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Biography: Mario Van Peebles

The son of African American director/writer Melvin Van Peebles, Mario van Peebles made his acting bow in a small role in his dad's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971). At the time, Van Peebles had no burning desire to become a performer, choosing instead to study economics at Columbia University. He wavered between a financial and an acting career before becoming a full-time actor with the 1984 film Cotton Club. In 1988, Van Peebles starred in a conformist TV comedy adventure series, Sonny Spoon, playing a glib private eye with a predilection for elaborate disguises; this brief series afforded him his first opportunity to direct. Three years later he made his film directing debut with New Jack City, a film widely praised by some as being a truthful, no-nonsense dissection of inner-city life, and widely derided by others as merely a slick outgrowth of the "blaxploitation" flicks of the 1970s. Van Peebles played a major role in New Jack City, as he would in his subsequent Posse (1993), a revisionist western about a Utopian all-black community. Van Peebles' next directorial endeavor was Panthers (1995), a recounting of the Black Panther Movement that came under fire from several of the real-life activists depicted in the film despite the fact that Van Peebles steadfastly defended it as historically accurate. In addition to making and starring in his own films, Van Peebles occasionally appears in the films of others. He had a starring role in Clint Eastwood's Heartbreak Ridge (1986) and for his performance earned an NAACP Image Award. On television, Van Peebles has starred in a number of prestigious productions, including The Emperor Jones for PBS and The Pool Hall opposite James Earl Jones. For this latter role, Van Peebles was nominated for a Cable ACE award. For his work in Children of the Night he received a Bronze Halo Award. He has also directed episodes of television series, notably those of producer Steven J. Cannell. For directing the ABC After School Special: Malcolm Takes a Shot, he received a nomination for a Directors Guild Award. In the late '90s, Van Peebles joined a growing trend and starred in an elaborate CD-Rom game for Sony called Solo in which he played an android superhero with a human learning capacity. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha (2008)
Tags: Road Movie Comedy Drama Art Film Film a Clef Coming-of-Age
Length: 99min
Melvin Van Peebles, director of the landmark independent film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, embraces the new age of digital filmmaking with his picaresque comedy, shot using DV equipment and taking full advantage of its creative possibilities....
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Hard Luck (2006)
Cast: Cybill Shepherd Wesley Snipes
Tags: Crime Thriller Thriller
Length: 101min
An infamous ex-con on the road to redemption finds his quest unexpectedly complicated by the police, the mafia, and two of the nation's most vicious serial killers in a high octane crime thriller starring and directed by Mario Van Peebles and...
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The Uniter (2008)
Tags: Science Fiction
Length: min
Mario Van Peebles writes and directs this sci-fi tale that follows a political exile who goes back in time to train a young teen who could bring peace to the future of the planet. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
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Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005)
Cast: Luis Guzman
Tags: Period Film Gangster Film Crime Crime Drama
Length: 93min
In this belated prequel to director Brian De Palma's 1993 crime drama, gangster Carlito Brigante (Jay Hernandez) rises through the ranks of the New York underworld to establish himself as Spanish Harlem's most powerful kingpin. As the intoxication of...
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Sharpshooter (2007)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles
Tags: Action Thriller Action
Length: 84min
James Remar and Melvin Van Peebles headline this relentlessly tense tale of a special ops sniper who reluctantly accepts one final mission before disappearing into retirement. Dillon (Remar) is a special ops sharpshooter extraordinaire - the kind of...
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BAADASSSSS! (2003)
Cast: Ossie Davis Melvin Van Peebles Michael Mann Nia Long Paul Rodriguez Adam West
Tags: Period Film Docudrama Drama Showbiz Drama
Length: 108min
In 1971, filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles released his third film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which he wrote, directed, and scored. Despite boasting an all-black cast, an X rating, a low budget, and a decidedly non-Hollywood approach to...
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Crown Heights (2004)
Cast: Howie Mandel
Tags: Urban Drama Docudrama Drama
Length: 89min
Racial tensions between Hasidic Jews and African-Americans come to a boil in the Crown Heights section of Queens in this powder-keg drama based on real-life events that took place in the summer of 1991. Over the course of three days, the tensions...
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10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)
Cast: Robert Townsend
Tags: Biopic Historical Film
Length: 90min
In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied their civil and economic rights. So in 1925, when journalist and political activist Asa Philip...
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The Hebrew Hammer (2002)
Cast: Peter Coyote
Tags: Comedy Holiday Film Parody/Spoof Religious Comedy
Length: 85min
He's hip, he's fly, and he never mixes meat with dairy -- he's the world's first Jewish private eye, and he's out to save the world in this satiric comedy. Mordechai Jefferson Carver (Adam Goldberg) is a super-cool Jewish detective who takes no mess...
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44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shootout (2003)
Cast: Michael Madsen
Tags: Crime Drama Docudrama Crime
Length: 95min
On February 28, 1997, a pair of heavily armed and heavily armored outlaws named Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasarenu, who had previously cut a crooked swath throughout the Los Angeles area as "The High Incident Bandits," botched the robbery...
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