Reginald Hudlin Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: The creator of the hip-hop teen comedy (House Party) and the producer of the first African-American animated film (Bebe's Kids), writer/director Reginald Hudlin worked his way to the forefront of African-American entertainment in the early 2000s. An East St. Louis native whose childhood home was...Read More

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The Robin Harris Story: We Don't Die, We Multiply

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Bernie Mac, Robert Townsend, Cedric the Entertainer, D.L. Hughley, Robin Harris

Synopsis: Robin Harris was one of the best-respected African-American comedians of his day; after making his way up the ladder the hard way by playing club gigs around the country while working day jobs, he gained his first major break when he became the master of ceremonies at the Comedy Act venue in Los Read More

8/19/05
The Boondocks [Animated TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The weekly, half-hour animated series The Boondocks was based on the controversial, cutting-edge comic strip by African American artist Aaron McGruder. The heroes of the piece were the Freeman brothers, 10-year-old wannabe political activist Huey and 8-year-old aspiring "gangsta" and rapper Riley. Read More

2005
Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates the Pilot

Crew: Director

2005
Serving Sara

Crew: Director

Actors: Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Bruce Campbell, Amy Adams, Vincent Pastore

Synopsis: A process server makes an unusual alliance with a beautiful but devious woman in this comedy. Joe Tyler (Matthew Perry) is a former attorney whose career went bust when he picked up some clients who turned out to be associated with the Mafia. These days, Joe makes his living as a process server Read More

8/23/02
The Ladies Man

Crew: Director

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

10/13/00
Ride

Crew: Producer

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

1998
The Great White Hype

Crew: Director

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Damon Wayans, Peter Berg, Jon Lovitz, Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: Boxing is more than just a sport -- it's also a business and a con game in this satirical comedy. Rev. Fred Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson) is a shrewd boxing promoter and manager whose meal ticket is heavyweight champion James "The Grim Reaper" Roper (Damon Wayans), a fighter whose skill and Read More

1996
Joe's Apartment

Actors: Jerry O'Connell, Megan Ward, Jim Sterling, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Jim Turner

Synopsis: This film is based on an innovative short film made for MTV about a guy living in a horrible downtown apartment filled with scores of mischievous, smart-alecky roaches. The story chronicles the adventures of Joe (Jerry O'Connell), a hapless rube from the rural Midwest who journeys to the wilds of Read More

1996
Bebe's Kids

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

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

7/31/92
Boomerang

Crew: Director

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

7/1/92
House Party

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

3/9/90
She's Gotta Have It

Actors: Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell, Spike Lee, Raye Dowell

Synopsis: Spike Lee's breakthrough independent feature, shot in fifteen days on a budget of $175,000, ushered in (along with Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise) the American independent film movement of the 1980s. It was also a groundbreaking film for African-American filmmakers and a welcome change in Read More

8/8/86