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review by from Bedfordshire, England
Nothing like it has ever been on earth before 11 July 2004
review by Kid from LONDON
One of the greats 19 April 2010
Bill Duke - filmography
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Not Easily Broken
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Maeve Quinlan, Cannon Jay, Kevin Hart
Director: Bill Duke
Certificate: 
Faith, family ties, and marital fidelity are all put to the test in NOT EASILY BROKEN, a thoughtful African-American domestic drama based on the novel by mega-pastor T.D. Jakes. As the film opens, Dave Johnson (Morris Chestnut) sets the story to date: his marriage to Clarice (Taraji P. Henson), his ..read more »
 
69%
from 783 members
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Deepak Chopra - The Seven Spiritual Laws...
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Olivia Newton-John, Bill Duke
Certificate: 
Author Deepak Chopra explores more of the mind-body-spirit collection in THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS, based on his bestselling book. Through this philosophy, Chopra offers insight into attaining one's goals and enjoying life to the fullest. Olivia Newton-John (GREASE) tells her story of ..read more »
65%
from 202 members
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Cover
(2007)
Starring: Vivica A. Fox, Louis Gossett Jr., Christopher Michael Holley
Director: Bill Duke
Certificate: 
When a man is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of 15 years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith keeps the family alive as a deadly disease threatens to destroy all that ..read more »
67%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Yellow
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Bill Duke, Roselyn Sanchez, D.B. Sweeney
Director: Alfredo De Villa
Certificate: 
Roselyn Sanchez and D.B. Sweeney star in this romantic drama about a young dancer who travels from her native Puerto Rico to the Big Apple in search of a new life after the death of her crippled father, once a great ballet star in New York City. Upon her arrival in New York, with no job and nowhere ..read more »
50%
from 395 members
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National Security - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Eric Roberts
Director: Dennis Dugan
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Martin Lawrence stars in this action comedy directed by Dennis Dugan (HAPPY GILMORE). The film concerns an unlikely partnership that forms between two LAPD rejects. Hank (Steve Zahn) is a straightlaced officer who is fired and imprisoned after supposedly brutalizing an innocent black man. It turns ..read more »
61%
from 553 members
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National Security
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Eric Roberts
Director: Dennis Dougan
Certificate:
Martin Lawrence stars in this action comedy directed by Dennis Dugan (HAPPY GILMORE). The film concerns an unlikely partnership that forms between two LAPD rejects. Hank (Steve Zahn) is a straightlaced officer who is fired and imprisoned after supposedly brutalizing an innocent black man. It turns ..read more »
59%
from 5,840 members
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Book of Love - The Definitive Reason Why...
(2002)
Starring: Loretta Devine, Denise Dowse, Bill Duke
Director: Jeff Byrd
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A therapy-driven comedy, BOOK OF LOVE follows three men who cruise through the 1990s Los Angeles dating scene and end up with broken hearts and shattered dreams. Spilling everything to their therapists, the men's revelations make for entertaining if (for some) uncomfortably familiar viewing.
24%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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Exit Wounds
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Steven Seagal, DMX, Isaiah Washington
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Detroit cop Orin Byrd (Steven Seagal) plays by his own rules. He knows what's right and what's wrong, and like Clint Eastwood's Harry Callahan, he doesn't mind leaving a little destruction in his wake as long as he gets the job done. But after saving the vice president from a militia group in a ..read more »
62%
from 4,215 members
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Fever
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Henry Thomas, David O'Hara, Teri Hatcher
Director: Alex Winter, Alex Winter
Certificate:
Alex Winter's FEVER tells the moody, haunting story of an urban-dwelling twenty-something who begins to show signs of physical and mental deterioration when faced with the suffocating pressure of living alone in New York City. Nick Parker (Henry Thomas), a struggling artist, pays the bills by ..read more »
42%
from 118 members
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Payback
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Mel Gibson, James Coburn, Gregg Henry
Director: Brian Helgeland
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Mel Gibson plays Porter, a ruthless criminal, who is gunned down by his wife and friend after they rob an Oriental gang. When Porter survives the attack, he makes it his mission to exact revenge on his friend, who has used the robbery money to buy his way into a powerful syndicate. Added to the mix ..read more »
67%
from 13,450 members
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Payback - Blu-ray
(1998)
Starring: Mel Gibson, James Coburn, Gregg Henry
Director: Brian Helgeland
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Mel Gibson plays Porter, a ruthless criminal, who is gunned down by his wife and friend after they rob an Oriental gang. When Porter survives the attack, he makes it his mission to exact revenge on his friend, who has used the robbery money to buy his way into a powerful syndicate. Added to the mix ..read more »
69%
from 1,070 member
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Hoodlum
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Andy Garcia
Director: Bill Duke
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Bill Duke's HOODLUM, with its rich visuals, brutal violence, and moral probing, pays homage to THE GODFATHER and other classic gangster films while exploring the nature of black empowerment as it relates to criminality. The film is Duke's second collaboration with Laurence Fishburne, and as with ..read more »
58%
from 602 members
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Sister Act 2 - Back In The Habit
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, James Coburn, Kathy Najimy
Director: Bill Duke
Certificate: 
SISTER ACT 2: BACK IN THE HABIT is the sequel to the surprise smash hit SISTER ACT. Whoopi Goldberg returns as Deloris Van Cartier, who, at the film's opening, has become a successful Vegas headliner, belting out undeniably cheesy medleys of R? hits. The nuns she shielded her identity from in the ..read more »
67%
from 6,633 members
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Deep Cover
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Laurence Fishburne, Clarence Williams
Director: Bill Duke
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Made during the black film boom that followed the success of BOYZ N THE HOOD, DEEP COVER is that rare and beautiful thing--a genuinely smart action movie. Screenwriters Michael Tolkin (THE PLAYER) and Henry Bean have written a clever but gritty, hard-hitting script, and director Bill Duke (A RAGE ..read more »
67%
from 2,424 members
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A Rage In Harlem
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Robin Givens, Danny Glover, Forest Whitaker
Director: Bill Duke
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When the sultry Imabelle arrives from Mississippi with a chest full of stolen gold she attracts a lot of attention from the local crooks, including Slim, the meanest and the deadliest of them all. The streets of Harlem will never be the same again.
57%
from 68 members
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Bird On A Wire
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, David Carradine
Director: John Badham
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Rick Jarmin is in deep trouble. An old flame has recognised him, even though he is part of the FBI witness-relocation programme. And the man he put behind bars is out to get him....
62%
from 4,701 members
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Predator
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Kevin Peter Hall, Carl Weathers, Sonny Landham
Director: John McTiernan
Certificate:
Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has a code of honour which he will not violate, even when his life depends on it. Paradoxically, his code of honour gives him the backbone to survive as a military special forces operative when he is sent on a covert mission to rescue another group which was sent in to ..read more »
72%
from 34,961 members
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Predator - Blu-ray
(1987)
Starring: Kevin Peter Hall, Carl Weathers, Sonny Landham
Director: John McTiernan
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In the remote jungle of a Central American country, an elite group of commandos led by Major Dutch Schaeffer (Arnold Schwarzenegger), embarks on a CIA mission to clear out a guerrilla stronghold and rescue the remaining hostages. However, the hunters become the hunted when a highly intelligent, ..read more »
81%
from 3,249 members
Not currently released
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Maximum Security
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Robert Desiderio, Jean Smart, Geoffrey Lewis
Director: Bill Duke
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The tale of a convict in one of America's toughest penitentiaries who, after three years of his sentence, has been stripped of his dignity and his rights. When he is recommended for parole his nightmares change to dreams of freedom... until his parole is rejected...
37%
from 26 members
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Car Wash
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: The Pointer Sisters, Bill Duke, Antonio Fargas
Director: Michael Schultz
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Director Michael Schultz follows up his critically acclaimed and commercially successful COOLEY HIGH with this hilarious day-in-the-life tale set in modern day Los Angeles. At Sully Boyar's car wash, a juvenile, motley crew of city dwellers "work their fingers to the bone" waiting on the eccentric ..read more »
60%
from 598 members
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Bill Duke facts
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...Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Duke, Elpidia Carrillo, Jesse Ventura, R.G. Armstrong, Kevin Peter Hall, Carl Weathers, Sonny Landham
Directed by: John McTierna...
