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Ossie Davis Movies
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Starring:
Anthony Mackie,
Kerry Washington,
Ellen Barkin,
Monica Bellucci,
Jim Brown,
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I'm sure somewhere in "She Hate Me" lies a good story that would make
for an entertaining movie. What we have, however, is a convoluted mess
that tries too hard to be a social satire. The premise: Jack Armstrong (Anthony Mackie), a hotshot VP at a
pharmaceutical company, suddenly finds himself unemployed and in need
of money. When his ex-fianc...
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Genres:
Biography
Drama
Starring:
Mario Van Peebles,
Joy Bryant,
T.K. Carter,
Terry Crews,
Ossie Davis,
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It's a real shame that mediocre indie films, such as "Open Water" and
"Napoleon Dynamite," get tons of publicity while a gem like
"Baadasssss!" goes unnoticed.Director and co-writer Mario Van Peebles affectionately, but
truthfully, chronicles a fictional telling of his father, Melvin Van
Peebles' attempt to make "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," modern
black cinema's groundb...
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Genres:
Comedy
Horror
Mystery
Fantasy
Starring:
Bruce Campbell,
Ossie Davis,
Ella Joyce,
Heidi Marnhout,
Bob Ivy,
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I recently had the wonderful opportunity to see this film at a horror and
fantasy convention. Since it is not yet in distribution I jumped at the
chance. Just to set the record straight, I didn't go into this film with
normal expectations. The god that is known as Bruce Campbell stars in
this
film, and let's just say that any morsel of Bruce Campbell goodness I can
get i...
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Genres:
Animation
Adventure
Family
Thriller
Starring:
D.B. Sweeney,
Alfre Woodard,
Ossie Davis,
Max Casella,
Hayden Panettiere,
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Finally Disney has created an animation that isn't sugar-sweet!What usually bugs me about Disney's films is the constant bursting-into-song
sequences that clog up the stories, and the comic side-kicks that keep
making bad jokes. No such thing in Dinosaur! It's a serious movie that is
very sad and partially cruel: a wonderful tale of courage and survival, told
with respect for the a...
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Genres:
Animation
Adventure
Family
Thriller
Starring:
D.B. Sweeney,
Alfre Woodard,
Ossie Davis,
Max Casella,
Hayden Panettiere,
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Finally Disney has created an animation that isn't sugar-sweet!What usually bugs me about Disney's films is the constant bursting-into-song
sequences that clog up the stories, and the comic side-kicks that keep
making bad jokes. No such thing in Dinosaur! It's a serious movie that is
very sad and partially cruel: a wonderful tale of courage and survival, told
with respect for the a...
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Genres:
Drama
Fantasy
Romance
Starring:
Bruce Greenwood,
Melissa Gilbert,
Ossie Davis,
Scotty Leavenworth,
Todd Allen,
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Genres:
Comedy
Family
Starring:
Eddie Murphy,
Ossie Davis,
Oliver Platt,
Peter Boyle,
Richard Schiff,
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John Dolittle was a worrying child – his father always caught him pretending
to talk to animals and eventually had to get him to stop it. As an adult,
his gift is long forgotten until he hits a dog with his car and hears it
talk to him. When he realises that he is not going crazy and he can talk to
them he is suddenly inundated with animals to treat, his family is falling
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Walter Matthau,
Ossie Davis,
Amy Irving,
Craig T. Nelson,
Boyd Gaines,
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In I'm Not Rappaport, a film by Herb Gardner based on his Tony award winning
play, two octogenarians Nat (Walter Matthau) and Midge (Ossie Davis) meet
regularly on a park bench in New York's Central Park. The film centers on
their relationship as they reminisce about past loves, talk about unions and
bosses, old age, and idealism. Nat is a chameleon who assumes the role of
spy,...
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Genres:
Adventure
Drama
Fantasy
Horror
Starring:
Gary Sinise,
Molly Ringwald,
Jamey Sheridan,
Ruby Dee,
Miguel Ferrer,
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Prior to the release of It, The Stand was my favourite King novel. It's a
gargantuan effort which weaves a huge cast of disparate characters into an
epic tale of the struggle between good and evil on the eve of Armageddon.
I
used to think about what kind of a movie could be constructed from the
novel, even going so far as to pick a cast, but I always knew in my heart
that ...
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Genres:
Thriller
Mystery
Drama
Starring:
Susan Sarandon,
Tommy Lee Jones,
Mary-Louise Parker,
Anthony LaPaglia,
J.T. Walsh,
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Susan Sarandon should stick with the tough
minded lawyer more often. Perfectly cast in
the role of Reggie Love, she brings a certain
charm to a role which could have lacked in
that department. And to make matters even
tougher on her, she was almost outshined
by Brad Renfro, who made quite an impression
in a film such as this. While the film was put
together ...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Starring:
Jack Lemmon,
Walter Matthau,
Ann-Margret,
Burgess Meredith,
Daryl Hannah,
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I write this in 2001. Sadly, at this time, all three of the "Grumpy Old
Men" (Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Burgess Meredith) have now passed
on.
But this film will show that some of your best work can come in your
golden
years.I first saw "Grumpy Old Men" against protest. Though I'd heard of its
legacy at being "SO funny!"-- I rebelled against the idea of seeing two
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Genres:
Action
Drama
Sport
Starring:
James Marshall,
Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Robert Loggia,
T.E. Russell,
Jon Seda,
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Genres:
Comedy
Romance
Starring:
Tom Hanks,
Meg Ryan,
Lloyd Bridges,
Robert Stack,
Abe Vigoda,
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Most people didn't "get" this film. But each of us has a different
sense of humour and depth. JVTV is a subtle, witty film with morals,
not like the bash 'em and blow 'em up Hollywood films of late. Meg Ryan
shows her versatility as three separate, wonderfully funny characters
and Tom Hanks (think of his character in The Money Pit but amusingly
depressed) as Joe Banks trapped i...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Starring:
Danny Aiello,
Ossie Davis,
Ruby Dee,
Richard Edson,
Giancarlo Esposito,
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In all likelihood Spike Lee's most important achievement - as director,
writer and actor (though to my taste Mo' Better Blues is just as good a
picture) and one of the strongest films you'll see about race
relations, 'Do The Right Thing' looks dated at times, but it lost none
of its impact and relevance. The movie takes place in a particularly
hot day in a primarily African-Ame...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Musical
Starring:
Laurence Fishburne,
Giancarlo Esposito,
Tisha Campbell-Martin,
Kyme,
Joe Seneca,
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Genres:
Comedy
Western
Starring:
Burt Reynolds,
Clint Walker,
Ossie Davis,
William Schallert,
Woodrow Parfrey,
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It's no mystery that Burt Reynolds is one of the most underestimated
actors of our time. In this particular film, he gave us one of his best
comedy-stilish acting ("no-one noticed it", he said) which makes this
movie working. Burt's acting would be enough to make it watchable, but
also Ossie Davis and Clint Walker fit well in their roles.For me the remarkable of this movie is a) th...
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Genres:
Comedy
Western
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Shelley Winters,
Telly Savalas,
Ossie Davis,
Dabney Coleman,
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"The Scalphunters" opens with an illiterate frontier fur trapper named
Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) refusing to trade his furs, with the Kiowa
Indians, for a runaway field slave… But at the end, he is forced at
gunpoint to do that and Bass finds himself, in one moment, the owner of
Joseph Lee (Ossie Davis), an escapee from Louisiana, formerly of the
Comanche tribe, until stol...
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Genres:
Drama
War
Starring:
Sean Connery,
Harry Andrews,
Ian Bannen,
Alfred Lynch,
Ossie Davis,
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I can't think of a film less appreciated than this one. The tragedy of THE
HILL began with its horribly botched release in 1965 - a textbook example of
studio stupidity. On the other side of the equation, film purists who were
worshipping at the alter of goofs like Godard's "Alphaville" turned up their
noses at this movie because it starred the "lightweight" commercial actor
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