Robert Townsend
Robert Townsend er en amerikansk skuespiller og regissør kjent for sine roller i filmene Ms. Pat: Yall Wanna Hear Something Crazy?, Making the Five Heartbeats, Bill Cosby: Far from Finished og Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy. Han har også vært med i filmer som Phantom Punch, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, Holiday Heart, Up, Up and Away, og The Five Heartbeats. Townsend ligger også bak regien av filmklassikeren Hollywood Shuffle og har hatt roller i filmer som Ratboy og Streets of Fire. Bruk filteret under for å finne de mest populære eller nyeste filmene og seriene med Robert Townsend.
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Ms. Pat: Y'all Wanna Hear Something Crazy?
Ms. Pat ser det komiske i foreldrerollen, kjæledyrelskere og uheldige leppetrender når hun forteller om en vond fortid med humor og ærlighet.
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A Soldier's Story
Tensions flare in this gripping film about a murder on a black army base near the end of World War II. Captain Davenport (Howard E. Rollins, JR.), a proud black army attorney, is sent to Fort Neal, Louisiana, to investigate the ruthless shooting death of Sergeant Waters (Adolph Caesar). Through interviews with Sarge's men, Davenport learns that he was a vicious man who served the white world and despised his own roots. Was the killer a bigoted white officer? Or could he have been a black soldier embittered by Waters' constant race baiting? Directed by Norman Jewison from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize- winning play, A SOLDIER'S STORY is both a spellbinding mystery and a superb drama that transcends race.
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Making the Five Heartbeats
Making The Five Heartbeats documentary is a love letter to the millions and millions of fans that love The Five Heartbeats film, about a fictitious R&B singing group like the Temptations, that tells the classic rags to riches story while pulling at your heart. The doc is an inspiring journey of filmmaker, Robert Townsend, in search of a classic. His quest to get the film made with all of the ups and downs, relying on his faith, street smarts and tenacity to not give up. The documentary provides the audience with an intimate glimpse behind the scenes of the making of this beloved classic. It’s also the ultimate master class with filmmaker, Robert Townsend, sharing his unique creative process.
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Bill Cosby: Far from Finished
Stand-Up Comedy Bill Cosby is "Far From Finished." In his first special in thirty years, he leaves the audience asking, "How did he get inside our house?" Whether he's talking about friendship, love or marriage, the result is people laughing so hard their faces hurt.
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Phantom Punch
I Phantom Punch får vi følge med på både seire og tragedier i Sonny Listons liv, at han ble utsatt for rasisme og hadde problemer med både mafiaen og politiet. Privatlivet hans skildres også, bl.a. forholdet til konen, til manageren og til elskerinnen. Phantom Punch skildrer livet både i fattigdom og i fengselet som verdensmesteren Sonny Liston, og gir et overbevisende bilde av mannen bak overskriftene.
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Why We Laugh
Why We Laugh gir oss historien om svart amerikansk humor og de komikerne som har fått oss til å le siden 1901. Gjennom intervjuer og filmklipp fra ulike opptredener får vi vite mer om komikere som Stepin Fetchit, Eddie Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Rock og Bill Cosby.
Carmen: A Hip Hopera
Den sensuelle frontfiguren fra Destiny's Child's, Beyoncé Knowles (Austin Powers in Goldmember), spiller den forførende Carmen Brown i den første hip-hop-operaen som noensinne er laget. Carmen: A Hip Hopera tolker Georges Bizet's klassiske opera Carmen i en nåtids, urban setting, hvor dramaet utspiller seg i diktform og sangene uttrykker primitive følelser. Mekhi Phifer, Reagan Gomez-Preston og artistene Mos Def (aka Dante Beze), Wyclef Jean, Lil' Bow Wow og Da Brat spiller også i denne skarpe og provoserende fortellingen om et skjebnesvangert par.
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Holiday Heart
After suffering the loss of his long-time partner, Holiday, an aging drag queen (Ving Rhames) forges a new family with a homeless drug addict (Alfre Woodard) and her daughter.
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Holiday Heart
Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) directs an all-star cast featuring Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible: 2), Mykelti Williamson (Three Kings) and Alfre Woodard ("Miss Ever's Boys") in a Golden Globe®-nominated* performance. Based on the wildly successful stage play by writer Cheryl L. West, Holiday Heart is a "poignant" (The Hollywood Reporter), heartfelt drama about how love can overcome addiction and prejudice. Choirmaster by day and female impersonator by night, creatively talented Holiday (Rhames) is a lonely man living with a broken heart until he befriends a bright young girl and her drug-addicted mother (Woodard). Helping them off the street and into an empty apartment across from his, Holiday quickly forms a special bond with them. But when the mom hooks up with a dangerous drug-dealing boyfriend (Williamson), their worlds are again turned upside-down, forcing Holiday to confront his own prejudices if it means saving the two people he so desperately loves. *2001: Actress in a Leading Role - Mini-Series or Television Movie
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Opp, opp og avsted
Marshall-familien er ikke en vanlig familie. Selv om de opptrer som vanlige, er de faktisk superhelter. Scott Marshall har ventet spent på sin 14-årsdag, vanligvis en tid hvor superhelter får fullstendig kontroll over kreftene sine. Uheldigvis, med den store dagen mindre enn en uke unna, viser ikke Scott noen tegn til usedvanlig oppførsel. Men, når familien hans blir fanget av et ondt geni, er Scott deres siste håp for å stoppe den onde planen og redde menneskeheten.
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American Flyers
Idrettslegen Marcus overbeviser sin ustabile bror David om å bli med ham på trening til et sykkelritt gjennom Rocky Mountains. Marcus forteller ikke David at han har en aneurisme som kan lamme eller drepe ham når som helst. Mens David styrer mot seier, må Marcus innse at konkurransen nå er bortenfor hans evner.
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The Five Heartbeats
Loosely based on the life and times of several R&B artists (The Dells, The Temptations, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke and others) The Five Heartbeats traces the rise and fall of a popular African-American 1950s singing aggregation. The story is told from the point of view of one of the "Heartbeats," played by Robert Townsend (who also co-produced, directed and co-wrote the script with Keenan Ivory Waynans). The film is an amalgam of anecdotes drawn from real-life experiences: the long struggle upward, the first rush of success, the dishonest record-company executives, the hard-nosed but nurturing managers, the sex, the drugs, the isolation and the precipitous downward slide. The film begins and ends in the 1990s, as the middle-aged "Duck" (Townsend) ruminates on the past and makes the best of the present.
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Eddie Murphy: Raw
Eddie Murphy does his uproarious stand-up routine in concert, shot at N.Y.C's Felt Forum.
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Eddie Murphy Raw
A must for fans of the 80s' number one comic-turned-actor, this is a nasty, wickedly funny and completely uncensored stand-up show with Murphy at his raunchy best.
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Gale drømmer i Hollywood
This film takes a satirical look at the ambivalent relationship between Hollywood power brokers and African-American performers. The filmmaker also stars as Bobby Taylor, a struggling actor looking for his big break in the entertainment industry. While working a day job flipping burgers, Bobby heads out to insulting casting calls where white casting agents pass judgement on whether he seems "black enough." When Bobby actually does earn a big role, he is forced to choose between accepting work that opens doors, but ultimately demeans him and returning to obscurity with his principles intact.
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Ratboy
I denne fabelen som handler om å godta forskjeller støter Nikki (Sondra Locke), en eksentrisk ung kvinne som drømmer om rikdom og berømmelse, hennes to fjamsete brødre, to lettlurte eksfanger og en gatesmart småsvindler på helten vår – en rar, sympatisk kar som ligner mest på ei rotte. Nikki plan om å oppnå rikdom og berømmelse i Hollywood ved å utnytte hennes nye venn slår sprekker når hun blir kjent med den merkelige lille Ratboy.
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