Biography: Kevin Hooks |
The son of African American actor Robert Hooks, Kevin Hooks was 14 years old when he received a "Best Newcomer" Golden Globe nomination for his performance in Sounder (1972). Three years later, he played the title role in Aaron Loves Angela (1974),... more
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Tags: Period Film Drama Family Family Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 87min
Based on a novel by William H. Armstrong, the made-for-TV Sounder was a remake of director Gordon Parks' 1972 theatrical feature of the same name. This is the story of 11-year-old black youngster David Daniel Lee Robertson III, known throughout the...
Cast: Laurence Fishburne Stephen Baldwin Will Patton Salma Hayek
Tags: Odd Couple Film Comedy Action Buddy Film Chase Movie Action Thriller
Length: 98min
Though serving a prison sentence for using his computer to embezzle from an international corporation, Dodge (Stephen Baldwin) still thinks of himself as an ordinary criminal. His fellow convict, Piper (Lawrence Fishburne), whose basic decency leads...
Cast: Vic Armstrong
Tags: Action Thriller Action
Length: 88min
Kevin Hooks (Passenger 57) directed this action drama about an ex-convict tricked into trucking illegal weapons across state lines. Truckdriver Jack Crews (Patrick Swayze) fell asleep at the wheel, resulting in an accident that brought him a...
Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (1992)
Cast: Kevin Hooks
Tags: Police Drama Crime Drama Drama
Length: 96min
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...
The Color of Friendship (2000)
Tags: Childhood Drama Family Docudrama
Length: 83min
This made-for-TV drama is based on the true story of Ron V. Dellums, an African-American congressman who housed a white exchange student from South Africa during the height of South Africa's minority rule. The Color of Friendship stars Carl Lumbly,...
Tags: War Drama Docudrama Drama
Length: 120min
This made-for-television docudrama that aired on March 28, 1999 on NBC, relates the story of an actual event that occurred during World War II, but is centered around the lives of fictional characters. On July 17, 1944 at a U.S. naval base near San...
Cast: James Earl Jones Cicely Tyson David Strathairn Sally Kirkland
Length: 92min
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...
Tags: Action Thriller Action
Length: 84min
This fast-paced action picture plays like Die Hard (1988) on an airplane. Grieving over the death of his wife at the hands of an armed robber and blaming himself for her death, anti-terrorism expert John Cutter (Wesley Snipes) is retiring from his...
Cast: LeVar Burton Louis Gossett, Jr.
Tags: Drama
Length: 94min
Deviating from the storyline of Alex Haley's book, and the classic 1977 miniseries that followed, the plotline of 1988's Roots: The Gift finds African-born slave Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) and his plantation friend Fiddler (Louis Gossett Jr.) helping...
Cast: Halle Berry Samuel L. Jackson
Tags: Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 83min
In this lively comedy, an African American yuppie rethinks life on the corporate fast-track after he falls in love with an ultra hip club promoter. Knowing that she finds him a total square, he seeks the advice of a swinging young mail boy. ~ Sandra...
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