Reuben Cannon Filmography

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Sanaa Lathan, Tyler Perry, Rockmond Dunbar

Synopsis: Alfre Woodard and Kathy Bates star in writer/director Tyler Perry's family drama about an upper-crust family and their working-class counterparts, who discover that scandal knows no social boundaries. Charlotte Cartwright (Bates) and Alice Pratt (Woodard) may be from different sides of the tracks Read More

Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns

Crew: Producer

Actors: Angela Bassett, Rick Fox, Margaret Avery, Frankie R. Faison, Jennifer Lewis

Synopsis: Prolific playwright Tyler Perry adapts his popular stage play of the same name in this family-oriented comedy concerning a desperate mother who connects with the family she never knew. Brenda is a single Chicago mother of three who has been struggling for years to keep her kids off of the streets. Read More

Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tyler Perry, Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, Malik Yoba, Richard T. Jones

Synopsis: A couple (Tyler Perry and Janet Jackson) that goes on a therapeutic annual winter vacation designed to help couples work through their marital problems in a group setting finds the usual routine thrown into chaos when one of the wives arrives with a sexy young temptress in tow. Now, as the Read More

Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba, Louis Gossett, Jr., Tasha Smith, Tracee Ellis Ross

Synopsis: Diary of a Mad Black Woman mastermind Tyler Perry turns the familiar Cinderella tale on its head with this story concerning a successful female attorney who falls in love with a financially strapped mechanic. Monty (Idris Elba) is struggling mechanic and single father of three from a poor Read More

Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Boris Kodjoe, Henry Simmons

Synopsis: Actor and playwright Tyler Perry returns as Madea, a brash but loving African-American grandmother with her own way of doing things in this screen adaptation of his popular stage comedy drama. Madea has her work cut out for her when she finds herself dealing with a handful of family crises the Read More

Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Crew: Casting, Producer

Actors: Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Shemar Moore, Tamara Taylor, Lisa Marcos

Synopsis: A woman has to learn how to love and trust men all over again in this comedy drama. Helen McCarter (Kimberly Elise) would seem to have it all -- she's been married for 18 years to Charles (Steve Harris), and over the course of their time together, he's become one of Atlanta's most successful Read More

The Boondocks [Animated TV Series]

Crew: Casting

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

Woman Thou Art Loosed

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Debbi Morgan, Michael Boatman, Clifton Powell

Synopsis: One woman's odyssey through a hellish life of sexual abuse, drug addiction, and crime is resolved in faith in this tough but inspiring drama based on a true story documented by evangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes. Michelle Jordan (Kimberly Elise) was raised by a single mother, Cassie (Loretta Devine) Read More

Johnson Family Vacation

Crew: Casting

Actors: Cedric the Entertainer, Vanessa Williams, Solange Knowles, Bow Wow, Gabby Soleil

Synopsis: Comedian Cedric the Entertainer serves as both producer and star of this comedy about a family who discovers just how much can go wrong en route to a family get-together. When Nate Johnson (Cedric the Entertainer) is invited to a big family reunion in Missouri, he sees it as an opportunity to Read More

Love Don't Cost a Thing

Crew: Casting, Producer

Actors: Nick Cannon, Christina Milian, Kenan Thompson, Kal Penn, Steve Harvey

Synopsis: The sophomore outing for writer/director/actress Troy Beyer, Love Don't Cost a Thing is a romantic teen comedy based on the screenplay for the 1987 Partick Dempsey film Can't Buy Me Love. Nick Cannon stars as Alvin, a brilliant but awkward teenager -- and budding engineer -- who seizes a golden Read More

Deliver Us From Eva

Crew: Casting

Actors: LL Cool J, Gabrielle Union, Duane Martin, Essence Atkins, Robinne Lee

Synopsis: Three men discover that meddling in their sister-in-law's love life only makes their own lives more complicated in this romantic comedy. Eva Dandridge (Gabrielle Union) developed a sense of responsibility early on in life, when after the death of her parents she was left to care for her three Read More

Undisputed

Crew: Casting

Actors: Ving Rhames, Wesley Snipes, Peter Falk, Michael Rooker, Jon Seda

Synopsis: Director and screenwriter Walter Hill returns to one of his favorite themes -- desperate and violent men using force to escape from an unforgiving environment -- in this action drama set behind bars. Monroe Hutchen (Wesley Snipes) was once a promising heavyweight contender until he was convicted Read More

The Brothers

Crew: Casting

Actors: Morris Chestnut, D.L. Hughley, Bill Bellamy, Shemar Moore, Gabrielle Union

Synopsis: Four successful men find themselves easing into long-term relationships, but they're not all that comfortable about it, in this intelligent comedy-drama. Terry (Shemar Moore), Jackson (Morris Chestnut), Brian (Bill Bellamy), and Derrick (D.L. Hughley) are four close friends who get together once a Read More

Dancing in September

Crew: Producer

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

Under Suspicion

Crew: Casting

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Thomas Jane, Monica Bellucci

Synopsis: When a powerful man is accused of murder, who tells the truth -- the man, or his estranged wife? Henry Hearst (Gene Hackman), an American attorney living in Puerto Rico, is called in to speak with police detective Victor Benezet (Morgan Freeman). A few days earlier, Hearst reported finding the Read More

Mutiny

Crew: Casting

Actors: Michael Jai White, David Ramsey, Duane Martin, Adrian Pasdar, Matthew Glave

Synopsis: This made-for-television docudrama that aired on March 28, 1999 on NBC, relates the story of an actual event that occurred during World War II, but is centered around the lives of fictional characters. On July 17, 1944 at a U.S. naval base near San Francisco, a ship exploded causing the deaths of Read More

Y2K

Crew: Casting

Actors: Ken Olin, Kate Vernon, Joe Morton, Jane McGregor, Michal Suchanek

Synopsis: "What if they're right?" screamed the ad copy for the TV movie Y2K, referring to the millions of otherwise rational, level-headed people who lived in mortal terror that virtually every computer in the world would malfunction on December 31, 1999, because of an imbedded inability to "read" Read More

Down in the Delta

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr., Mary Alice, Esther Rolle, Loretta Devine

Synopsis: Poet Maya Angelou made her feature directorial debut with this African-American family drama, shown theatrically but originally produced for the Showtime cable network. Unemployed single mother Loretta (Alfre Woodward) lives with her mother, Rosa Lynn (Mary Alice), in a Chicago apartment. Drugs Read More

Why Do Fools Fall In Love

Crew: Casting

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

Vampires

Crew: Casting

Actors: James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Tim Guinee, Maximilian Schell

Synopsis: John Carpenter directed this horror-western, adapted from the novel Vampire$ by John Steakley, illuminating the pivotal figure of fearless vampire killer Jack Crow (James Woods), who lost his parents to the creatures. In a remote New Mexico location, Crow and his team, protected with chain-mail Read More

Buffalo Soldiers

Crew: Casting

Actors: Danny Glover, Bob Gunton, Carl Lumbly, Tom Bower, Gabriel Casseus

Synopsis: Frank Military and Susan Rhinehart scripted this western, a look back at the post-Civil War Black cavalry troops known as the Buffalo Soldiers, the fierce fighting unit previously covered in a PBS four-parter (1970) and an NBC pilot (1979). In the New Mexico Territory, ex-slave Sgt. Wyatt (Danny Glover Read More

Riot in the Streets

Crew: Casting

Actors: Luke Perry, Cicely Tyson, Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: This off-beat urban anthology offers four different views of the mayhem and destruction that came from the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The first vignette "Gold Mountain," directed by Galen Yuen, centers on a struggle between a traditional-minded Chinese storekeeper and his increasingly uncontrollable Read More

Soul of the Game

Crew: Casting

Actors: Delroy Lindo, Mykelti Williamson, Blair Underwood, Edward Herrmann, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: This original HBO production documents, in dramatic form, the rivalry between Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson to see who would be the first African-American to play Major League Baseball. Paige (played by Delroy Lindo) and Gibson (Mykelti Williamson) are more aggressive about Read More

Get on the Bus

Crew: Casting, Producer

Actors: Richard Belzer, Ossie Davis, De'Aundre Bonds, Charles S. Dutton, 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

Village of the Damned

Crew: Casting

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Paré, Meredith Salenger

Synopsis: This film is a remake of the classic 1960 science-fiction thriller, Village of the Damned, which was based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. Veteran horror director John Carpenter is at the helm this time, with Christopher Reeve replacing George Sanders in the starring role. Aliens Read More

Desperado

Crew: Casting

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida, Cheech Marin, Steve Buscemi, Quentin Tarantino

Synopsis: Director Robert Rodriguez picks up where his successful independent debut El Mariachi left off with this slam-bang South of the Border action saga. Bucho (Joaquim DeAlmeida) is a wealthy but casually bloodthirsty drug kingpin who rules a seedy Mexican border town. Bucho and his men make the 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

Geronimo: An American Legend

Crew: Casting

Actors: Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi, Matt Damon

Synopsis: Walter Hill directs John Milius's script (co-written by Larry Gross) depicting a revisionist perspective on the "Geronimo Campaign" and how Geronimo, with 34 men, managed to elude 5000 U.S. cavalry men between 1885 and 1886 before his surrender at the Canyon of the Skeletons in September 1886. The Read More

Made in America

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Will Smith, Nia Long, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: Richard Benjamin directed this farce that plays like "Guess Who's Coming for Insemination?" Whoopi Goldberg stars as Sarah Matthews, who runs an African-American oriented bookstore in Oakland. She is raising her daughter, a beautiful high school student named Zora (Nia Long), on her own after her Read More

Trespass

Actors: Bill Paxton, Ice-T, Bill Sadler, Ice Cube, Art Evans

Synopsis: Maverick director Walter Hill, who had a big hit with 48 Hrs., indulges his customary yen for violent and disturbing scenes in this overlooked action film, which was also released under the name Looters. Set in the economically-depressed town of East St. Louis, IL, the film's release was delayed Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter

Crew: Casting

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason takes the case for a TV reporter falsely accused of killing the station's ego-maniacal anchorman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter

Crew: Casting

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason listens to the pleas of a 13-year-old girl and helps her father who was falsely accused of murdering a gambler. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer

Crew: Casting

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason represents a former student who is accused of murdering a singing star. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Secret Life of Archie's Wife

Crew: Casting

Actors: Ray Wise

Synopsis: LA Law's husband-and-wife costars Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry are top-billed in this TV movie tailored to their talents. Tucker is a minor league crook who can't seem to do anything right. Eikenberry is a bored housewife who is inadvertently kidnapped by Tucker during a bank robbery. Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen

Crew: Casting

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason begins representing an author who is accused of killing her conniving ex-husband at a mystery writers convention. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception

Crew: Casting

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason represents a Marine Officer who is accused of killing a Nazi war criminal. He is the prime suspect because the Nazi had treated his mother terribly at a concentration camp. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Paint It Black

Crew: Casting

Actors: Rick Rossovich, Sally Kirkland, Julie Carmen, Martin Landau, Doug Savant

Synopsis: In this Hitchcockian thriller, a wealthy and naive young sculptor learns that people are not always nice and helpful. His first mistake is to fall for the seductress who runs the gallery that has an exclusive on his work. He then hooks up with an insane art collector who gets jealous of the Read More

The Kill Reflex

Actors: Fred Williamson, Maud Adams

Synopsis: Kill Reflex is a Po' Boy production, produced and directed by that company's founder, Fred Williamson. Williamson also assumes the starring role in this violent throwback to the glory days of Blaxploitation. He plays a Chicago cop whose partner is killed; when he wants answers, he discovers that Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin

Crew: Casting

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason must help a wounded hockey star who has been accused of killing an important sports figure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sister, Sister

Crew: Casting

Synopsis: Maya Angelou may be eminently qualified for her position as America's poet laureate, but her skills as a scriptwriter areat play in Sister Sister. Diahann Carroll plays a Southern schoolteacher who lives in the large house willed to her by her pullman-porter father; here she takes care of younger Read More

The Winans: Live in Concert

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This musical performance features a live concert with Vanessa Bell Armstrong. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

Actors: Dennis Farina, Wings Hauser, Richard Pryor, Debbie Allen, Art Evans, Fay Hauser, Barbara Williams

Synopsis: Popular African-American comedian Jo Jo Dancer is severely burned while free-basing cocaine. Producer/director/writer Richard Pryor insists that the movie is not autobiographical. While hovering between life and death, Dancer flashes back to his childhood, when he grew up in a brothel. 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

A Soldier's Story

Crew: Casting

Actors: David Alan Grier, Wings Hauser, Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Adolph Caesar, Dennis Lipscomb, Patti LaBelle, Art Evans, Denzel Washington

Synopsis: Inspired by the Herman Melville novel Billy Budd, writer Charles Fuller created the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play, which he then adapted into this film drama in 1984, for socially conscious, liberal director Norman Jewison. In the racially-divided 1940s, Fort Neal, Louisiana, is a Read More