Vondie Curtis-Hall Filmography

The Big Biazarro

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierce Brosnan

Synopsis: Former James Bond Pierce Brosnan stars as a legendary card player who mentors a talented but stubborn protégé in director Vondie Curtis-Hall's adaptation of the Leonard Wise novel. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Crenshaw Nights

Actors: Judd Nelson, Vondie Curtis-Hall

Honeydripper

Actors: Danny Glover, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Keb' Mo', Yaya DaCosta, Charles S. Dutton, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Kel Mitchell

Synopsis: Tyrone (Danny Glover) is the proprietor of the Honeydripper juke joint. When business at the once-popular club begins to trail off and Tyrone hires unpredictable electric guitarist Sonny (Gary Clark, Jr.) against his better judgment, Tyrone's last-ditch bid to draw in crowds during harvest time Read More

Talk to Me

Actors: Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cedric the Entertainer, Taraji P. Henson, Mike Epps

Synopsis: Don Cheadle stars as outspoken ex-convict and iconic radio personality Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene in a powerful biopic detailing the life and career of a media figure whose voice instilled the black community with hope during the turbulent 1960s. After talking his way onto the Washington, D.C. Read More

Waist Deep

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, Larenz Tate, Shawn Parr

Synopsis: To save his son from ruthless gangsters, a streetwise ex-con finds himself coerced into performing a series of crimes in this gritty thriller. Waist Deep features Tyrese Gibson as O2, a young father and recent parolee whose life on the outside is upended when his young son Junior is taken hostage Read More

The Shield: Insurgents

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Antwon (Anthony Anderson) now has a hold on Shane (Walton Goggins) and Army (Michael Pena), and uses it to get them to bust one of his competitors, and give Antwon half his stash to replace the heroin he's lost. Monica (Glenn Close) gets injunctions against the One-Niners, meaning the gang members Read More

Deceit

Synopsis: The life of wealthy Ellen McCarthy (Marlo Thomas) is thrown into disarray when her husband Grove (William Devane) disappears at sea during a voyage on the family yacht. Evidence indicates that Grove has drowned, and the police have reason to suspect that Ellen was responsible. As the investigation Read More

Redemption

Crew: Director

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, Lee Thompson Young, Brenden Jefferson, Brenda Bazinet

Synopsis: Jamie Foxx once again brilliantly demonstrates his acting chops as Stan "Tookie" Williams, the South Central Los Angeles native who, at the age of 17, co-founded the infamous Crips street gang. If one is to believe the script of this made-for-cable film, Williams hadn't intended the Crips to Read More

Fastlane [TV Series]

Actors: Peter Facinelli, Bill Bellamy, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Jennifer Sky, Craig Sheffer

Synopsis: Clearly inspired by such wall-to-wall action flicks as The Fast and the Furious and XXX, the endearingly mindless TV series Fastlane chronicled the adventures of two tough, hard-driving undercover L.A. cops. Answerable only to their leather-clad superior Billie Chambers (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) Read More

ER: It's All in Your Head

Crew: Director

Synopsis: With this episode, recurring actor Sharif Atkins becomes a regular in the role of med student Michael Gallant, while former regular Eriq La Salle makes a brief encore appearance as Peter Benton. Greene (Anthony Edwards) tries to keep the return of his brain tumor -- and his subsequent treatment Read More

Firefly: Our Mrs. Reynolds

Crew: Director

Actors: Benito Martinez, Bob Fimiani

Synopsis: After Mal (Nathan Fillion) and the crew help a backwater community fend off a vicious band of robbers, Mal takes off his dress and bonnet (long story) and there's a drunken celebration. The next morning, Serenity has to leave in a hurry to avoid an Alliance patrol boat, and Mal finds an Read More

Glitter

Crew: Director

Actors: Kyle Thrash, Chris Tessaro, Mariah Carey, Max Beesley, Da Brat, Terrence Howard, Tia Texada, Valarie Pettiford, Ann Magnuson, Eric Benet, Padma Lakshmi

Synopsis: The acting debut of pop music diva Mariah Carey loosely traces the singer's real-life trajectory to fame. Carey is Billie, an impoverished girl growing up in a tough New York neighborhood abandoned by her drug-addicted mother and dreaming of stardom. Billie gets her big break when her group's demo Read More

ER: Start All Over Again

Crew: Director

Synopsis: No sooner has Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) returned to County General than she clashes with Weaver (Laura Innes) over the treatment of a pregnant teenager in danger of being deported. Elsewhere, Weaver nervously prepares to contact her long-lost birth mother. Elizabeth (Alex Kingston) is Read More

ER: Never Say Never

Synopsis: After a five-year absence, Sherry Stringfield returns to ER in the role of Dr. Susan Lewis -- the same week that series regular Erik Palladino makes his farewell appearance as Dr. Dave Malucci. In Chicago to interview for a job at another hospital, Lewis drops into County General to see her former Read More

ER: The Longer You Stay

Synopsis: Originally scheduled for September 27, 2001, this ER episode was moved back to October 4 due to network coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Weaver (Laura Innes) heads to Doc Magoo's on personal business and fails to answer her pager when Chen (Ming-Na) and Malucchi (Erik Palladino) need her. Read More

ER: Quo Vadis?

Synopsis: Unable to get away from his workload, Benton (Eriq La Salle) may lose Reese (Matthew Watkins) in a court custody battle with Roger (Vondie Curtis-Hall). Carter (Noah Wyle) makes a play for Lewis (Sherry Stringfield), who is not resistant to his charms. While treating a married couple who may Read More

ER: I'll Be Home for Christmas

Synopsis: This episode marks the final regular ER appearances of Eriq La Salle and Michael Michele. After resorting to desperate measures to retain custody of his son, Reese (Matthew Watkins), Peter Benton (La Salle) realizes that he must make a choice between the boy and his overloaded ER schedule. He opts Read More

ER: Partly Cloudy, Chance of Rain

Synopsis: An unusually heavy rainstorm brings a inordinate amount of "traffic" into the ER. Outside the doors of the hospital, Weaver (Laura Innes) and a nervous, inexperienced Gallant (Sharif Atkins) risk electrocution from downed power lines to save a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. Inside, Greene (Anthony Edwards Read More

ER: Supplies and Demands

Synopsis: Two college students who have been brought into the ER test positive for meningitis, whereupon Carter (Noah Wyle) and Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) scramble to prevent an epidemic. Other cases this week include a self-circumcision and a bizarre method of injecting heroin. Elsewhere, Abby (Maura Tierney Read More

ER: If I Should Fall from Grace

Synopsis: Sharif Atkins joins the series as Michael Gallant, a new medical student assigned to Carter (Noah Wyle). While making the rounds with Gallant, Carter learns to his chagrin that his grandmother (Frances Sternhagen) is now a "high-risk" patient who may die at any moment; he also helps Lewis (Sherry Stringfield Read More

Turn It Up

Actors: Pras, Ja Rule, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Tamala Jones, Jason Statham

Synopsis: Prakazrel Michel, better known as Pras from the top-selling R&B group The Fugees, stars in this urban drama based on both his solo album {^Ghetto Superstar} and his novel of the same name. Diamond (Pras) is an up-and-coming musician who is trying to use his creative gifts to work his way out of Read More

Ali: An American Hero

Actors: David Ramsey, Clarence Williams III, Joe Morton, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Martin Ferrero

Synopsis: Shown on the Fox network, this made-for-TV biopic stars David Ramsey as legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, whose story is told largely in flashbacks. Beginning with Ali's childhood, when he was known as Cassius Clay, Ali: An American Hero traces the boxer's career, love life, and eventual devotion to Read More

Sirens

Actors: Dana Delany, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: In this racially charged drama, Sally (Dana Delaney) is a white woman who is making out with Edward (Vondie Curtis-Hall), her black husband in a parked car when a group of policemen surround the car and murder Edward. The officers then plant phony evidence at the scene of the crime that would Read More

Gridlock'd

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tim Roth, Tupac Shakur, Thandie Newton, Charles Fleischer, Howard Hesseman

Synopsis: In this hard-edged drama with a strong undercurrent of dark comedy, Stretch (Tim Roth) and Spoon (Tupac Shakur) are two friends who share both a passion for music and a dependence on heroin. Stretch and Spoon play in a jazz combo with Cookie (Thandie Newton), and after a New Year's Eve gig, they Read More

Eve's Bayou

Actors: Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan

Synopsis: A young girl learns some difficult lessons about truth, love, and fidelity in this critically-acclaimed Southern gothic drama. Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett) is a ten-year-old girl whose father Louis (Samuel L. Jackson) is a successful and well-liked doctor in an African-American community in Read More

Don King: Only In America

Actors: Ving Rhames, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jeremy Piven, Darius McCrary, Keith David

Synopsis: This biographical drama about boxing impresario Don King (Ving Rhames) pulls no punches as it uses flashback sequences to trace King's rise from 1954 Cleveland to the present day. Adapted from Jack Newfield's book on King, this film first aired November 15, 1997 on HBO. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Read More

Heaven's Prisoners

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, Mary Stuart Masterson, Eric Roberts, Teri Hatcher

Synopsis: An ex-cop trying to stay away from trouble finds it literally crashing into his backyard in this crime thriller. Dave Robicheaux (Alec Baldwin) is a former New Orleans police detective who, after kicking an addiction to alcohol and confronting some serious problems with his partners, has left law Read More

Broken Arrow

Actors: John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo, Bob Gunton

Synopsis: Hong Kong director John Woo's second U.S. film (his first was Hard Target) delivers a number of exciting action sequences but is let down by a credibility-straining plot. John Travolta plays Vic Deakins, an Air Force pilot on what is supposed to be a routine night flight mission with his co-pilot Read More

William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are merely a brand of gun and bored youths are easily spurred toward violence. Longtime rivals in religion and business, the Montagues and the Capulets share a page from the Read More

Tuesday Morning Ride

D.R.O.P. Squad

Actors: Eriq La Salle, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Ving Rhames, Kasi Lemmons, Leonard Thomas

Synopsis: In this politically- and racially-themed satire, Bruford Jackson Jr. (Eriq LaSalle) is an African-American advertising man working for a major agency who has been assigned to campaigns selling Mumblin' Jack Malt Liquor and General Otis' Fried Chicken (complete with the Confederate flag on the Read More

Crooklyn

Actors: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris, Carlton Williams

Synopsis: Spike Lee and his siblings Cinque Lee and Joie Lee co-wrote this nostalgic but unglamorized look at a family growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s, inspired by their own childhood. Woody Carmichael (Delroy Lindo) is a jazz musician whose career is in a slump; he once made a good living as a session Read More

Sugar Hill

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright, Theresa Randle, Clarence Williams III, Abe Vigoda

Synopsis: Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright play druglord brothers who have a mob-like crime empire in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. Through flashbacks, we see how Roemello Skuggs (Snipes) and Raynathan Skuggs (Wright) entered the drug culture, with Raynathan helping his mother inject heroin. She died Read More

Clear and Present Danger

Actors: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny

Synopsis: This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Read More

ER: ER Confidential

Synopsis: Cvetic (John Terry) is growing more and more contemptuous of his patients, leading to some bizarre behavior on his part. Carol (Julianna Margulies) is caught on the horns of a dilemma when she is bound by ethics not to reveal details of an accident imparted in confidence by a patient. Ross (George Clooney Read More

112th & Central: Through the Eyes of the Children

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This a locally-made documentary of the explorations of inner-city youths into the area ravaged by a riot in 1992. The youngsters were guided through the filmmaking process by civic-minded filmmakers, and were assisted by a professional cameraman and director. Engaging mostly their own relatives Read More

Falling Down

Actors: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: It's just not William Foster's (Michael Douglas) day. Laid off from his defense job, Foster gets stuck in the middle of the mother of all traffic jams. Desirous of attending his daughter's birthday party at the home of his ex-wife (Barbara Hershey), Foster abandons his car and begins walking Read More

Dead Man's Revenge

Fallen Angels, Vol. 2

Synopsis: The second volume in this film noir style TV-anthology series, this collection of short stories revolves around the dark world of detectives and police officers. Called to look into a murder, an investigator (Gary Oldman) discovers that the victim of the crime is none other than his estranged wife Read More

Passion Fish

Actors: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Nora Dunn

Synopsis: With his trademark emphasis on character development and dialogue, writer/director John Sayles tells the story of May-Alice Culhane (Mary McDonnell), a New York soap opera actress left paralyzed by a car accident. As the film opens, she lies in a hospital bed, confused and scared, watching her own Read More

The Mambo Kings

Actors: Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty, Maruschka Detmers, Desi Arnaz, Jr.

Synopsis: New York art dealer Arne Glimcher took his first crack at film directing with this florid, high-energy romance about two brothers who flee Cuba in the early 1950s to make it as musicians in the United States. Cynthia Cidre wrote the literate screenplay adapted from Oscar Hijuelos's Pulitzer Read More

What She Doesn't Know

Actors: Valerie Bertinelli, George Dzundza, Peter Dobson, David Marshall Grant, Randle Mell

Synopsis: When a district attorney starts an investigation into corruption that leads her back to her own family--rife with police officers--she finds some decisions hard to make. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story

Actors: Guy Killum

Synopsis: Adapted from Robert Sam Anson's fact-based book Best Intentions, Murder without Motive stars Curtis McClarin as Harlem teenager Edmund Perry. A brilliant student, Perry is transferred from the inner city to an exclusive prep school principally attended by whites. Ten days after graduating with Read More

One Good Cop

Actors: Michael Keaton, Rene Russo, Anthony LaPaglia, Kevin Conway, Rachel Ticotin

Synopsis: An honest man struggles to do the right thing, even if it means breaking the law, in this drama. Artie Lewis (Michael Keaton) is a scrupulously ethical cop who believes in his work, loves his wife Rita (Rene Russo), and stands by his partner Stevie Diroma (Anthony LaPaglia). Stevie is a single Read More

... And Then She Was Gone

Actors: Robert Urich

Synopsis: Robert Urich stars as a self-involved computer executive who becomes inadvertently involved in a crime. He witnesses the kidnapping of a 3 year old girl, an event that shakes him out of his aloofness and insensitivity. Feeling partially responsible, Urich determines to aid in the rescue of the Read More

Die Hard 2

Actors: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Bill Sadler, William Atherton, Franco Nero, Dennis Franz, John Amos

Synopsis: "Another basement, another elevator...how can the same thing happen to the same guy twice?" asks John McClane (Bruce Willis), in what is doubtless the key question of this film. A year after foiling the terrorist takeover of a high-rise office building in the first movie, McClane is waiting to Read More

Heat Wave

Actors: Blair Underwood, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Margaret Avery

Synopsis: Set during the Watts riots of the mid-'60s, the made-for-cable Heat Wave follows the story of Los Angeles Times reporter Robert Richardson (Blair Underwood), who was the only journalist on staff able to cover the story, since White reporters were unable to gain access to the area and the rioters. Read More

Mystery Train

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Youki Kudoh, Nicoletta Braschi, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Elizabeth Bracco, Cinqué Lee, Rufus Thomas, Joe Strummer

Synopsis: Written and directed by the ever-unpredictable Jim Jarmusch, Mystery Train is comprised of three short anecdotes involving foreign tourists in Tennessee. Each story is set in a fleabag Memphis hotel which has been redressed as a "tribute" to Elvis Presley. Story #1 involves two Japanese tourists Read More

Black Rain

Actors: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Shigeru Koyama, Yusaku Matsuda

Synopsis: Under scrutiny by his superiors for allegedly dipping into confiscated drug money, New York vice cop Michael Douglas can expect no sympathy from his ex-wife, who is gouging him for alimony. Douglas gets a chance to redeem himself when he is assigned to escort Japanese mob boss Yusaku Matsuda back Read More

Coming to America

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, John Amos, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley

Synopsis: Coming to America casts comedian Eddie Murphy as pampered African prince Akeem, who rebels against an arranged marriage and heads to America to find a new bride. Murphy's regal father (James Earl Jones) agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Read More

Shakedown

Actors: Peter Weller, Sam Elliott, Patricia Charbonneau, Blanche Baker, Antonio Fargas

Synopsis: In this complicated crime drama, Roland Dalton (Peter Weller) is an attorney who must defend a drug dealer who claims he killed in self defense. His worthy opponent is his former flame Susan Cantrell (Patricia Charbonneau), now an effective career-minded prosecuting attorney. Richie Marks (Sam Elliott Read More