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Ving Rhames

Ving Rhames
Ving Rhames is an award winning actor born in New York in 1959. He started out acting on Broadway in 'The Winter Boys' in 1984 before appearing in various soap operas. He starred in 'ER' for 3 seasons, before being cast alonside Tom Cruise in 'Misson Impossible'.

Staring in movie 'Pulp Fiction' brought him to 'mainstream' attention and he was later awarded an Golden Globe in 1998 for best actor in a TV miniseries for his performance in HBO's Don King: Only in America.

You can find Ving in many movies including: Striptease (1996) Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Mission: Impossible II (2000), American Tragedy (2000), Lilo & Stitch (2002), Dawn Of The Dead (2004) and the Day Of The Dead (2008)





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Ving Rhames - news / articles


  • Rhames & Shue promote Piranha 3D in viral comedy skit - 27 August 2010
    -Ving Rhames and Elisabeth Shue have shot a hilarious new time-travelling ad for their disaster movie Piranha 3D, in which the actor receives an unlikely Oscar from his co-star for his role in the film.- -Pulp Fiction star Rhames accepts the honour, holding his Acade


  • Rhames avoids deep sea`after snorkeling scare - 16 August 2010
    -Movie tough guy Ving Rhames has been put off snorkeling for good after a close encounter with an unknown underwater creature.- -The Mission: Impossible star, who appears in new ocean horror Piranha 3D, reveals one trip to explore life under the waves in Queensland,

Ving Rhames - what members say


  • Con Air
  • Con Air review by from Hampshire
    Rated - 4.0 stars Exhilarates to suspension of disbelief 10 March 2004
    ...the audience and the three outstanding portraits aside from Malkovich come from Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi and Nicolas Cage whose character is a nice contrast and while he...   Read customer review
  • Mission: Impossible
  • Mission: Impossible review by DJM666 from Walsall, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Good action movie 8 May 2006
    ...fects, and has a good cast (including Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Beart, Ving Rhames, Jean Reno, Henry Czerny, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Emilio Esteve...   Read customer review
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Pulp Fiction review by from LEICESTER
    Rated - 5.0 stars 22 February 2004
    ...cent Vega (John Travolta) are two bit hitmen that work for a Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) a gangster that has his hands dirty illegal buisness. His wife is Mia Wallace...   Read customer review

Ving Rhames - filmography


  • Zombie Apocalypse (2011)
    Starring: Ving Rhames,  Taryn Manning,  Lesley-Ann Brandt
    Director: Mick Lyon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The desperate survivors of a devastating zombie plague race across the country months after the outbreak to seek sanctuary on the island of Catalina where it is rumoured to be safe.
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 10 members
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  • Piranha 3DD (2011)
    Starring: Katrina Bowden,  Paul Scheer,  Meagan Tandy
    Director: John Gulager
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Blood and boobs are on the menu in this follow-up to Alexandre Aja's self-aware horror comedy from the filmmakers of Feast. John Gulager directs from a script by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 33 members
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  • Piranha 3DD - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Katrina Bowden,  Paul Scheer,  Meagan Tandy
    Director: John Gulager
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Blood and boobs are on the menu in this follow-up to Alexandre Aja's self-aware horror comedy from the filmmakers of Feast. John Gulager directs from a script by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 7 members
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  • Death Race 2 (2010)
    Starring: Danny Trejo,  Sean Bean,  Ving Rhames
    Director: Roel Reiné,  Roel Reine
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Get ready for the drive of your life with Death Race 2, the adrenaline pumping, car crunching, action packed prequel to Death Race (2008), starring Luke Goss (Tekken, Hell Boy II: The Golden Army), Sean Bean (Lord Of The Rings, Red Riding) and Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible Trilogy, Piranha 3D). ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 94 members
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  • Death Race 2 - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Danny Trejo,  Sean Bean,  Ving Rhames
    Director: Roel Reiné
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Get ready for the drive of your life with Death Race 2, the adrenaline pumping, car crunching, action packed prequel to Death Race (2008), starring Luke Goss (Tekken, Hell Boy II: The Golden Army), Sean Bean (Lord Of The Rings, Red Riding) and Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible Trilogy, Piranha 3D). ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 67% from 36 members
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  • Operation Endgame on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Joe Anderson,  Emilie de Ravin,  Zach Galifianakis
    Director: Fouad Mikati
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A dry action-comedy about two teams of government assassins working out of a top-secret underground facility using code names from the Tarot deck. When our hero - The Fool - arrives for his first day at work to find that the boss has been killed under mysterious circumstances, he must find the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 695 members
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  • The Tournament - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Ian Somerhalder,  Robert Carlyle,  Ving Rhames
    Director: Scott Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The world's best assassins converge upon the streets of a small Scottish town to compete in a deadly tournament in which the last killer standing gets a million-dollar prize while wealthy thrill-seekers watch a live video stream and gamble on the outcome. Robert Carlyle (TRAINSPOTTING) stars as a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,488 member
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  • The Tournament on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Ian Somerhalder,  Robert Carlyle,  Ving Rhames
    Director: Scott Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Every seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receiving the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of Worlds No 1, which itself carries the legendary million dollar a bullet price tag.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 6,782 members
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  • Piranha - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Richard Dreyfuss,  Ving Rhames,  Elisabeth Shue
    Director: Alexandre Aja
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    SWITCHBLADE ROMANCE and HILLS HAVE EYES director Alexandre Aja pays homage to the films that made him fall in love with the horror genre by helming this comedic remake of director Joe Dante's 1978 JAWSs parody. Lake Victoria may look peaceful, but beneath the placid waters of this painterly lake ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 2,517 members
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  • Evil Angel on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Ving Rhames,  Ava Gaudet,  Bart Johnson
    Director: Richard Dutcher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Ving Rhames stars in director Richard Dutcher's updating of the Lillith myth. According to Hebrew Mythology, Adam's first wife Lillith was banished from the Garden of Eden by God after her husband decried her lack of submission. In the wake of her open defiance, Lillith was said to have become the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,215 member
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  • Surrogates - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Ving Rhames,  Rosamund Pike
    Director: Jonathan Mostow
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 10,690 members
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  • Wrath of Cain on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Ving Rhames,  Nipsey Hustle,  Gillie Da Kid
    Director: Ryan Combs
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Ving Rhames (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE) stars in this drama as Miles 'Cain' Skinner, a former crime overlord turned lifer. Skinner never had to confront his demons or attempt to change his ways until now. Having being diagnosed with terminal cancer, the felon sets about a plan to reach out and help alter ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 361 members
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  • Echelon Conspiracy (2009)
    Starring: Shane West,  Edward Burns,  Ving Rhames
    Director: Greg Marcks
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth--then make him the target of a deadly international plot. Dangerous security operatives chase the engineer across the globe, while a powerful government official pursues a mysterious agenda that threatens the stability ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 33 members
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  • Echelon Conspiracy - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Tamara Feldman,  Shane West,  Edward Burns
    Director: Greg Marcks
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth--then make him the target of a deadly international plot. Dangerous security operatives chase the engineer across the globe, while a powerful government official pursues a mysterious agenda that threatens the stability ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 10 members
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  • Surrogates on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Ving Rhames,  Rosamund Pike
    Director: Jonathan Mostow
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 30,869 members
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  • Give 'Em Hell Malone on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Ving Rhames,  Thomas Jane,  Elsa Pataky
    Director: Russell Mulcahy
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A legendary gunman discovers why sometimes the simplest-sounding missions can also be the most dangerous when he attempts to recover a briefcase containing 'the meaning of love' from a five-star hotel. Even the worst criminals tremble with fear upon hearing the name Malone (Thomas Jane). If only ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 576 members
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  • Phantom Punch on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Ving Rhames,  Stacey Dash,  Nicholas Turturro
    Director: Robert Townsend
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Ving Rhames stars as one of the greatest and most brutal heavyweight boxers of all time: Sonny Liston. Brought up on the wrong side of the tracks a young Liston found himself in jail and facing a life of crime until he was persuaded by the prison priest to take up boxing. A year later he was a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 268 members
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  • Broken Love (2008)
    Starring: Tom Sizemore,  Ving Rhames,  Saul Rubinek
    Director: Neil Coombs
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Beaten and tortured by his own sense of mediocrity, Max (Tom Sizemore) decides to take his life but first acquires the help of his friend bud, a struggling filmmaker, to document his last day on Earth...
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 3 members
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  • Day Of The Dead - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Mena Suvari,  Nick Cannon,  Ving Rhames
    Director: Steve Miner
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Nick Cannon, Mena Suvari and Ving Rhames star in this horror film based on the George A. Romero classic zombie film. A mysterious virus has infected the small town of Leadville, Colorado, and the military is brought in to enforce a quarantine and stop the spread of the disease. As people perish, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,367 member
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  • A Broken Life on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Tom Sizemore,  Corey Sevier,  Grace Kosaka
    Director: Neil Coombs
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Tom Sizemore (of Saving Private Ryan and Heat) delivers a powerhouse performance as Max Walker, an empty, bitter man who has decided to commit suicide. Instead of a leaving a note, he hires struggling young film student Bud (Corey Sevier) to document the last day of his life. As Bud and his camera ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 41 members
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  • Day Of The Dead on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Mena Suvari,  Nick Cannon,  Ving Rhames
    Director: Steve Miner
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Nick Cannon, Mena Suvari and Ving Rhames star in this horror film based on the George A. Romero classic zombie film. A mysterious virus has infected the small town of Leadville, Colorado, and the military is brought in to enforce a quarantine and stop the spread of the disease. As people perish, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 5,162 members
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  • Animal 2 on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Ving Rhames,  K.C. Collins,  Vicellous Reon Shannon
    Director: Ryan Combs
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    James "Animal" Allen (Ving Rhames), is serving a life sentence for murder at Folson Prison, taking the rap for his eldest son. After a brutal prison riot between the Mexicans and the Blacks, he is transferred to Susanville Prison, where he previously served 15 years. On the outside, Animal's son, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 815 members
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  • Idlewild on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Big Boi,  Andre 3000,  Macy Gray
    Director: Bryan Barber
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,431 member
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  • Animal on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ving Rhames,  Terrence Howard,  Jim Brown
    Director: David J. Burke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Animal is a violent gang member sentenced to prison, leaving his young son to grow up alone on the streets. While in prison, Animal meets an aging black revolutionary who changes the way Animal sees himself and his place in the world. When Animal returns home many years later, now a reformed man, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 6,362 members
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  • Back In The Day on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ja Rule,  Ving Rhames,  Tatyana M. Ali
    Director: James Hunter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Reggie (Ja Rule) finds life kicking him in the teeth when his father suddenly dies in a suspected murder. With a previous life of crime now long behind him, Reggie considers getting back in the game and calling on the talents of his former colleague and ex-jailbird J-Bone (Ving Rhames) to help ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 1,041 member
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  • Dawn Of The Dead on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Sarah Polley,  Ving Rhames,  Jake Weber
    Director: Zack Snyder
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A female nurse, Anna, and a black police officer, Kenneth, are caught in the middle of world-wide chaos as flesh-eating zombies begin to take over the world by attacking the living...
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 28,375 members
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  • Dark Blue on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Kurt Russell,  Brendan Gleeson,  Scott Speedman
    Director: Ron Shelton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set amidst the brutal L.A riots, Dark Blue tells the gritty story of crime and corruption within the Los Angeles Police Department. Kurt Russell stars as Sgt. Eldon Perry, a committed but crooked cop who will stop at nothing to rid the streets of crime. But when the old-blooded shootings and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 4,411 members
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  • Undisputed on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Ving Rhames,  Peter Falk,  Michael Rooker
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    UNDISPUTED tells the story of a champion boxer (Ving Rhames) who is sent to prison on rape charges. There, he goes up against the top boxer (Wesley Snipes) in the inner-prison competition.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,363 member
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  • Sin on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Gary Oldman,  Ving Rhames,  Gregg Henry
    Director: Michael Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Gary Oldman plays evil so well. Here he plays a sadistic maniac who has retired cop Eddie Burns (Rhames) hunting for him across Reno. Burns' sister has gone missing and an ingenious and wicked trail is leading him to Oldman. Is this an act of revenge by an old adversary
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 978 members
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  • Baby Boy on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Taraji P. Henson,  Tyrese Gibson,  Omar Gooding
    Director: John Singleton
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director John Singleton (BOYZ IN THE HOOD, SHAFT) revisits to South Central L.A. with BABY BOY. Former Calvin Klein model Tyrese Gibson stars as Jody, a smooth-talking but immature black male who has children from two different women. One of them, Yvette (Taraji P. Henson), wants him to be faithful ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,032 member
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  • Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Alec Baldwin,  Ming-Na Wen,  Peri Gilpin
    Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi (who also created the best-selling series of video games that inspired the film), the groundbreaking FINAL FANTASY, which stars a startlingly lifelike cast of animated characters, is the first photo-realistic computer-generated feature film ever made. In the year 2065,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 6,324 members
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  • Mission: Impossible 2 on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Dougray Scott,  Thandie Newton
    Director: John Woo
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This is the action-packed sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, which in turn was based on the popular 1960s television show of the same name. Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt, leader of the IMF team that is responsible for embarking on top secret, dangerous missions that will maintain world ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 30,354 members
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  • Mission: Impossible 2 - HD (2000)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Dougray Scott,  Thandie Newton
    Director: John Woo
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This is the action-packed sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, which in turn was based on the popular 1960s television show of the same name. Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt, leader of the IMF team that is responsible for embarking on top secret, dangerous missions that will maintain world ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 326 members
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  • Mission: Impossible 2 - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Dougray Scott,  Thandie Newton
    Director: John Woo
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This is the action-packed sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, which in turn was based on the popular 1960s television show of the same name. Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt, leader of the IMF team that is responsible for embarking on top secret, dangerous missions that will maintain world ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,247 members
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  • Holiday Heart on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ving Rhames,  Alfre Woodard,  Mykelti Williamson
    Director: Robert Townsend
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drama based on the Cheryl L. West stageplay. Holiday is a choirmaster during the day. At night he is a female impersonator. He becomes involved with a woman and her daughter who are trying to escape a life of drugs.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 126 members
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  • Entrapment on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Catherine Zeta Jones,  Maury Chaykin
    Director: Jon Amiel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Sparks fly as Zeta-Jones, an insurance agent, charms her way into doing business with Connery, an aging thief. In preparation for their latest heist, Connery has her suffer through a rigorous training camp. Promises begin to blur and dwindle as romance introduces itself into the picture, building ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 12,872 members
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  • Bringing Out the Dead on DVD (1999)
    Starring: John Goodman,  Ving Rhames,  Tom Sizemore
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Martin Scorsese exhilaratingly adapts Joe Connelly's novel about Frank (Nicolas Cage), a paramedic working among the filth and mental desolation of New York City's Hell's Kitchen in the early 1990s. Lately he has been haunted by the visions of a beautiful 18-year-old girl whom he was unable to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 5,222 members
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  • Out Of Sight - HD (1998)
    Starring: Dennis Farina,  Ving Rhames,  Don Cheadle
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on Elmore Leonard's famous crime novel, OUT OF SIGHT finds director Steven Soderbergh back in Hollywood after a brief return to the independent world with SCHIZOPOLIS and GRAY'S ANATOMY. A funny, hip, and vibrant action-drama, OUT OF SIGHT tells the story of the unlikely relationship that ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 378 members
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  • Body Count on DVD (1998)
    Starring: David Caruso,  Linda Fiorentino,  Forest Whitaker
    Director: Robert Patton Spruill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Pike is a man who always seems to get mixed up with the wrong people. After he is released from prison a friend persuades him to do one more hit, this time a no violence raid on an art gallery. Things don't go quite as planned...
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 198 members
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  • Out Of Sight on DVD (1998)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Jennifer Lopez,  Dennis Farina
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on Elmore Leonard's famous crime novel, OUT OF SIGHT finds director Steven Soderbergh back in Hollywood after a brief return to the independent world with SCHIZOPOLIS and GRAY'S ANATOMY. A funny, hip, and vibrant action-drama, OUT OF SIGHT tells the story of the unlikely relationship that ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 11,642 members
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  • Out Of Sight - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Jennifer Lopez,  Dennis Farina
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on Elmore Leonard's famous crime novel, OUT OF SIGHT finds director Steven Soderbergh back in Hollywood after a brief return to the independent world with SCHIZOPOLIS and GRAY'S ANATOMY. A funny, hip, and vibrant action-drama, OUT OF SIGHT tells the story of the unlikely relationship that ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 365 members
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  • Doctor Dolittle on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ving Rhames,  Eddie Murphy,  Ossie Davis
    Director: Betty Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 8,123 members
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  • Con Air on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  John Cusack,  John Malkovich
    Director: Simon West
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Former war hero Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is sentenced to eight years in prison when he accidentally kills a man in a barroom brawl while defending his pregnant wife. When his release comes through, he's eager to see the daughter he's never met. However, Poe's original flight is delayed, so he's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 32,920 members
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  • Con Air - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  John Cusack,  John Malkovich
    Director: Simon West
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Nothing makes good-guy non-recidivist offender Cameron Poe happier than the thought of returning to society, where his angelic wife and the equally angelic little girl he's never known are waiting. And nothing makes him angrier than the passel of psychopathic murderers and rapists aboard his prison ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 3,395 members
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  • Don King - Only in America (1997)
    Starring: Ving Rhames,  Vondie Curtis-Hall,  Jeremy Piven
    Director: John Herzfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Biography of fight promoter Don King follows his rise from a street goon convicted of strong arm tactics to a minor music promoter to pulling off his first major fight with Muhammed Ali for a charity. Ving Rhames' characterization gives a fully three dimensional person with warts and all, but ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3 members
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  • Mission: Impossible on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Randall Paul,  John McLaughlin,  Karel Dobry
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, leader of a crack squad of intelligence operatives, in this labyrinthine action-thriller based on the hit 1960s-'70s television series. When a dangerous mission in Prague goes inexplicably wrong, Hunt finds himself out in the cold. A mole has infiltrated the CIA, and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 39,049 members
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  • Dangerous Ground on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Ice Cube,  Elizabeth Hurley,  Ving Rhames
    Director: Darrell Roodt
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After 14 years in exile from his South African homeland, a former black freedom fighter (Ice Cube) returns to attend his father's funeral, only to find that drugs have taken over a large segment of his community--including his brother, whose indebtedness to an iron-fisted drug lord threatens his ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 386 members
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  • Striptease on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Armand Assante,  Ving Rhames,  Robert Patrick
    Director: Andrew Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    When a Miami mother loses her job as a secretary, her lowlife ex-husband is awarded custody of their young daughter. Taking a job as a stripper to raise enough money for a court appeal, she unwittingly attracts the obsessive and insistent attentions of a crazed, slavering U.S. Congressman. Adapted ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 2,499 members
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  • Mission: Impossible - HD (1996)
    Starring: Randall Paul,  John McLaughlin,  Karel Dobry
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, leader of a crack squad of intelligence operatives, in this labyrinthine action-thriller based on the hit 1960s-'70s television series. When a dangerous mission in Prague goes inexplicably wrong, Hunt finds himself out in the cold. A mole has infiltrated the CIA, and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 373 members
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  • Pulp Fiction on DVD (1994)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Christopher Walken,  Bruce Willis
    Director: Quentin Tarantino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster follow-up to RESERVOIR DOGS is a breathtaking tribute to old dime store novels about small time hoods and dangerous criminals. It features deftly woven plotlines, creating a mythic Los Angeles underworld of drug dealers, molls, affable hitmen, restaurant-robbing ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 103,271 members
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  • Dave on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Kevin Kline,  Sigourney Weaver,  Frank Langella
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A presidential look-alike finds himself in the oval office "filling in" for the president who has fallen ill. Lacking the political savvy of the real president, "Dave" proceeds to govern the country with a refreshingly straight-forward approach. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Original) Screenplay.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,895 members
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  • Casualties Of War on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Michael J. Fox,  Sean Penn,  Dan Harvey
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Casualties of War was based on a New Yorker article by Daniel Lang. This, in turn, was inspired by a true incident which illustrated the dehumanizing aspects of the Vietnam experience. Michael J. Fox plays Eriksson, a member of an American squadron stationed in the deepest jungles of Southeast Asia...read more »
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  • Casualties Of War - Blu-ray (1989)
    Starring: Michael J. Fox,  Sean Penn,  Dan Harvey
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After being denied the chance to go to a nearby village to visit a prostitute before starting a reconnaissance mission, a tough, embittered American sergeant (Sean Penn) involves the four men of his patrol in the kidnapping of a young Vietnamese woman. The impending gang rape and murder of the ..read more »
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Ving Rhames facts

5 most recent films

Zombie Apocalypse - 2.0 stars
The River Murders - 3.0 stars
Zombie Apocalypse - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Piranha 3DD - 2.5 stars
Piranha 3DD - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Pulp Fiction - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Pulp Fiction - 4.0 stars
Con Air - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Con Air - 3.5 stars
Mission: Impossible - HD - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Zombie Apocalypse - 2.0 stars
King Of The Avenue - 2.0 stars
A Broken Life - 2.0 stars
Broken Love - 2.0 stars
Zombie Apocalypse - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tom Cruise - 11 times - show films
Samuel L. Jackson - 6 times - show films
Bruce Willis - 6 times - show films
Tom Sizemore - 5 times - show films
Simon Pegg - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Brian De Palma - 6 times - show films
Michael Mann - 6 times - show films
Hironobu Sakaguchi - 6 times - show films
Abel Ferrara - 6 times - show films
Quentin Tarantino - 6 times - show films