Biography: Lonette McKee |
From stage to screen to recording studios, Lonette McKee has worked as both an actress and vocalist. Although actors who also sing have been a dime a dozen since the earliest days of stage and cinema, McKee's groundbreaking performance as the first... more
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Cast: Will Smith
Tags: Teen Movie Comedy Drama Coming-of-Age Urban Drama
Length: 107min
A tightly knit group of working-class Atlanta teens spend their time bonding over hip-hop and roller skating while pondering life after high school in director Chris Robinson's coming-of-age comedy drama that draws inspirations from the real-life...
Tags: Family Drama Crime Drama Crime Drama
Length: 85min
A thief plans one last heist -- though hardly for the typical reasons -- in this offbeat drama. Neicy (Kerry Washington) is a stylish, well-dressed young woman who maintains an air of intelligent arrogance in her part-time job as a window dresser at...
Cast: Louise Lasser
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama Urban Comedy
Length: 95min
Amos Kollek directs this quiet, understated comedy about lonely hearts and empty pockets in New York. Pushing 40, Bella (Anna Thomson) works as a waitress at small downtown diner in Manhattan. Her elderly regulars include Paul (Robert Modica), a...
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...
Cast: Bertrand Tavernier Martin Scorsese
Tags: Drama Showbiz Drama Musical Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 133min
A French music lover befriends a once-great American jazz artist and attempts to save him from self-destruction in this moody drama. Saxophonist Dexter Gordon portrays Dale Turner, a fictional musician inspired by a number of famed jazz figures,...
Cast: Walter Hill Jerry Orbach Stephen Collins Hume Cronyn
Tags: Screwball Comedy Comedy
Length: 101min
The seventh cinema adaptation of the venerable stage farce Brewster's Millions stars Richard Pryor as Montgomery Brewster, a third-rate baseball player. Much to his amazement, Brewster discovers that he is related to deceased millionaire Rupert Horn...
Cast: Francis Ford Coppola John Barry Bob Hoskins Richard Gere Nicolas Cage
Tags: Period Film Musical Drama Gangster Film Drama
Length: 127min
Combining electric song and dance performances with drama (both on and off screen), Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984) looks back to the 1920s-1930s peak of the legendary Harlem nightclub where only blacks performed and only whites could...
Cast: Richard Pryor
Length: 94min
This Americanized remake of Lina Wertmuller's The Seduction of Mimi offered audiences the novelty of seeing Richard Pryor performing three different roles in the same film. Which Way Is Up? tells the tale of Leroy Jones (Pryor), a poor orange picker...
Cast: Lonette McKee Irene Cara
Tags: Drama Showbiz Drama Musical Drama
Length: 98min
A trio of musically talented Harlem sisters rise to become major stars of the '50s. Unfortunately, their sudden popularity causes much turmoil in their lives. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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