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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

House Party 2 (1991)














































Starring:
Rapper-turned-scholar Kid (Christopher Reid) gets into college, but he runs out of cash just as classes start. Desperate for dough, he tries working in the cafeteria, but when his time spent serving slop to students starts to interfere with studying and his relationship with girlfriend Sidney (Tisha Campbell), he looks for a new plan. He calls up his old partner in partying, Play (Christopher Martin), and they organize a pajama shindig, where women dress scantily and men must pay to enter.

The Enemy Within (1994)











Starring:
  • Forest Whitaker
  • Jason Robards
  • Sam Waterston
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Colonel Casey discovers what appears to be plans by General Lloyd to use fake military excercises to assist Jack Giddings in his plans to remove President Foster from office. Colonel Casey, and President Foster must find evidence that there is a coup planned and stop it, before it takes place. Unfortunately, there isn't much time.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Wilma (1977, TV Movie)


























Starring:
  • Shirley Jo Finney
  • Cicely Tyson
  • Jason Bernard
  • Joe Seneca
  • Denzel Washington
  • Charles Blackwell
  • Norman Matlock
  • Larry B. Scott
  • RĂ©jane Magloire
  • Piper Carter
  • Pauletta Washington
  • Andrea Frierson
  • Stacy Green
  • Dury Cox
  • Roger Askew
  • J. Franklin Taylor
  • L. Warren Young
In the 1960 Rome Olympics, Wilma Rudolph became the fastest woman in the world and the first American woman to win three gold medals at one Olympic competition. But the story of how she got there makes her achievement legendary.