Animal Factory 2000  R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Steve Buscemi
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Seymour Cassel, Mickey Rourke, Steve Buscemi, Tom Arnold, John Heard, Danny Trejo, Jake La Botz, Afemo Omilami
When a young hood, Ron Decker (Edward Furlong), is sent to prison at age 21, he runs into Earl Copen (Willem Dafoe) who assumes the role of mentor. Copen has learned how to survive in prison surroundings, takes Ron under his wing, and teaches him how to survive in the animal factory.
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 Bringing Out the Dead 1999  R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Marc Anthony, Mary Beth Hurt, Cliff Curtis, Nestor Serrano, Aida Turturro, Sonja Sohn, Arthur J. Nascarella, Cynthia Roman, Afemo Omilami, Cullen O. Johnson
Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage) is a burned-out paramedic working in Gotham's Hell's Kitchen. After five years on the job, Frank finds himself hallucinating about two women: 18-year-old Rose (Cynthia Roman), who he was unable to save and for whom he wants redemption, and Mary Burke (Patricia Arquette) whose father, a heart attack victim, Frank was unable to resuscitate. Through it all, the unrelenting chaos of answering emergency calls continues to take its toll.
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Hounddog 2008  R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Deborah Kampmeier
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Piper Laurie, David Morse, Robin Wright Penn, Afemo Omilami, Isabelle Fuhman, Cody Hanford, Ryan Pelton, Christoph Sanders, Jill Scott, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Jody Thompson, Ron Prather, Sean Andrew Wallace, William Smith Yelton
In the 1950s, young Lewellen (Dakota Fanning) lives with her religious zealot Grammie (Piper Laurie) and alcoholic Daddy (David Morse) in rural Alabama. Lewellen finds comfort in her dreams of singing with her idol Elvis Presley (Ryan Pelton). Her best friend Buddy (Cody Hanford) promises her a ticket to an Elvis Presley show–if she will meet him at the watering hole. She goes to the watering hole, but Buddy betrays her, and Wooden's Boy (Christoph Sanders) rapes her, which changes her life. Now, with help from medicine man Charles (Aferno Omilami), Lewellen learns more about her beloved blues music and finds hope for the future.
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Selma, Lord, Selma 1999 TV, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Burnett
Cast: Mackenzie Astin, Jurnee Smollett, Stephanie Zandra Peyton, Clifton Powell, Ella Joyce, Yolanda King, Elizabeth Omilami, Afemo Omilami, Brett Rice, Tom Nowicki, Zach Rogers, Von Coulter
After listening to Martin Luther King Jr. (Clifton Powell) speak during 1965 in Alabama, 11-year-old Sheyann Webb (Jurnee Smollett) and her best friend, Rachel West (Stephanie Zandra Payton), join the Civil Rights Movement. Despite racial violence permeating their world, the girls persevere in support of Dr. King and join him on the march from Selma to Montgomery.
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The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn 1999 PG, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gregg Champion
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Dianne Wiest, Mary-Louise Parker, George Newbern, Roxzane T. Mims, Afemo Omilami, Bernie Casey, Patty Mack, John Bedford Lloyd, Sharon Blackwood
Noah Dearborn (Sidney Poitier) is a 91-year-old carpenter who decides to stand and fight for his 35 acres of Georgia land despite plans of a developer to buy up the surrounding area.
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Tigerland 2000 R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr., Tom Guiry, Shea Whigham, Russell Richardson, Nick Searcy, Afemo Omilami, Keith Ewell, Matt Gerald, James Macdonald, Stephen Fulton, Arian Waring Ash, Tyler Cravens, Michael Edmiston
On their way to Vietnam during the 1970s, recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk in Louisiana. When one draftee, Roland Bozz (Colin Farrell), doesn't exactly play by the rules, it isn't long before others follow suit. But, Bozz's actions backfire when his superiors see the insubordination as a sign of intelligence and regard him as a future leader. Their week in the Louisiana swamp, Tigerland, just might prove as dangerous as Vietnam when the men make decisions about whether or not they will go to war.
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| 1. Animal Factory (2000)
2. Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
3. Hounddog (2008)
4. Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)
5. The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
6. Tigerland (2000)
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