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Showing posts with label 1991. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1991. Show all posts

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Livin Large (1991)
















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His entire life, Atlanta native Dexter Jackson has dreamt of one thing: breaking into the world of TV news. So when, by freak coincidence, he lands a job as Channel 4's "Man About Town," he finally thinks he's made it. But in order to compete on the ladder of success, Dexter soon beings to change his image and sell out his friends on TV! Before long, he finds himself shunned and alone, and faced with a not so black-and-white choice: save his career or soul.

Friday, December 2, 2016

Separate But Equal (1991, TV Movie)















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The year is 1950...and America is divided between black and white. Schools, restaurants, trains, and buses...even drinking fountains cannot be shared by both races. Although slavery has been outlawed for nearly a century, segregation is legal. But white and Negro facilities are separate and unequal...and the tension had reached a breaking point for the blacks of Clarendon County, South Carolina. When their request for a single school bus is denied by white school officials, a bitter, violent and courageous battle for justice and equality begins...pitting black against white and friend against neighbor all across the country.

The dramatic evens leading from a small rural classroom to the Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation are powerfully reenacted in this contemporary screen classic, beautifully scripted and superbly portrayed by some of Hollywood's finest actors. Sidney Poitier is Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP lawyer who took the struggle for equal rights to the highest court in the land. Burt Lancaster plays John W. Davis, the opposing counsel, and Richard Kiley is Chief Justice Earl Warren, who rallied the Court to landmark ruling. Together they capture the complex emotional dynamics of one of the country's most significant and inspiring achievements. 

Thursday, January 10, 2013

True Identity (1991)













Starring:
  • Lenny Henry
  • Frank Langella
  • Charles Lane
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True Identity is a comedy about a black actor named Miles Pope who wants to play a part in Othello. After a plane ride home from a failed acting job Miles meets a producer named Leland Carver who slips out his mob identity when the plane is about to crash but after all of that the plane does not crash. Now Miles is the only man who knows the past to this mob man. Miles gets the help of his best friend make-up artist Duane to turn him into a White man. As Miles is packing his stuff to get out of town, the hitman walks in and a struggle is in affect. Miles wins the fight and kills the hitman in an electrical fashion. Now Anthony (Leland Carver's top man) comes in to confirm that Miles is dead. Now Miles is mistaken as the hitman. Now Miles must assume a parade of identity's to get away from the Mob's guns hot on his trail.

Monday, January 7, 2013

Carolina Skeletons (1991)

















Starring:
  • Louis Gossett Jr.
  • Bruce Dern
  • Melissa Leo
Storyline
After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, his brother was executed for the rape and murder of two white girls. The commando believes his brother to have been innocent and seeks a proof for that, but there are some people in the town who will stop at nothing to hide the secrets of their past...