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Ossie Davis
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Ossie Davis - what members say
review by from London
Elvis and JFK meet the Mummy 16 October 2004
review by from Aylesbury,England
The Soul Collector 16 November 2007
Ossie Davis - filmography
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Baadasssss!
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Nia Long, David Alan Grier, Mario Van Peebles
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Certificate: 
Melvin Van Peebles stunned the world for the first time, with his debut feature, "The Story of a Three Day Pass." Filmed in France and selected as the French entry in the San Francisco Film Festival, Melvin's film was awarded the top prize. Saying it was controversial would be an understatement. In ..read more »
 
58%
from 275 members
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Bubba Ho-Tep
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Heidi Marnhout, Ossie Davis, Bob Ivy
Director: Don Coscarelli
Certificate: 
Low budget cult comedy starring Bruce Campbell and directed by Don Coscarelli. In a Mud Creek retirement home, an aged Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) and a black man who thinks he's JFK (Ossie Davis) have to join forces to stop a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy from sucking the souls out of the ..read more »
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from 14,770 members
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Bubba Ho-Tep - Bonus Material
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce
Director: Don Coscarelli
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Includes the following special features:
-Joe R. Lansdale Reads From Bubba Ho-Tep.
-Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary By Don Coscarelli And Bruce Campbell.
-"The Making Of Bubba Ho-Tep"
-Featurette. "To Make A Mummy"
-Featurette. "Fit For A King"
-Featurette. "Rock Like An Egyptian"
-..read more »
66%
from 99 members
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Bubba Ho-Tep - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Heidi Marnhout, Ossie Davis, Bob Ivy
Director: Don Coscarelli
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Low budget cult comedy starring Bruce Campbell and directed by Don Coscarelli. In a Mud Creek retirement home, an aged Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) and a black man who thinks he's JFK (Ossie Davis) have to join forces to stop a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy from sucking the souls out of the ..read more »
66%
from 1,095 member
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Dinosaur
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Samuel E. Wright, Julianna Margulies
Director: Ralph Zondag, Eric Leighton
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In the late Cretaceous period of Earth's history, iguanodon Aladar (voiced by D.B. Sweeney) is separated from his own species while still inside his egg. He is taken in and brought up by lemurs Zini and Plio, but when this adoptive family is all by wiped out by a meteor shower, Aladar and his ..read more »
66%
from 6,502 members
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The Soul Collector
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Melissa Gilbert, Ossie Davis
Director: Michael Scott
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Zach is a soul collector - an angel of sorts who helps bring a persons spirit into the afterlife. He has now been chosen to experience life as a human. He makes his home on an old family run farm and discovers sensations, emotions and experiences he has never known before, from the feeling of rain ..read more »
56%
from 280 members
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Doctor Dolittle
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Pee-Wee Herman, Norm Macdonald, Ving Rhames
Director: Betty Thomas
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A skilled physician, Dr. John Dolittle has long suppressed a very special talent he possessed as a child: the ability to communicate with animals. Forgotten are his childhood memories of counsel with his four-legged friend until a near accident awakens his long dormant talents. Now owls, horses, ..read more »
58%
from 8,304 members
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I'm Not Rappaport
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, Martha Plimpton, Walter Matthau
Director: Herb Gardner
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Eighty-one-year-old Nat Moyer (Walter Matthau) is a fanciful philosopher and troublemaker. His companion Midge Carter (Ossie Davis) is the exact opposite, being realistic and down to earth. Together they deal with life's ups and downs, as they sit on a bench in New York's Central Park, taking on ..read more »
71%
from 40 members
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The Client
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: William H. Macy, William Sanderson, Kim Coates
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Third adaptation of lawyer-turned-novelist John Grisham's books. When young Mark and his brother sneak off to the woods for a smoke, they stumble upon a fat mob lawyer about to commit suicide, who tells Mark where a dead body is hidden. When his brother falls into a coma, Mark is questioned by a ..read more »
68%
from 5,333 members
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Stephen King's The Stand
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Adam Stor, Ossie Davis, Laura San Giacomo
Director: Mick Garris
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When a lab run by the government lets a deadly virus escape, the majority of the world's population is destroyed. Those who survived all recount having seen two figures in their dreams - a scary man or a mysterious old woman, representing the forces of good and evil. Now a final confrontation ..read more »
66%
from 6,818 members
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Grumpy Old Men
(1993)
Starring: Ann-Margret, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
Director: Donald Petrie, Donald M. Petrie
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Watch now: Unavailable
Academy Award-winners Lemmon and Matthau portray lifelong feuding neighbours with nothing better to do than make each day a hilarious game of revenge. But then voluptuous Ariel (Ann-Margret) moves in across the street and their dormant hormones reignite in an all-out competition to win her favour.
75%
from 687 members
Currently unavailable
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Gladiator
(1992)
Starring: Cara Buono, Jon Seda, James Marshall
Director: Rowdy Herrington
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College student Tommy Riley (James Marshall) is forced to move with his father to the seedy side of town after the father accumulates a lot of gambling debts. In order to pay their way, Tommy becomes involved in illegal backstreet boxing.
70%
from 1,068 member
Currently unavailable
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Jungle Fever
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee
Director: Spike Lee
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This critically acclaimed film from Spike Lee explores the provocative consequences of interracial relationships.
Wesley Snipes portrays Flipper Purify, a black architect who begins an affair with Angie Tucci (Annabella Sciorra), his working class Italian secretary. Their relationship causes them ..read more »
59%
from 2,254 members
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School Daze
(1988)
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito
Director: Spike Lee
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At this African American college, amid gala coronations, football, fraternities, parades, and parties, a group of buddies find themselves caught up in romance, relationship rituals, and rivalries during one outrageous homecoming weekend. The story follows two cousins who have opposing attitudes ..read more »
56%
from 236 members
Currently unavailable
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Wattstax
(1973)
Starring: Ossie Davis, Richard Pryor, Fred Berry
Director: Mel Stuart
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Originally released in 1973, WATTSTAX is a musical and cultural artifact that pays tribute to the Watts riots, which ravaged Los Angeles for six days beginning August 11, 1965. The film's main focus is the Watts Summer Festival's 1972 concert held at the Los Angeles Coliseum, featuring performances ..read more »
47%
from 7 members
Currently unavailable
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Cotton comes to Harlem
(1970)
Starring: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart
Director: Ossie Davis
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Ossie Davis made his directorial debut with this crime-actioner about two foolhardy Harlem detectives. Grave Digger Jones and his partner Coffin Ed Johnson are trying to find $90,000 hidden inside a bale of cotton somewhere in Harlem. They haven't got much time before the cops recover the cash. But ..read more »
57%
from 14 members
Currently unavailable
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The Scalphunters
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Nick Cravat
Director: Sydney Pollack
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A comic western following the exploits of Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster), an old fur trader who is hell bent on taking revenge on bountyhunters who have embezzled his trade from him. Along the trail, he runs into Joseph (Ossie Davis), a slave determined to win back his freedom.
63%
from 361 members
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...d really seems to be enjoying himself in probably his best performance to date. Ossie Davis gets a number of great lines as a black JFK and these two make an engaging team...
