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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The Wash (2001)























Starring:
  • Dr. Dre
  • Snoop Dogg
  • Anthony Albano
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With the rent due and his car booted, Sean (Dr. Dre) has to come up with some ends...and fast. When his best buddy and roommate Dee Loc (Snoop Dogg), suggests that Sean get a job busting suds down at the local car wash, the first order of business is impressing Mr. Washington (George Wallace) the gun-toting, dominoes-playing owner of The Wash. Unaware that the two are roomies, Mr. Washington hires Sean as Dee Loc's supervisor. Comic tensions flare between the two, especially when Dee Loc suspects Sean of trying to slow his roll with the side hustles he's got going on in the car wash parking lot...and with the ladies in the locker room. But there are bigger things to worry about at The Wash. One is the menacing phone calls from a disgruntled employee, and the other is figuring out how to get money to pay off the kidnappers who've snatched Mr. Washington! If Sean, Dee Loc, and the rest of the gang don't settle their differences and get Mr. Washington back, the good times at The Wash ...

Monday, March 18, 2013

Streets of Gold (1986)

 















Starring:
  • Wesley Snipes
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Adrian Pasdar
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Alek is an immigrant from the Soviet Union who was a talented boxer in his day, but he was not allowed on the Soviet national team because he was a Jew. Depressed and discouraged, he meets two young amateur boxers. As their coach, he trains them for glory.

Sweet Love, Bitter (1967)



















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Sweet Love, Bitter, tells the story of a fictional Jazz musician, loosely based on the life of CHARLIE PARKER, and the struggles of a black musician in white America. With score by MAL WALDRON. Stars Dick Gregory, Don Murray, Diane Varsi, et. al. An obscure indie film, originally released in 1967.