The controversial satire The LA Riot Spectacular plays for mordent laughs the events that consumed L.A. in 1992, after the...
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Rodney King
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2006
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The (mostly) true story of a Hollywood princess turned bounty hunter is told in this witty action-drama from director...
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2005
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Bill Cosby
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2004
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The toll that drugs and crime have taken on an economically-depressed African-American neighborhood in Baltimore paints the...
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Gary McCullogh
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2000
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1999
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In this sci-fi thriller which opens in the year 2025, researchers have been able to create a new race of people with...
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1996
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To afford a second honeymoon at a remote mountain cabin, Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) and Whitley (Jasmine Guy) agree to share...
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1993
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At the request of the girl's father, Whitley (Jasmine Guy) allows her student Dashawn Curtis (Jonell Green) to stay at her...
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1993
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Bill Duke directs this quirky film adaptation of Chester Himes' crime novel -- a heavily plotted gangster tale with a sweet...
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1991
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In this slapstick comedy, a group of faithful ski patrol members set out to save Snowy Peaks ski resort from the evil plans...
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Iceman
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1990
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There were those in 1989 who bellyached that Disney Television's Polly was a far from faithful adaptation of Eleanor Porter's...
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1989
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The 1987 portmanteau comedy feature Amazon Women on the Moon lampoons several film genres in general and the 1954 sci-fi...
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1987
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Reggie/Regina
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1987
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Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's second American film may well be the only existential adventure flick in Hollywood...
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1985
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Spunky nine-year-old Penelope "Punky" Brewster (Soleil Moon Frye) and her foster father, middle-aged bachelor photographer...
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1985
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Child actress Soleil Moon Frye played the title role in the lightweight half-hour sitcom Punky Brewster. After being...
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1984
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This made-for-TV comedy postulates that, someday, members of carpools will be selected by computer. The four so anointed...
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Otis Vaughan
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1983
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A college professor named Clifford Skridlow (Dan Aykroyd goes undercover as a Chicago pimp disguised by a bushy wig in this...
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Diavolo Washington
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1983
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Nauls
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1982
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A handful of part time soldiers unwittingly turn a field exercise into a miniature war in this offbeat action drama from...
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Cribbs
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1981
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1980
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For the first (and thus far the only) time in his career, Chevy Chase plays a genuinely sympathetic character in Neil Simon's...
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1980
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Ever wonder what happens to your car when you give it to a parking lot attendant? Find out in this zany slapstick comedy set...
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1980
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Two unwed youths head for New York tenements with their child after they are driven from their homes. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1980
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In this second episode of a two-part story, George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) steps up his campaign to purchase a warehouse...
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1978
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Not realizing that his new assistant, Val (Tanya Boyd), is his boss' daughter, J.J. (Jimmie Walker) puts on the usual amorous...
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1978
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Impressed by the trumpet-playing skills of his black friend Josh Foster (now played by James Bond III, replacing Todd...
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1978
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Quincy (Jack Klugman) receives an urgent call from his friend Rosey Grier (playing himself), who is currently running Giant...
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1978
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Twenty-year-old LeVar Burton followed up his spectacular television debut in Roots with the made-for-TV film Billy: Portrait...
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1977
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1977
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