76% (3) The Original Kings of Comedy 115 min, R, [Comedy, Documentary] [Spike Lee] [18 Aug 2000]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, Rotten Tomatoes: 86%, Metacritic: 76%, External Reviews
Awards: 3 nominations.
Actors: Bernie Mac, Cedric the Entertainer, D.L. Hughley, Steve Harvey
Writer: Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Bernie Mac
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Plot: February 26 and 27, 2000, the Original Kings of Comedy play Charlotte, NC. The themes are Blacks and Whites, men and women, old-school and hip-hop. Steve Harvey emcees, celebrates '70s music and lyrics of love, and pokes at folks in the front row. D.L. Hughley mines racial differences and talks about his marriage. Cedric the Entertainer riffs on a Black president and on being grown up. Bernie Mac, who says he expresses what's in the back of our minds, closes with reflections on being 42 (new aspects to his sex life and his attitude toward children). Spike Lee's camera takes us backstage and off-stage with the Kings and into the crowd where everyone's laughing.
Rotten Tomatoes: A selection of concert highlights from two nights of the long-running "Original Kings of Comedy" tour, featuring the talents of Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, D.L. Hughley and Bernie Mac, and including behind-the-scenes footage.
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73% (3) Bad Santa 91 min, R, [Comedy, Crime, Drama] [Terry Zwigoff] [26 Nov 2003]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, Rotten Tomatoes: 78%, Metacritic: 70%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 11 nominations.
Actors: Bernie Mac, Billy Bob Thornton, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham, Tony Cox
Writer: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
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Plot: Willie T. Stokes is a convicted con man who's led a miserable life. He drinks heavily and constantly embarrasses himself publicly. He only works once a year dressed as Santa. But then come Christmas Eve, he and his pint-sized helper dwarf Marcus stage elaborate robberies and take their department stores for everything they got. This year, they hit a mall in suburban Phoenix, Arizona. This time around, Willie gets distracted by having sex with large women, a bartender who is attracted to Santas, and a kid who's convinced he's the real deal. However, this time around Marcus must once again put up with Willie's heavy drinking and a series of incidents that constantly shoot themselves in the foot. Not to mention a nosy department store security guard who's onto them and wants his cut of the loot. Will Willie and Marcus make it to next Christmas? Or will this be the year the dynamic duo finally face justice?
Rotten Tomatoes: The Christmas season just got a lot less joyous in this very dark comedy. Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) is a con man and a thief who teams up with his friend Marcus (Tony Cox), a midget, for a very special scam each year during the holiday season. Willie gets a job as Santa Claus at a shopping mall, his pal tags along as an elf, and they use their employee status to crack mall security and rob stores blind just before Christmas. However, there's one flaw to this plan -- Willie is a bitter, foul-mouthed and perpetually grouchy alcoholic who doesn't care for kids, and it's all he can do to keep himself from getting fired while on the job. The mall's manager (John Ritter, in his last film appearance) is certain something's wrong with the Santa he's hired, so he asks the mall's chief of security (Bernie Mac) to do some research on Willie. Meanwhile, one of the kids Willie is forced to talk to becomes a regular customer; overweight, awkward, and the frequent target of bullies, the boy manages to arouse something like sympathy from Willie, who tries to give him some advice and develops something vaguely resembling Christmas sprit along the way. Bad Santa was directed by Terry Zwigoff, who enjoyed previous success with Crumb and Ghost World. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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53% (3) Pride 104 min, PG, [Drama, Family, Sport] [Sunu Gonera] [23 Mar 2007]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, Rotten Tomatoes: 45%, Metacritic: 55%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins & 3 nominations.
Actors: Bernie Mac, Kimberly Elise, Terrence Howard, Tom Arnold
Writer: Kevin Michael Smith (screenplay), Michael Gozzard (screenplay), J. Mills Goodloe (screenplay), Norman Vance Jr. (screenplay), Kevin Michael Smith (story), Michael Gozzard (story)
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Plot: The determined Jim Ellis starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation.
Rotten Tomatoes: The year is 1973, and Jim Ellis, a college-educated African-American, can't find a job. Driven by his love of competitive swimming, Jim converts an abandoned recreational pool hall in a Philadelphia slum with the help of Elston, a local janitor. But when city officials mark the new Philadelphia Department of Recreation for demolition, Jim fights back--by starting the city's first African-American swim team. Recruiting troubled teens from the streets, Jim struggles to transform a motley team of novices into capable swimmers--all in time for the upcoming state championships. But as racism, violence and an unsympathetic city official threaten to tear the team apart, Jim must do everything he can to convince his swimmers that victory, both in and out of the pool, is within their reach.
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53% (3) Soul Men 100 min, R, [Comedy, Drama, Music] [Malcolm D. Lee] [07 Nov 2008]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, Rotten Tomatoes: 45%, Metacritic: 49%, External Reviews
Awards: 3 nominations.
Actors: Adam Herschman, Bernie Mac, Samuel L. Jackson, Sharon Leal
Writer: Robert Ramsey, Matthew Stone
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Plot: When R&B legend Marcus Hooks dies suddenly, VH-1 invites his original back up duo, Floyd Henderson and Louis Hinds, "The Real Deal," to appear at a memorial tribute at the Apollo Theater. Floyd, who's bored in retirement, wants this more than anything; Louis, a philosophical ex-con, does not. Plus, there's bad blood between them (Louis's wife Odetta left him to marry Floyd - then left Floyd). Floyd begs, Louis consents but won't fly, so they leave L.A. in Floyd's flashy Cadillac with five days to get to New York. On the road, they must get back their vocal chops, renew their friendship, and sort out the past. With Floyd's bad hip and Louis's bad kidneys, will they even make it?
Rotten Tomatoes: In 1965, Marcus Hooks (John Legend), Floyd Henderson (Bernie Mac), and Louis Hinds (Samuel L. Jackson) were just three kids singing doo-wop harmonies around a fire barrel when legendary record producer Willie Mitchell caught an earful of their infectious harmonizing. Two short years later, Marcus Hooks and the Real Deal had signed to Hi Records, and they quickly became one of the most popular soul acts in America. But success can't last forever, and it wasn't long before Hooks decided to strike out on his own. Though Floyd and Lewis did their best to keep the Real Deal going, scoring one breakout hit with "Walk in the Park," clashing egos and "creative differences" would eventually break the duo apart. Flash-forward to the new millennium, when Hooks has won a staggering total of 19 Grammy awards while Floyd and Lewis languish in obscurity. Then, one day, while considering suicide with a mouthful of pills and a bottle of liquor, Floyd is shocked to see a news report that Hooks has suddenly dropped dead just before he was slated to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In order to celebrate Hooks' career, Hi Records has organized a lavish tribute concert at the Apollo Theater. Will Floyd and Lewis be able to put aside their differences long enough to drive cross-country and perform together on-stage one last time, or will lingering grudges ultimately cause the pair's already-tenuous relationship to implode long before they reach New York City?
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50% (3) Guess Who 105 min, PG-13, [Comedy, Romance] [Kevin Rodney Sullivan] [25 Mar 2005]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, Rotten Tomatoes: 42%, Metacritic: 49%, External Reviews
Awards: 16 nominations.
Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Bernie Mac, Judith Scott, Zoe Saldana
Writer: William Rose (motion picture "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"), David Ronn (story), Jay Scherick (story), David Ronn (screenplay), Jay Scherick (screenplay), Peter Tolan (screenplay)
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Plot: Percy and Marilyn are renewing their vows for their anniversary, and their daughter Theresa brings her boyfriend Simon for them to meet. Unbeknownst to her parents, the kids plan to announce their engagement during the weekend. The Jones family is Black; Theresa neglects to tell them Simon is White. Race complicates Percy's general mistrust of any boyfriend, so he instigates an investigation of Simon, discovering he's recently lost his job and hasn't told Theresa. Mistrust rears its ugly head, and in the process of Theresa and Simon's argument, Marilyn and Percy fall out. What can the men do to cross the divide between each other and between men and women? Will anyone be exchanging vows?
Rotten Tomatoes: A man gets a very big surprise when he meets his prospective son-in-law in this comedy. Percy Jones (Bernie Mac) is the understandably proud father of Theresa (Zoe Saldana), a beautiful and intelligent young woman living in New York City. When Percy learns that his daughter is dating someone and things are getting serious, he decides to do some research, and learns that her beau is a solid businessman. Percy arranges to meet the young man, but is a bit taken aback when he comes face to face with Simon Green (Ashton Kutcher) -- Percy and his wife are African-American, and Simon is very, but very Caucasian. When it becomes clear that Simon and Theresa's relationship is likely altar-bound, Percy finds himself suddenly full of misgivings about the young man, especially since Simon tends to get rather clumsy when he's nervous. Guess Who was loosely adapted from the 1967 hit Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, though the race of the prospective father and son have been swapped, and the original film's comic undercurrent has been pushed to the forefront. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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46% (3) Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle 106 min, PG-13, [Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime] [McG] [27 Jun 2003]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 49%, Rotten Tomatoes: 42%, Metacritic: 48%, External Reviews
Awards: 9 wins & 20 nominations.
Actors: Bernie Mac, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu
Writer: Ivan Goff (television series), Ben Roberts (television series), John August (story), John August (screenplay), Cormac Wibberley (screenplay), Marianne Wibberley (screenplay)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English, Mandarin, Spanish Country: USA
Plot: The Angels--Natalie, Dylan, and Alex are back again but this time they're preparing for a strike without even warning as they go undercover to retrieve two missing silver bands. These are no ordinary rings. They contain valuable encrypted information that reveal the new identities of every person in the Federal Witness Protection Program. When witnesses start turning up dead, only the Angels, using their expertise as masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts can stop the perpetrator, a mysterious "fallen" Angel. Aided by their trusty colleague, Jimmy Bosley, the Angels' adventure begins at a remote Mongolian outpost and ends only after Dylan is forced to face a dark secret from her past--a secret that puts the lives of her two best friends in danger.
Rotten Tomatoes: Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu return alongside director McG for the sequel Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. In this adventure, the Angels are assigned by Charlie to track down a pair of missing rings encoded with the names of every federal witness in the government's protection and relocation program. The women employ all of the skills seen in the first film in order to stop the bad guys (and bad girls). Bill Murray declined to appear in the sequel. The role of Bosley has been taken over by Bernie Mac. Demi Moore rounds out the cast of this big-budget spectacle.
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42% (3) Head of State 95 min, PG-13, [Comedy] [Chris Rock] [28 Mar 2003]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 54%, Rotten Tomatoes: 30%, Metacritic: 44%, External Reviews
Awards: 10 nominations.
Actors: Bernie Mac, Chris Rock, Dylan Baker, Lynn Whitfield, Nick Searcy
Writer: Chris Rock, Ali LeRoi
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Plot: One candidate for the presidency dies in an accident a couple of weeks before the election. Meanwhile the alderman Mays Gilliam becomes a hero when he rescues a woman and her cat from an old house that would blow up. However his fiancee Kim does not pay his bills and dumps him, and Gilliam loses everything including his fancy car. When Senator Bill Arnot sees the news on television, he plots a scheme with the party advisors Martin Geller and Debra Lassiter to invite Mays to be the party nominee and lose the election for the other candidate, Vice-President Brian Lewis. Four years later, he would be the candidate and would have the chance of winning the election. Mays has a terrible beginning of campaign but when his older brother Mitch Gilliam meets him in Chicago, he advises Mays to be himself. Will he have the chance to be the first African American President of the USA?
Rotten Tomatoes: Mays Gilliam, a Washington D.C. neighborhood Alderman, is about to be redlined out of his job. But after the untimely death of the party frontrunner, Gilliam is plucked from obscurity, and thrust into the limelight as his party's nominee--for President of the United States. The players in Gilliam's life include: Mitch Gilliam, his unsophisticated older brother who becomes his running mate; Kim, his ex-girlfriend who had once dumped him, but who now has a sudden change of heart as she sees a chance at becoming First Lady; Martin Geller, his campaign manager; Lisa Clark, the woman who truly believes in Gilliam; and Debra Lassiter, the woman who doesn't have faith in his candidacy, and is serving as his reluctant advisor.
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