Storyline As the Harlem Renaissance flourishes in jazzy New York City,
Pauline (Vanessa Williams), Esther (Lynn Whitfield) and Alice (Jasmine
Guy) struggle to survive. By day, they toil at dreary jobs, dreaming of
stardom, riches and happiness. By night, they dance their troubles away
at the famous Savoy Ballroom. But when World War II
appears on the horizon, the girls find their fortunes unfolding too
unevenly to reconcile, and they inevitably begin to drift apart.
Storyline Two ex-football players concentrate on living the good life in Miami. In
their spare time, they're private eyes, but their partying lifestyles
are thrown for a loop when they accept a mysterious challenge from an
exotic beauty... Fred Williamson features the action star as a
cigar-smoking detective named Mac Derringer. He is enlisted by his
ex-wife (Vanity), a phone-sex operator, to catch the masked psychopath
who murdered her co-worker.
With the aid of partner Gary Busey and friend Peter Fonda, Derringer
closes in on the maniac, but is soon framed for murder. Williamson has
an interracial love scene, there's a stoolie who raps, and a subplot
involves blackmail and pornography. The Jeffersons' Isabel Sanford
appears as Derringer's mother, and the familiar genre cast features
Stella Stevens, Robert Forster, and Henry Silva.
Storyline After 3 DEA agents are killed by Mr. Li, martial arts champion Tyler
Wilson (Billy Blanks) is sent on assignment to Toronto and teams up with Michael Reeds.
Wilson and Reeds enter a martial arts tournament, where they end up
saving Mr. Li from being killed by a rival crime boss. Li invites the
two to join his staff. As Wilson and Reeds get closer to the truth about
Li's operation, they gather the needed evidence, but will have to
escape Li, alive.