Lela Rochon Filmography

Intimate Portrait: Lela Rochon

Labor Pains

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Rob Morrow, Kyra Sedgwick

Synopsis: Sarah (Kyra Sedgwick) is a New York City columnist who falls in love with -- and quickly gets pregnant by -- Ryan (Rob Morrow), a free-spirited artist who promptly vanishes for eight months. Ryan, of course, has no idea he's going to be a father, and neither do her protective parents (Mary Tyler Read More

Any Given Sunday

Actors: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx

Synopsis: Oliver Stone takes on professional football, a sport whose grace and delicacy are a good match for his filmmaking style. Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino), the head coach of the Miami Sharks, won back-to-back championships four years ago. But new team owner Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz) has little Read More

Knock Off

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon, Paul Sorvino, Carmen Lee

Synopsis: Hong Kong action genre craftsman Tsui Hark directed this martial arts tale, his second collaboration with actor Jean-Claude Van Damme after Double Team (1997). Van Damme stars as Marcus Ray, a Hong Kong fashion designer who specializes in "knock-offs," cheaply produced jeans and sneakers meant to Read More

Why Do Fools Fall In Love

Actors: Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon, Larenz Tate, Paul Mazursky

Synopsis: Gregory Nava directed this biographical drama on the brief but intense life of singer Frankie Lymon who stayed with the popular Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers group only for a year. Lymon was 13 years old when the group erupted from radios and jukeboxes with their 1956 hit, Why Do Fools Fall in Read More

The Big Hit

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Avery Brooks, Bokeem Woodbine, Antonio Sabato, Jr., Lela Rochon

Synopsis: Kirk Wong directed this comedy actioner about mild-mannered, beleaguered hitman Melvin Smiley (Mark Wahlberg), who very much wants to be liked. However, the naive Mel is being taken advantage of by both his girlfriends and associates (who cheat him out of his bonuses). Mel and his "Odd Squad" Read More

Ruby Bridges

Synopsis: A six-year old African-American girl scores very well on early scholastics tests and is chosen by the New Orleans school district to be the first of her race to be integrated into that city's public school system. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Gang Related

Actors: James Belushi, Tupac Shakur, Lela Rochon, Dennis Quaid, James Earl Jones

Synopsis: A pair of corrupt police officers discover the hard way that crime really doesn't pay in this action drama. Divinci (James Belushi) and Rodriguez (Tupac Shakur) are two New York undercover cops with serious money problems: Rodriguez owes a huge gambling debt, while Divinci wants to retire to Read More

Legal Deceit

Actors: Lela Rochon, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Phil Morris

Synopsis: Sydney Banks, an African-American woman with a degree from Harvard Law School, is determined to be an ethical and principled lawyer, but instead finds herself in a firm where murder, blackmail and madness rule the day. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Lela Rochon

Synopsis: In this drama, an interracial Virginia couple petition the Supreme Court against the state's miscegenation laws in order to legalize their marriage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Chamber

Actors: Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Robert Prosky, Lela Rochon, Millie Perkins, Raymond J. Barry

Synopsis: Based on a novel by John Grisham, this drama deals with a man trying to come to terms with his family and their ugly secrets. Adam Hall (Chris O'Donnell) is a successful attorney based in Chicago who travels to Mississippi to look into the case of Sam Cayhall (Gene Hackman). An outspoken racist Read More

The Wayans Bros. [TV Series]

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

Waiting to Exhale

Actors: Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, Gregory Hines

Synopsis: A surprise Hollywood hit, this film is based on the novel of the same name by Terry McMillan and centers on four well-to-do African-American women and their relationships with men and one another. All of them are "holding their breath" until the day they can feel comfortable in a committed Read More

The Meteor Man

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

Boomerang

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

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Will Gets a Job

Synopsis: Worried that he's becoming as soft and spoiled as his cousin Carlton (Alfonso Ribeiro), Will decides to start pulling his own weight in the Banks household. To this end, he gets a job as a waiter (complete with all-encompassing pirate costume!) at a sea-food restaurant. Unfortunately, when Will Read More

Harlem Nights

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy, in addition to starring as Quick, the son of 1930s Harlem gambling-house proprietor Sugar Ray (Richard Pryor), also wrote and directed the film. The plotline details the combined efforts of Quick and Sugar Ray to prevent white gangster Bugsy Calhoune (Michael Lerner) from muscling in Read More

The Wild Pair

Actors: Beau Bridges, Bubba Smith, Lloyd Bridges, Gary Lockwood, Raymond St. Jacques

Synopsis: When uptight FBI agent Joe Jennings (Beau Bridges) is forced to team up with reluctant local officer Benny Avalon (Bubba Smith), the two must learn to overcome their differences and work together to break up a drug smuggling operation. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cosby Show: The Shower

Synopsis: Throwing a bridal shower for her friend Veronica (Lela Rochon), Denise (Lisa Bonet) is shocked to learn that Veronica deliberately got herself pregnant so her parents couldn't object to her marriage plans. Meanwhile, Clair (Phylicia Rashad) endeavors to keep Cliff (Bill Cosby) and Theo Read More

Into the Homeland

Actors: Powers Boothe, C. Thomas Howell

Synopsis: This made-for-cable thriller stars Powers Boothe as a former policeman whose son (C. Thomas Howell) has fallen prey to a band of white supremacists. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Stewardess School

Actors: Brett Cullen, Mary Cadorette, Don Most, Sandahl Bergman, Vicki Frederick

Synopsis: Columbia Pictures spent as estimated $8 million dollars on this laughless sex comedy that crashes and burns before ever leaving the ground. Two bumbling boneheads who are kicked out of flying school decide to remain airborne by becoming stewardesses. Bathroom humor, sight gags, and the Read More

Foxtrap

Actors: Fred Williamson, Christopher Connelly, Arlene Golonka, Donna Owen, Beatrice Palme

Synopsis: Fred Williamson stars in this gritty action film as an L.A. detective named Thomas Fox, hired by a wealthy industrialist (Christopher Connelly) to find his missing niece (Donna Owen). Fox follows the girl all over Europe -- including a stop at the Cannes Film Festival -- and brings her back home Read More

A Bunny's Tale

Actors: Lela Rochon

Synopsis: A Bunny's Tale is a TV-movie adaptation of Gloria Steinem's experiences as a Playboy bunny. Engaged by a magazine to write an investigative article on publisher Hugh Hefner's nightclub chain, Ms. Steinem (Kirstie Alley) poses as a young girl named "Marie" and enters the Bunny training program at Read More