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Ossie Davis
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Ossie Davis - what members say
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Elvis and JFK meet the Mummy 16 October 2004
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The Soul Collector 16 November 2007
Ossie Davis - filmography
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Bubba Ho-Tep
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce
Director: Don Coscarelli
Certificate: 
Don Coscarelli's BUBBA HO-TEP finds Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) alive but not so well, living in a small Texas nursing home. Although he's preoccupied with his ailments and his memories, the elderly Elvis befriends another resident, John F. Kennedy (Ossie Davis), when they both begin to suspect ..read more »
 
60%
from 14,416 members
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Bubba Ho-Tep - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce
Director: Don Coscarelli
Certificate:
Don Coscarelli's BUBBA HO-TEP finds Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) alive but not so well, living in a small Texas nursing home. Although he's preoccupied with his ailments and his memories, the elderly Elvis befriends another resident, John F. Kennedy (Ossie Davis), when they both begin to suspect ..read more »
66%
from 937 members
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Bubba Ho-Tep - Bonus Material
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce
Director: Don Coscarelli
Certificate:
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 »
65%
from 85 members
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Dinosaur
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Samuel E. Wright, Julianna Margulies
Director: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag
Certificate: 
With DINOSAUR, Disney breaks a new stride in the technological revolution of computer animation--combining computer-animated characters with digitally enhanced live-action landscapes. The effect is literally unbelievable and the clarity, realness, and definition of the pictures easily make the once ..read more »
66%
from 6,230 members
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Dinosaur - Blu-ray
(2000)
Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Samuel E. Wright, Julianna Margulies
Director: Eric Leighton
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With DINOSAUR, Disney breaks a new stride in the technological revolution of computer animation--combining computer-animated characters with digitally enhanced live-action landscapes. The effect is literally unbelievable and the clarity, realness, and definition of the pictures easily make the once ..read more »
64%
from 1,036 member
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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 »
55%
from 261 members
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Doctor Dolittle
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt
Director: Betty Thomas
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Three features. In 'Doctor Dolittle', a remake of the 1967 Richard Fleischer film of the same name, an animal doctor whose patients bark, squeal, and meow finds that he can suddenly understand his patients, which upsets the practice. Eddie Murphy updates the role as a San Francisco doctor who as a ..read more »
58%
from 8,082 members
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I'm Not Rappaport
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Ossie Davis, Walter Matthau, Craig T. Nelson
Director: Herb Gardner
Certificate: 
Nat Moyer (Walter Matthau) and Midge Carter (Ossie Davis) are a comically mismatched duo of geriatric New Yorkers, who observe the idiosyncrasies of modern urban life while seated on a bench in Central Park. When Midge, who also serves as the manager of Nat's apartment building, becomes threatened ..read more »
70%
from 31 members
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Stephen King's The Stand
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan
Director: Mick Garris
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Stephen King's own adaptation of his best-selling allegorical novel is the ultimate saga of good vs. evil. When a deadly man-made virus destroys 99 per cent of the Earth's population, those left alive are haunted by visions and dreams luring them into two camps--good or evil--and eventually to a ..read more »
67%
from 6,501 members
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The Client
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Joel Schumacher
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In this taut legal drama a trailer park kid witnesses the suicide of a mob lawyer and is pursued by authorities trying to find out if he knows anything. In an attempt to protect himself, the 11 year-old hires a feisty female attorney who takes up his case and develops a bond with him. Based on the ..read more »
68%
from 5,097 members
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Grumpy Old Men
(1993)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Ann-Margret
Director: Donald Petrie, Donald M. Petrie
Certificate:
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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.
73%
from 450 members
Currently unavailable
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Gladiator
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: James Marshall, Cuba Gooding Jr., Brian Dennehy
Director: Rowdy Herrington
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In Rowdy Herrington's GLADIATOR, Tommy (James Marshall) and Lincoln (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), two poor high school students on the brink of juvenile delinquency, have taken up boxing. Although it's a dangerous sport, fighting helps keep them off the street and out of violent gangs. It's also a way for ..read more »
70%
from 1,007 member
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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 2,172 members
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School Daze
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell
Director: Spike Lee
Certificate: 
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 »
55%
from 216 members
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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 »
55%
from 11 members
Currently unavailable
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The Scalphunters
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs this amiable comic Western in which fur trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) is returning from a successful expedition only to find himself ambushed by a small group of Indians. The Indians force Joe to trade his pelts for Joseph, an educated runaway slave, played brilliantly by ..read more »
64%
from 341 members
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Ossie Davis facts
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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...
