kidnapped by Read More

Assault on Precinct 13

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Drea de Matteo, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo

Synopsis: This action-packed remake of the John Carpenter classic tells the tale of an under-manned Detroit police precinct on its last day of operation that finds itself under siege by a ruthless force that will not stop. This time, a notorious cop-killer and mobster Marion Bishop (Laurence Fishbourne) is Read More

Biography: Keanu Reeves

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Gary Busey, Alice Cooper

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

Mystic River

Actors: Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney

Synopsis: Directed by Clint Eastwood, the mysterious drama Mystic River is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane and adapted by screenwriter Brian Helgeland. Set in an Irish neighborhood in Boston, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave are three childhood friends who are reunited after a brutal murder takes place. Reformed 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

Biker Boyz

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Derek Luke, Orlando Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Lisa Bonet

Synopsis: Two generations of radical bikers face off in this rubber-burning action drama. Manuel "Smoke" Galloway (Laurence Fishburne) is the leader of the Black Knights, an underground motorcycle club. Smoke, like most of his fellow Knights, is a successful white collar worker who can afford fancy leathers Read More

The Blues: The Soul of a Man

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Keith B. Brown, Chris Thomas King, J.B. Lenoir, Skip James

Synopsis: Part of The Blues documentary series on PBS, The Soul of a Man is written and directed by Wim Wenders and narrated by Laurence Fishburne. This installment explores the work of the filmmaker's personal musical heroes: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, and J.B. Lenoir. Through reenactments and Read More

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty

Synopsis: Hosted by Obba Babatunde, this documentary from Passport Productions studies the life and career of African American entertainer Dorothy Dandridge. Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty features interviews with such Dandridge admirers as Brock Peters, Lawrence Fishburne, and Academy Award winner Read More

Osmosis Jones

Actors: Bill Murray, Molly Shannon, Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, the impish impresarios of gross-out comedy, take their body function-inspired humor to new extremes in this mixture of live action and animation. Bill Murray stars as Frank, a zoo worker suffering from the effects of an unknown malady he contracted after eating Read More

Apocalypse Now Redux

Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall

Synopsis: Francis Coppola had more than his share of production difficulties while shooting his epic-scale Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now, including disastrous weather conditions, problems with his leading men (Harvey Keitel was fired after less than two weeks on the project and was replaced by Martin Read More

The Matrix Revisited

Synopsis: Josh Oreck directed this look at the making of The Matrix. In addition to an explanation of the technical achievements, the documentary contains behind-the-scenes footage of stars Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Laurence Fishburne. One of the most informative sections of the film details the Read More

Michael Jordan to the Max

Actors: Michael Jordan, Phil Jackson, Doug Collins, Bob Greene, Bob Costas

Synopsis: Michael Jordan was the most famous, most honored, and probably the greatest professional basketball player of his generation, an athlete whose intelligence, charisma, and dazzling on-court skill helped earn his game a new level of popularity and won Jordan a record six NBA title rings. Michael Read More

Once In The Life

Crew: Director, Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Titus Welliver, Eamonn Walker, Dominic Chianese, Paul Calderon

Synopsis: Actor Laurence Fishburne makes his debut as a director in this urban drama adapted from his one-act stage play Riff Raff. 20/20 Mike (Fishburne) and his half-brother Torch (Titus Welliver) bump into each other under less than ideal circumstances -- both are in jail, Mike on parole violation and Read More

Christianity: The Second Thousand Years [TV Documentary Series]

The Matrix

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Gloria Foster, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: What if virtual reality wasn't just for fun, but was being used to imprison you? That's the dilemma that faces mild-mannered computer jockey Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) in The Matrix. It's the year 1999, and Anderson (hacker alias: Neo) works in a cubicle, manning a computer and doing a little Read More

Always Outnumbered

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Bill Cobbs, Natalie Cole, Bill Duke, Laurie Metcalf

Synopsis: Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist) directed this Walter Mosley script adaptation of Mosley's short story collection, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. Ex-con Socrates Fortlow (Laurence Fishburne) returns to L.A., looks for work, becomes friends with Right Burke (Bill Cobbs), is told he's too Read More

Welcome to Hollywood

Actors: Tony Markes, Adam Rifkin, Angie Everhart, David Andriole, Nicolas Cage

Synopsis: Film director Adam Rifkin spoofs Hollywood's star machine in concocting this fictional "mockumentary" about a director (Rifkin playing himself) who wants to make a documentary film about a rising young star. Anton Markwell (Tony Markes, who co-directed the film) is the object of Rifkin's inquiring Read More

Hoodlum

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Vanessa Williams, Andy Garcia, Cicely Tyson

Synopsis: The white-run Mafia and the black-run numbers game meet head on with explosive impact in this period crime thriller. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) is an African-American ex-con who, after a stay in prison, returns to Harlem at the height of its renaissance before World War II. Read More

Event Horizon

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones

Synopsis: In this sci-fi/horror scarefest, Dr. William Weir (Sam Neill) is a scientist who has designed a spacecraft called Event Horizon which will explore the outer reaches of space past the planet Neptune; the ship employs a special transport mechanism that, in effect, creates a black hole that the ship Read More

Miss Evers' Boys

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Sheffer, Ossie Davis, Joe Morton

Synopsis: Produced for the HBO cable network, this docudrama explores the social and ethical issues at the heart of the infamous Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks With Syphilis. From 1932 through 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service studied 600 poor African-American sharecroppers in Macon County, AL -- 399 Read More

Fled

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin, Salma Hayek, Will Patton

Synopsis: Though serving a prison sentence for using his computer to embezzle from an international corporation, Dodge (Stephen Baldwin) still thinks of himself as an ordinary criminal. His fellow convict, Piper (Lawrence Fishburne), whose basic decency leads him to protect Dodge from an assault by another Read More

Bad Company

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Susan Wooldridge, Laurence Fishburne, Jonny Lee Miller, Ken Stott, Frank Langella, Mark Drewry, Michael Beach, Angus Deayton, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Laurence Fishburne and Ellen Barkin star in this complex tale of former C.I.A. agents who now specialize in freelance espionage. As the film opens, Nelson Crowe (Fishburne) is being interviewed for a position with the Grimes Organization, which focuses on industrial espionage. He is hired by Read More

Higher Learning

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Tyra Banks, Busta Rhymes, Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport, Jennifer Connelly, Ice Cube

Synopsis: This drama examines the personal, political, and racial dilemmas facing a group of college freshmen as they begin their first semester at Columbus University. Malik (Omar Epps) is an African-American student attending on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in Read More

Waterworld

Actors: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: Widely considered to be an expensive failure, Waterworld was an epic vehicle for Kevin Costner, who starred in and co-produced the film, with his friend Kevin Reynolds as director. It was based on a 1986 screenplay by Peter Rader and cost an estimated $235 million, more than any film in history up Read More

Just Cause

Actors: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood, Ed Harris

Synopsis: The novel by John Katzenbach becomes this legal thriller starring Sean Connery as Harvard Law School professor Paul Armstrong. A legal expert whose days of trying cases are long behind him, Armstrong is moved by a plea he receives from a Florida death row inmate, Bobby Earl (Blair Underwood). It 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

Othello

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Irène Jacob, Kenneth Branagh, Nathaniel Parker, Michael Maloney

Synopsis: Actor Oliver Parker made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the tragic play by William Shakespeare that abridges the original text by half and ups the quotient of sex and violence. Laurence Fishburne stars as the Moorish general Othello, who returns a hero after crushing an invasion Read More

The Wild West [TV Documentary Series]

Synopsis: A ten-part series of some 3500 photos, sketches, and paintings of myths of the American West between the end of the Civil War to 1900. Includes first-person narratives, anecdotes, newspaper accounts, journals, and letters covering Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson Read More

What's Love Got to Do with It?

Actors: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Jenifer Lewis, Phyllis Stickney

Synopsis: What's Love Got to Do With It? is the filmed biography of R&B/pop singer Tina Turner (Angela Bassett), documenting her efforts to break away from her abusive husband Ike (Laurence Fishburne). After a few scenes detailing Tina's life as a young singer in Nutbush, TN, she's discovered by Ike Turner Read More

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Max Pomeranc, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Searching for Bobby Fischer was inspired by the life of chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin, as written by his father Fred Waitzkin. Josh (Max Pomeranc) is a "regular kid" who begins evincing signs of being a genius at chess. His father (Joe Mantegna) encourages this, hoping that it won't fundamentally Read More

Deep Cover

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria Dillard, Charles Martin Smith, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Laurence Fishburne plays no-nonsense LAPD narc Russell Stevens, Jr., who has worked all his life to expunge the memory of his dope-addict father, whom he saw die in a liquor-store robbery. DEA agent Jerry Carver (Charles Martin Smith) orders Stevens to work as an undercover operative on a major Read More

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Actors: Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: An intimate look at the making of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 classic Apocalypse Now, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse combines the usual documentary interviews with outtakes from the film and rare documentary footage, some shot on the set by Eleanor Coppola. Not long after the arrival Read More

Boyz 'N the Hood

Actors: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Morris Chestnut, Ice Cube, Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Nia Long

Synopsis: Director John Singleton's debut chronicles the trials and tribulations of three young African-American males growing up in South Central Los Angeles. When young Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a bright underachiever, begins to show signs of trouble, his struggling professional mother (Angela Basset) sends Read More

Class Action

Actors: Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Colin Friels, Joanna Merlin, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: A pair of lawyers must balance their professional principles (such as they are) against family loyalties in this courtroom drama. Jedediah Ward (Gene Hackman) is a leftist lawyer who has based his career on helping people avoid being taken for a ride by the rich and powerful; he's pursued Read More

Cadence

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Beach, Blu Mankuma

Synopsis: When a young Caucasian military man is thrown into an all African-American barracks for punishment, he slowly earns the respect of his peers while they all are forced to contend with the prejudicial acts of a racist sergeant. Charlie Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Martin Sheen (who also directed) and Read More

King of New York

Actors: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes

Synopsis: The gritty underbelly of New York's complex, ethnically divided criminal world is exposed in this dark drama from director Abel Ferrara. Christopher Walken stars as Frank White, a drug lord who's just been released from a long stint in prison. Aware that feeding off of society's depravity has made Read More

Decoration Day

Synopsis: Originally airing on the Hallmark Hall of Fame, this made-for-television adaptation of a novel by John William Corrington tells the story of a retired judge who decides to find out why his old pal is refusing to accept the Medal of Honor he should have been awarded years before. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Open House

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: It's time to redecorate the Playhouse, and it promises to be a noisy event inasmuch as today's secret word is "House." (SCREAM REAL LOUD!) Borrowing a page from Tom Sawyer, Pee-wee tricks his friends Cowboy Curtis, Ricardo, and Miss Yvonne into doing all the work. When Reba the Mail Lady arrives Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Tons O' Fun

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: Today's secret word is "Cool," and cool it is when Pee-wee (who's largely absent from this episode) declares that everybody must have fun. Cowboy Curtis responds by singing a ballad to the talking flowers, while Miss Yvonne performs an energetic clog dance and Pee-wee himself lyp-synchs to Bob Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: I Remember Curtis

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: The discovery of Cowboy Curtis' magic lasso sparks pleasant memories of Pee-wee's rope-spinning buddy. Through the magic of flashbacks, we are treated to such previous series highlights as Curtis' rendition of "The More Song" (from "Store") and his very special date with Miss Yvonne (from "The Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Let's Play Office

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: "Let's play office!" shouts Pee-wee, whereupon he and Miss Yvonne alternate between "boss" and "secretary" for seveal thrilling minutes. Before long, their ersatz office is visited by Cowboy Curtis, who has brought along a new pal: A talking cactus. And as if this wasn't enough excitement for one Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Pee-Wee's Store

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: Hopping into the Magic Screen, Pee-wee and Cowboy Curtis have a high old time with a railroad handcart -- at least until a speeding train chases them back to reality. Today's secret word, "More", inspires Curtis to perform the celebrated "The More Song". And when Curtis and Miss Yvonne go shopping Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Pajama Party

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: It's a sleepover when Pee-wee and Miss Yvonne plan a pajama party. Cowboy Curtis despairs because he hasn't any PJs, until Jambi comes to the rescue. And when Pee-wee declares that he loves his fruit salad, Roger the Monster quips "Then why don't you marry it?" -- whereupon our hero replies "All Read More

Red Heat

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O'Ross, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a taciturn law-enforcement officer from Russia. James Belushi co-stars as a wise-lipped Chicago cop. Though they go together like caviar and White Castles, they are forced to team up to collar the Soviet Union's most notorious drug lord. Thus does director Walter Hill Read More

School Daze

Actors: Kadeem Hardison, Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell, Kyme, Joe Seneca, Ossie Davis

Synopsis: Fraternity and sorority members clash with the other students at a historically black university in this politically charged musical, which marked the sophomore feature from director Spike Lee. Dap (Laurence Fishburne) is a politically conscious brother who leads anti-apartheid demonstrations and Read More

Cherry 2000

Actors: Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Ben Johnson, Tim Thomerson, Harry Carey, Jr., Brion James

Synopsis: In this arch sci-fi sex comedy-cum-action extravaganza, a hard-nosed female mercenary helps a hapless yuppie find a new body for his robot girlfriend in the post-industrial wasteland of the American Southwest. In the year 2017, what little remains of civilization feeds off the scrap heap of 20th Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Season 03

Actors: Paul Reubens, Lynne Stewart, John Paragon, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Season three of Pee-Wee's Playhouse finds the irrepressible Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) and the whole Playhouse gang (human and otherwise) back for even more hilarious adventures -- though not as many adventures as in previous seasons, inasmuch as only a handful new episodes were produced. In "I Remember Curtis Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Playhouse Day

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: Poor Pee-wee has no one to play with: all his friends are working. What to do? Make "Playhouse Day" a legal holiday, allowing everyone a 24-hour vacation -- even the King of Cartoons, who never gets a day off. And there are an abundance of screams thanks to today's secret word, "Thing." Read More

Gardens of Stone

Actors: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Set in Washington D.C. during the Vietnam War era, Gardens of Stone concentrates on the trials and tribulations of the Arlington National Cemetery home guard. James Caan plays career soldier Sgt. Clell Hazard, who has come to the sad conclusion that Vietnam is unwinnable and that America should Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Ice Cream Soup

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: The very first episode of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, "Ice Cream Soup," was seen on September 13, 1986. Here we meet all the gang: Cowboy Curtis, Miss Yvonne, Conky, Jambi, and the King of Cartoons (here played by Gilbert Lewis). Courtesy of Conky, we're given the first-ever secret word: "Door." Forced Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Season 02

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: The big news for season two of Pee-Wee's Playhouse is the selfsame Playhouse's "new look"--which extends to redesigning several puppet characters, notably Globey. Though Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens), Miss Yvonne (Lynne Stewart), Cowboy Curtis (Laurence Fishburne), and many other regulars are Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Luau for Two

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: Today's secret word is "Fun." But it's no fun for Pee-wee when, after correctly answering a call-in quiz, he wins a dinner for two at a fancy Hawaiian restaurant. Oh, he likes Hawaiian food, but how can he choose a single dining companion amongst all his friends (even Countess the Cow is lobbying Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Playhouse in Outer Space

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: Pee-wee is confused when Conky produces today's magic word: "Zyzzybalubah." But sure enough, the magic word is spoken, whereupon the entire Playhouse gang is whisked into Outer Space, including visitor Reba the Mail Lady. Landing on a mysterious red planet, our friends confront a squeaky-voiced Read More

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Craig Wasson, Robert Englund

Synopsis: The best of the Elm Street sequels, this creepy, surreal fantasy features terrific effects, a fine young cast, and an air of grim fatalism that sets it apart from its giggly successors. Patricia Arquette stars as Kristen, whose nightmare leads to a slashed wrist which looks suspiciously like a Read More

The Father Clements Story

Actors: Louis Gossett, Jr.

Synopsis: In this provocative made-for-television drama, an African American Chicago priest takes on the Catholic church during his fight to adopt a troubled teen and save him from life on the streets. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Band of the Hand

Actors: Stephen Lang, Michael Carmine, Lauren Holly, John Cameron Mitchell, Daniele Quinn, James Remar

Synopsis: Former Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser warmed the director's chair for Band of the Hand. The film zeroes in on five juvenile delinquents who are plucked from their various detention facilities and unceremoniously dumped in the wilds of the Everglades. The boys begin to panic until Read More

Quicksilver

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos, Andrew Smith

Synopsis: In this underscripted and not wholly convincing drama, Kevin Bacon plays Jack Casey, an up-and-coming broker who crashes on the stock market one day and cashes in whatever he has left to become a bicycle messenger in San Francisco. Although not exactly a logical alternative, bicycling the hilly Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Party

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: The secret word is "This" on this (SCREAM REAL LOUD!) episode. Pee-wee throws a party and invites all the gang, including Cowboy Curtis, Captain Carl, Miss Yvonne and Reba the Mail Lady. They do the hokey-pokey (and turn it all around), then wrap things up with a quick game of "Pin the Tail on Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Now You See Me, Now You Don't

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: Pee-wee's magic show comes to an abrupt end when he disappears for real! He has some fun using his invisibility to play tricks on his friends --- but the fun is over when he's unable to rematerialize. Can Jambi come to the rescue? By the way, today's secret word is "Little", so you know what to do Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: The Gang's All Here

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: Today's secret word is "Okay" --- and as a bonus, everybody gets a secret name in this episode. Pee-wee coaxes his Playhouse pals to sketch his portrait in crayon. He then pays a visit to a mousehole, only to get stuck. Jambi saves the day by shrinking Pee-wee's head, but is it a permanent Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Season 01

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: The 13 first-season episodes of Pee-wee's Playhouse have become such beloved classics that it hardly seems necessary to offer an overview, but here goes anyway: In "Ice Cream Soup," the series opener, Pee-Wee (Paul Reubens) introduces us to his friends Miss Yvonne (Lynne Stewart), Cowboy Curtis Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: The Cowboy and the Countess

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: Today's secret word is "Remember." But Miss Yvonne is more interested in the future than in the past when she asks Cowboy Curtis on a date. The nervous Curtis practices his etiquette with Countess the Cow, then goes on a dress rehearsal for his big evening -- with Pee-wee impersonating Miss Read More

The Color Purple

Actors: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Willard E. Pugh

Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her Read More

The Cotton Club

Actors: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Combining electric song and dance performances with drama (both on and off screen), Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984) looks back to the 1920s-1930s peak of the legendary Harlem nightclub where only blacks performed and only whites could sit in the audience. Mixing historical figures Read More

For Us, The Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

Actors: Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Irene Cara

Synopsis: Howard E. Rollins stars as martyred civil-rights spokesman Medgar Evers, while Irene Cara co-stars as his wife (and future NAACP leader) Myrlie. The film concentrates on the last years of Evers, an ex-insurance agent turned activist. His home in Jackson, Mississippi is besieged by bigots and he Read More

Rumble Fish

Actors: Herb Rice, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: One of two S.E. Hinton novels Francis Ford Coppola directed in 1983, Rumble Fish is a stylized black-and-white film about the death of gang culture in a rough-and-tumble town full of stunted youths. The central character is the strutting Rusty James (Matt Dillon), a foul-mouthed lunkhead clad in Read More

M*A*S*H: The Tooth Shall Set You Free

Synopsis: Charles (David Ogden Stiers) is more obnoxious than ever, thanks to an extremely painful toothache. But despite his agony, Charles is terrified at the prospect of seeing a dentist. Elsewhere, the doctors try to find out why the combat-engineer outfit commanded by a certain Major Weems (Tom Atkins) Read More

Death Wish 2

Actors: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Gardenia, J.D. Cannon, Anthony Franciosa

Synopsis: Paul Kersey's (Charles Bronson) self-appointed one-man vigilante squad goes bi-coastal in Michael Winner's sequel to his Death Wish. Kersey has taken up residence in Los Angeles, but lunatic violence follows him across the country like toilet paper sticking to his shoe. Kersey's Spanish cook is Read More

A Rumor of War

Actors: Brad Davis, Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: The 2-part TV movie Rumor of War was based on the 1977 memoirs of Vietnam veteran Philip Caputo. Brad Davis stars as Caputo, who during the mid-1960s was a Marine lieutenant. In battle after battle, Caputo performs his duties admirably, even when questioning the wisdom of America's Vietnam Read More

Willie and Phil

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Margot Kidder, Ray Sharkey, Jan Miner, Jerry Hall, Natalie Wood

Synopsis: Director Paul Mazursky's follow-up to his 1978 hit An Unmarried Woman found this filmmaker creating a feature-length homage to the François Truffaut classic Jules and Jim. Willie and Phil begins with Jewish intellectual schoolteacher Willie (Michael Ontkean) meeting gregarious Italian-American Read More

Apocalypse Now

Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness to depict the war as a descent into primal madness. Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen), already on the edge, is assigned to find and deal with AWOL Col. Read More

Fast Break

Actors: Gabe Kaplan, Harold Sylvester, Mike Warren, Bernard King, Reb Brown

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of his Welcome Back Kotter success, Gabe Kaplan starred in this hastily assembled theatrical feature. Kaplan plays David Greene, the coach of a Nevada collegiate basketball team. Inasmuch as the local talent is pretty pathetic, Greene convinces a group of jive-talking New York Read More

Cornbread, Earl and Me

Actors: Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash, Bernie Casey, Madge Sinclair, Keith Wilkes

Synopsis: Cornbread (Keith Wilkes) is an African-American youth who strives to escape his ghetto surroundings. He does so by becoming a high school basketball star--and the idol of the other youngsters in his community. On the verge of starting college on a scholarship, Cornbread is mistakenly killed by a Read More