Reggie Rock Bythewood Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter

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Notorious

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jamal Woolard, Angela Bassett, Derek Luke, Anthony Mackie

Synopsis: Fox Searchlight presents the tragic life story of rap star Notorious B.I.G. from director George Tillman Jr. (Soul Food) and executive producer Sean "Diddy" Combs. The script is provided by Cheo Hodari Coker and Biker Boyz writer/director Reggie Rock Blythewood. Jamal Woolard portrays the slain Read More

1/16/09
Cradle 2 the Grave

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jet Li, DMX, Mark Dacascos, Kelly Hu, Anthony Anderson, Tom Arnold

Synopsis: A thief and a lawman join forces to hunt down a common enemy in this action thriller. Tony Fait (DMX) is a master thief who, along with his crew (Gabrielle Union, Anthony Anderson, and Drag-On), pulls off a major score when they steal a cache of highly valuable black diamonds. However, the Read More

2/28/03
Biker Boyz

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

1/31/03
Dancing in September

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: James Avery, Nicole Ari Parker, Michael Cavanaugh, Marcia Cross, Jenifer Lewis, Vicellous Shannon, Jay Underwood, Isaiah Washington, Malinda Williams

Synopsis: Reggie Rock Bythewood makes his directorial debut with this sharp comedy-drama about love, compromise, and TV. The film opens with the parallel childhoods of Tomasina "Tommy" Crawford (Nicole Ari Parker) and George Washington (Isaiah Washington). Both were utterly shaped by television -- watching Roots Read More

2000
Get on the Bus

Crew: Screenwriter

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

1996
A Different World: College Kid

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: To cut down on costs, Lena (Jada Pinkett, Gina (Ajai Sanders), Charmaine (Karen Malina White), Dorian (Bumper Robinson) and Terrell (Patrick Y. Malone) all move into the same apartment. Almost immediately, they clash with their landlord Langston Paige (Billy Dee Williams), who turns out to be a Read More

1993
A Different World: Cabin in the Sky

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: To afford a second honeymoon at a remote mountain cabin, Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) and Whitley (Jasmine Guy) agree to share the place with Mr. and Mrs. Gaines (Lou Myers, Bebe Drake-Massey). This romantic getaway proves to be anything but thanks to a rampaging skunk and the less-than-stellar Read More

1993
A Different World: Love Taps

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Gina's boyfriend Dion (Edafe Blackmon), better known as rap artist "I'm Down", hires Ron (Darryl M. Bell) to promote his upcoming concert. At the same time, Freddie (Cree Summer) becomes painfully aware that Dion has been physically abusing Gina (Ajai Sanders). Ultimately, the entire campus finds Read More

1992
A Different World: Somebody Say Ho!

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: New student Charmaine (Karen Malina White) is so overbearing in Dwayne's statistics class that someone slaps a sign on her back reading "Digit Ho." Convinced that punkish Terrell Walker (Patrick Y. Malone) is the guilty party, Charmaine files a formal complaint against him. Taking on the task of Read More

1992
A Different World: Original Teacher

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Signing on with Freddie's new mentorship program for the teenagers at Juvenile Hall, Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison)i tries to mediate between youthful parolees Billy (Chris Kelly) and Michael (Chris Smith, whose friendship has been torn asunder by gang-related violence. Dwayne's efforts to patch up the Read More

1992
Vampire's Kiss

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Ashley, Kasi Lemmons

Synopsis: Vampire's Kiss follows the story of yuppie literary agent Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage) as he descends into madness and vampirism. Loew believes he has been bitten by a vampire (Jennifer Beals) and is slowly becoming one himself, despite the contrary opinion of his therapist (Elizabeth Ashley). He Read More

6/2/89
The Beat

Actors: John Savage, David Jacobson, William McNamara, Kara Glover, Jeffrey Horowitz

Synopsis: This drama is based on a play by Mones and is set within a grim New York neighborhood where a new kid comes to the neighborhood. Unlike the street-wise and life-toughened gang members around him, the youth is a sensitive poet who teaches the kids about the meaning and beauty of life. ~ Sandra Read More

9/16/88
The Exterminator 2

Actors: Robert Ginty, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Geffner, Frankie R. Faison, Scott Randolph

Synopsis: This violent follow-up to the sadistic actioner The Exterminator (1980) again features Johnny Eastland (Robert Ginty), a Vietnam vet who is triggered into vengeful killing when his dancer girlfriend (Deborah Geffner) is first badly beaten and permanently crippled and later murdered by a gang of Read More

1984
The Brother from Another Planet

Actors: Joe Morton, Darryl Edwards, Steve James, Leonard Jackson, Bill Cobbs

Synopsis: Filmmaker John Sayles' first bonafide box-office success, Brother from Another Planet centers on a black escaped slave from a faraway planet (Joe Morton) who finds himself on the mean streets Harlem. Though the locals are put off by the slave's inability to speak, they are won over by his Read More

1984
Fight for Your Life

Actors: Robert Judd, Catherine Peppers, Lela Small, Yvonne Ross, Reggie Rock Bythewood

Synopsis: This outrageous sleazefest released by exploitation maven William Mishkin may be the least politically correct film ever seen in American theaters. Thug William Sanderson (of TV's Newhart) and two of his flunkies shoot a number of people and go on the lam to upstate New York. They hide out at the Read More

1977