Biography: Forest Whitaker |

The hulking, unmistakably burly Forest Whitaker initially got into college on a football scholarship, but upon transferring to the University of Southern California, he majored in music, winning two more scholarships in that field. Still another... more
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Tags: Musical Drama Biopic Drama 
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The story of singer Louis Armstrong is retold by actor/director Forest Whitaker in this Legende Productions iopic. Whitaker portrays the dynamic performer in what will be the first authorized production to be sanctioned from the singer's estate....

Tags: Comedy 
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Cast: Jude Law   
Tags: Sci-Fi Action Science Fiction Paranoid Thriller 
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Writers Eric Garcia and Garrett Lerner team with director Miguel Sapochnik to adapt Garcia's novel about a repo man named Remy whose body has been constructed almost entirely of artificial organs. When Remy (Jude Law) fails to keep up on payments for...

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Cast: Benicio Del Toro Spike Jonze Tom Hanks Catherine Keener Catherine O'Hara Dave Eggers   
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Fantasy Adventure Children's Fantasy 
Length: min
Visionary director Spike Jonze brings Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book to the big screen with the help of hipster icon Dave Eggers, who teamed with Jonze to pen the adapted screenplay. A mixture of real actors, computer animation, and live...

Cast: Kris Kristofferson   
Tags: Ensemble Film Drama 
Length: 108min
Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, and Jessica Biel topline this ensemble drama regarding intersecting lives on Christmas Eve from writer/director Timothy Linh Bui (Green Dragon). Liotta plays an ex-convict who tracks down his estranged daughter (Biel)...

Tags: Sports Drama Drama 
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Tim Story directs this sports drama based on real events, with Forest Whitaker starring as Al Collins, a high-school basketball coach who leads a ragtag team to win the state finals just a year after the Katrina disaster in this Weinstein Co....

Cast: Forest Whitaker Keanu Reeves Cedric the Entertainer   
Tags: Drama Police Detective Film 
Length: 107min
In the wake of the L.A. riots, an LAPD vice detective who always went above and beyond the call of duty to keep the streets safe receives a startling wake-up call that leaves him convinced he can no longer employ the tactics that made him so effective...

Cast: Dennis Quaid   
Tags: Political Thriller Thriller 
Length: 89min
Forest Whitaker, Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, and Matthew Fox star in director Pete Travis' Rashomon-style hriller in which an assassination attempt on the president of the United States is detailed from five unique perspectives. As the president...

Crips and Bloods: Made in America (2008)
Tags: Culture & Society Social Issues 
Length: 101min
Narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker, Dogtown and Z-Boys director Stacy Peralta's unflinching documentary chronicles one of the longest-running civil wars in the history of America though a deeply humanistic lens. The Bloods and...

Tags: Drama Ensemble Film 
Length: 96min
In the aftermath of a gruesome restaurant murder, the survivors of the attack are left to ponder their own mortality and how it relates to their connection to society. Forest Whitaker, Guy Pearce, Kate Beckinsale, and Dakota Fanning headline Little...






























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