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Standing merely five feet tall, Jada Pinkett Smith is known for her high-energy charm, receiving attention for the spunky role she played in her friend Keenan Ivory Wayans' Low Down Dirty Shame in 1994. She was born on September 18, 1971, in... more
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Cast: Damon Wayans Spike Lee
Tags: Comedy Drama Media Satire
Length: 135min
Writer and director Spike Lee casts his satiric gaze on racism in American television and how America's racist past still impacts the present in this biting comedy. Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) is an astute, Harvard-educated African-American writer...
Cast: Eddie Murphy James Coburn Jerry Lewis Rick Baker Tom Shadyac Dave Chappelle
Tags: Romantic Comedy Sci-Fi Comedy Comedy
Length: 95min
Eddie Murphy gives one of Jerry Lewis' best-remembered vehicles a 1990s overhaul in this hit comedy. Sherman Klump (Murphy) is a college professor and respected biochemistry researcher who is kind, considerate, and a genuinely nice guy. Sherman is...
Cast: Keenen Ivory Wayans Charles S. Dutton Joe Roth
Tags: Action Comedy Detective Film Action Comedy
Length: 100min
A black detective becomes embroiled in a web of danger while searching for a fortune in missing drug money in this action-comedy. Writer-director Keenan Ivory Wayans also stars as Los Angeles private eye Arthur Shame, a former cop whose troubled past...
Tags: Crime Action Buddy Film Crime Thriller
Length: 120min
The sophomore film effort from music video director F. Gary Gray, Set It Off is a crime thriller about four women bank robbers from a housing project in L.A. Ever since her parents' death, Stony (Jada Pinkett Smith) has had to act as a parent to her...
Tags: Farce Sex Comedy Comedy Urban Comedy
Length: 84min
Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Madeline, Party Girl) directed this comedy, scripted by David C. Johnson (D.R.O.P. Squad), following the trajectory of a mismatched couple throughout the evening of a blind date in New York (but mostly filmed in Toronto)....
Tags: Gangster Film Crime Urban Drama Drama
Length: 104min
This debut offering from twin brothers Albert and Allen Hughes was one of the most critically-acclaimed urban crime films to appear in the wake of John Singleton's influential Boyz N the Hood. Set in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, the film...
Cast: Robert Zemeckis Jada Pinkett Smith Billy Zane CCH Pounder Walter Hill Richard Donner Ernest R. Dickerson
Tags: Horror
Length: 92min
This first theatrical feature spun off from the television series Tales from the Crypt (which was in turn inspired by the infamous EC horror comics of the 1950s) concerns a mysterious man named Brayker (Bill Sadler), who arrives at a...
Tags: Urban Drama Drama Crime Drama
Length: 119min
This drama, set in a gritty part of Houston's outskirts, pits brother against brother as the two men try to cope with their childhood family tragedy. Jason and Joshua are opposites. Jason, an ambitious young TV salesman, is the straight arrow. Joshua,...
Tags: Comedy Drama Period Film Coming-of-Age
Length: 120min
Charming comedy about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide
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