Leon Filmography

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Actors: Marc John Jefferies, Viola Davis, Joy Bryant, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson

Synopsis: Hip-hop star 50 Cent makes his movie debut in this hard-edged urban drama inspired by the rapper's own life. Marcus (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, aka 50 Cent) grew up in a tough New York neighborhood and was left to fend for himself after the death of his mother when he was a kid. Marcus fell in with Read More

Little Richard

Actors: Leon, Jenifer Lewis, Carl Lumbly, Tamala Jones, Mel Jackson

Synopsis: Robert Townsend directs this biopic on the life of one of the great early rock & roll entertainers -- Little Richard (played by Leon). The film charts Richard's rise from his humble origins in Macon, Georgia, to his chart-topping success to his much-reported return to the Church. ~ Jonathan Crow Read More

Bats

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton, Leon, Carlos Jacott, Marcia Dangerfield

Synopsis: Beware of what goes "bump" (and "squeak" and "flap flap flap") in the night. Dr. Sheila Casper (Dina Meyer) is a respected zoologist dispatched by the government to Gallup, TX, a small community suffering from an unusual number of reported bat attacks. Casper finds this news puzzling, since bats Read More

Friends & Lovers

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Danny Nucci, George Newbern, Claudia Schiffer, Alison Eastwood, Robert Downey, Jr.

Synopsis: The Christmas holidays are fast approaching when Los Angeles native Ian (George Newbern) gets an unexpected invitation from his father (David Rasche) to join him for a vacation in Park City, Utah. The two don't get along especially well, but Ian goes partly in hopes of patching up the Read More

Mean Streak

Actors: Scott Bakula, Leon

Synopsis: Scott Bakula and Leon star in this mystery thriller. An African-American baseball player is having a hot season and threatens to break Joe DiMaggio's batting record. However, one baseball fan isn't so thrilled -- a psychotic racist who has been murdering young black boys and sending their severed Read More

The Temptations, Part 1

Actors: Terron Brooks, Leon, Christian Payton, Charles Malik Whitfield, D.B. Woodside

Synopsis: This two-part NBC miniseries follows the rise of the Temptations, a quintet of black singers who came to rule Motown and the charts with their groundbreaking music. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Side Streets

Actors: Valeria Golino, Shashi Kapoor, Leon, Art Malik, Shabana Azmi

Synopsis: Tony Gerber made his directorial debut with this anthology film, a comedy-drama that opens with a 1950s black-and-white newsreel focusing on the ethnic diversity of New York City. This multicultural mix is dramatized in five interlinked tales set in each of NYC's five boroughs on a hot summer day Read More

The Temptations, Part 2

Actors: Terron Brooks, Leon, Christian Payton, Charles Malik Whitfield, D.B. Woodside

Synopsis: This two-part NBC miniseries follows the rise of the Temptations, a quintet of black singers who came to rule Motown and the charts with their groundbreaking music. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Price of Kissing

Crew: Producer

Actors: Loretta Devine, Nicole Eggert, Leon, Lou Rawls

Synopsis: Four 20-somethings try to unravel the tangled mess of their love lives in this modern romantic drama. Larry (Leon) runs a nightclub, but he would rather be onstage singing than booking the talent. Larry used to be involved with his friend Renee (P. Pauley), an aspiring poet, but lately he's become Read More

Spirit Lost

Actors: Leon, Regina Taylor, Cynda Williams, Juanita Jennings, Tamara Tunie

Synopsis: In this spooky horror movie, a painter and his pregnant wife buy a beautiful island home without realizing that it is haunted by the lovely and terribly lonely ghost of a sea captain's lover. Anxious for a new lover to join her, this sexy she-ghost does all she can to simultaneously seduce the Read More

B.A.P.S.

Actors: Halle Berry, Martin Landau, Ian Richardson, Natalie Desselle, Troy Beyer

Synopsis: In this broad fish-out-of-water comedy, Nisi (Halle Berry) and Mickey (Natalie Desselle) are African-American women with two ambitions -- marry rich men who will give them lots of money, and open the world's first combination hair salon and soul food restaurant. However, eligible bachelors and Read More

Runaway Car

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Nina Siemaszko

Synopsis: If it worked for Speed, it'll work for Runaway Car--or at least, that seems to have been the philosophy behind the making of this highly derivative made-for-TV actioner. Having suffered through an unusually rotten day on the job, timid nurse Jenny Todd (Nina Siesmaszko) heads to the garage where Read More

Oz: Season 01

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: Seen mostly through the eyes of wheelchair-bound prisoner Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau Jr.), who serves as narrator and "tour guide," the first season of Oz begins with the establishment of a "prison within a prison" on Cell Block 5 of Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary -- aka "Oz." Under the Read More

Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored

Synopsis: Actor Tim Reid (WKRP in Cincinnati) made his directorial debut with this filmed adaptation of Clifton L. Taulbert's autobiography. Set in an African-American community in the segregated South, Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored follows a young Taulbert through three decades, beginning with Read More

Pure Danger

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Teri Ann Linn, Leon, Michael Russo, Marcus Chong

Synopsis: The lives of two restaurant employees change dramatically when a mortally wounded gangster staggers in. He carries a bag of diamonds. Unable to resist temptation, the workers grab the gems and flee. Two different mobs follow in hot pursuit. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

Above the Rim

Actors: Duane Martin, Leon, Tupac Shakur, David Bailey, Tonya Pinkins

Synopsis: A young aspiring professional basketball player must make some tough decisions in this sports melodrama. Kyle Lee is a talented basketball player in high school. While he waits to find out if he will receive a scholarship to Georgetown he finds himself in a difficult dilemma over a playground Read More

Cool Runnings

Actors: Leon, Doug E. Doug, Malik Yoba, Rawle D. Lewis, John Candy

Synopsis: Cool Runnings fictionalizes the true story of a bobsledding team from Jamaica making it to the Olympics. The tale begins when Derice Bannock (Leon), realizing that due to an accident his chances of qualifying for Jamaica's 1988 Olympic track team are dashed, scrounges around looking for another Read More

Bad Attitude

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1991 TV movie Bad Attitudes, this film is a 1993 cop drama from director Bill Cummings. Leon stars as a narcotics officer with a tragically itchy trigger finger. When he accidentally shoots an innocent bystander, his behind is in a sling. Hoping to redeem himself, Leon Read More

Cliffhanger

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner, Rex Linn, Paul Winfield, Ralph Waite

Synopsis: In Cliffhanger, Sylvester Stallone plays Gabe Walker, a member of a mountain-climbing rescue team. Gabe is haunted by an incident from his past when he couldn't save the girlfriend of his best friend, Hal Tucker (Michael Rooker), from falling to her death. As the story begins, Gabe has left 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

Flying Blind

Hunter: Investment in Death

Synopsis: A brilliant black UCLA student who has managed to rise above his street-gang origins is murdered in a drive-by shooting--not in his old 'hood, but in fashionable Westwood. At first, it appears that the killing was gang-related, perhaps an act of vengeance. But as Hunter (Fred Dryer) delves into 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

The Women of Brewster Place

Actors: Oprah Winfrey, Jackée, Cicely Tyson, Robin Givens

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place was produced by and stars Oprah Winfrey. The film concerns a variety of women who live in the housing project located on Brewster Place, and tells about their lives as they struggle in the face of racism, poverty, and troublesome Read More

The Lawless Land

Actors: Nick Corri, Leon, Xander R. Berkeley, Amanda Peterson, Patricio Bunster

Synopsis: In the post-apocalyptic setting of this film, industrialists rule their communities in the same way they now rule their corporations. Falco (Nick Corri) has earned the wrath of a powerful industrialist (Walter Kliche) by eloping with his daughter. In Mad Max fashion, they are pursued by the Read More