Biography: Ernest R. Dickerson |
Ernest R. Dickerson attended Howard University, where he majored in architecture and photography. In the latter capacity, Dickerson filmed student operations for Howard's medical school. He went on to New York University, where he manned the cameras... more
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Cast: LeVar Burton Bill Duke
Tags: Drama Family Drama Urban Drama
Length: 133min
Miracle's Boys tells the tale of African-American brothers who must survive many daily stresses by trusting, relying on, and loving each other. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Cast: David Arquette
Tags: Crime Crime Thriller Post-Noir (Modern Noir)
Length: 82min
From a script from first-time scribe James Gibson comes this filmed adaptation of ex-gangster Donald Goines' 1974 novel -Never Die Alone. Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson (Juice, Bones), the films stars David Arquette as Paul Pawlowski, a reporter who...
Cast: Spike Lee
Tags: Satire Comedy Drama Period Film
Length: 119min
A black family gets a first-hand look at the trials and tribulations of upward mobility and suburban segregation in this pointed comedy. In 1973, Tom (Danny Glover) is an African-American attorney who is determined to raise himself up by his own...
Tags: Creature Film Horror
Length: min
After previously dabbling in horror with 2001's Bones and an entry in the Showtime anthology series Masters of Horror, director Ernest R. Dickerson returns to the genre with this vampire flick. Based on a book by a distant descendant of Bram Stoker,...
Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie (2002)
Cast: Alex Rocco
Tags: Comedy Drama Crime Drama
Length: 96min
Based on a real-life 1994 scandal involving college basketball point-shaving, Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie stars David Krumholtz as the title character. Though a mere freshman on the campus of Arizona State University, Benny Silman...
Cast: Ernest R. Dickerson
Tags: Docudrama Political Drama Drama
Length: 120min
This made-for-cable TV drama is based on the book of the same name by ~Wall Street Journal reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson. Delroy Lindo stars as Justice Clarence Thomas, whose proposed appointment to the Supreme Court by President Bush in...
Cast: Pam Grier
Tags: Horror Haunted House Film
Length: 96min
Cinematographer turned director Ernest Dickerson returns to the horror genre with this African-American, urban twist on haunted house stories. Rap star Snoop Doggy Dogg makes his debut as a leading man in the title role of Jimmy Bones, stylish...
Cast: John Heard John Turturro Kevin Anderson
Tags: Docudrama Showbiz Drama Drama
Length: 90min
Just as Jon Voight's on-target portrayal of controversial sportscaster Howard Cosell) in the 2002 biopic Ali was making the theatrical rounds, actor John Turturro offered his own spin on "Humble Howard" in the made-for-cable movie Monday Night Mayhem....
Cast: Josh Charles Mykelti Williamson
Tags: Drama Coming-of-Age Urban Drama
Length: 95min
Our America is the story of LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman two inner-city Chicago teenagers who eloquently distilled their lives on the Mean Streets into an award-winning Public Radio documentary (and later, a book) titled Our America: Life and Death...
Cast: Courtney Vance
Tags: Courtroom Drama Drama
Length: 122min
Lawyer John Williams (Courtney B. Vance) looks back in flashback to 1957 when he began as a lawyer while living in the Bronx with his older brother, Charles (Charles S. Dutton). Married to Carol (Lonette McKee), Charles is the NYPD's first...
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