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Parton and Latifah to make a Joyful Noise in musical -
24 August 2010
-Queen of country Dolly Parton is teaming up with Queen Latifah on the big screen - the pair will try to save a gospel choir from closure in new musical Joyful Noise.-
-The 64-year-old singer will make her movie comeback starring as a widow who takes over her late husb
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Latifah wants to direct sci-fi -
6 May 2010
-Rapper/actress Queen Latifah is searching for the perfect sci-fi project to make her directorial debut - because she's a secret Star Trek fan.-
-The star, real name Dana Owens, has carved out a career for herself in Hollywood starring in and producing movies like upco
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Latifah insists on living in all her films -
7 March 2010
-Queen Latifah has a no-death clause in her movie contract, which prevents directors from killing her characters off.-
-The rapper-turned-actress admits she insisted on the addition to her filming paperwork after characters she played lost their lives in Set It Off and
Queen Latifah - what members say
review by from BOSTON
31 August 2004
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The Bone Collector 24 August 2010
review by BH101 from Cambridge
Masterpiece of its type 11 December 2006
Queen Latifah - filmography
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Joyful Noise
(2012)
Starring: Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer
Director: Todd Graff
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The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now ..read more »
 
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from 1 member
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Valentine's Day
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel
Director: Garry Marshall
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Seen through the eyes of a multigenerational cast of characters, "Valentine's Day" threads its way through a variety of relationships - from first dates to long time commitments, from young crushes to old flames, and from perpetual singles to unrequited loves. To tell the interconnecting stories, ..read more »
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from 28,150 members
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Valentine's Day - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel
Director: Garry Marshall
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Veteran director Garry Marshall helms this ensemble comedy featuring multiple overlapping storylines set during a Valentine's Day in L.A. Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Shirley MacLaine, Ashton Kutcher, and Topher Grace topline the cast.
61%
from 4,952 members
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Just Wright
(2010)
Starring: Paula Patton, Queen Latifah, Pam Grier
Director: Sanaa Hamri
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A female physical therapist is drafted by an all-star basketball player to help him recover from a career-threatening injury. The two soon fall in love in what is a modern-day Cinderella story.
73%
from 82 members
Not available for rental
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What Happens In Vegas - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Queen Latifah, Ashton Kutcher, Dennis Farina
Director: Tom Vaughan
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Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher star as strangers who wake up a married couple after a crazy night in Las Vegas in director Tom Vaughn's (STARTER FOR 10) film. Joy (Diaz) is the type of woman who makes plans to make plans. She's expecting a marriage proposal, but her live-in boyfriend, Mason (Jason ..read more »
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from 4,256 members
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Mad Money
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Diane Keaton, Ted Danson, Katie Holmes
Director: Callie Khouri
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Watch now: £2.49
Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes, and Queen Latifah headline director Callie Khouri's (DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD) second feature film. Nina (Latifah) and Jackie (Holmes) are two of many employees with mundane jobs at the high-security Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. Their lives change ..read more »
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from 3,963 members
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What Happens in Vegas
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Cameron Diaz, Queen Latifah
Director: Tom Vaughan
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Set in Sin City, the story revolves around two people who discover they've gotten married following a night of debauchery, with one of them winning a huge jackpot after playing the other's quarter. The unhappy pair try to undermine each other and get their hands on the money--falling in love along ..read more »
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from 49,686 members
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Arctic Tale
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Queen Latifah
Director: Adam Ravetch, Sarah Robertson
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This heartbreaking documentary puts a face on the sad statistics of global warming--and though it's not a human face, it's the perhaps even more effective face of an adorable polar bear cub, Nanu, along with her mother, her brother, and her natural enemy, the equally heart-melting Seela the walrus. ..read more »
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from 1,705 member
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Hairspray - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Amanda Bynes
Director: Adam Shankman
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After finding success on Broadway, the hilarious John Waters 1988 classic comes to the big screen once again with this Adam Shankman remake featuring an star-studded cast led by newcomer Nicole Bronsky in the part originally played by Ricki Lake.
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from 1,803 member
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Life Support
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Queen Latifah
Director: Nelson George
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HBO Films presents Academy Award nominee Queen Latifah in a heartbreaking story of one woman's journey to the brink of self-destruction and despair, and her inspirational fight to regain her dignity and her family. Ana is an HIV-positive former drug addict from Brooklyn desperately struggling with ..read more »
64%
from 326 members
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Last Holiday
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Queen Latifah, L.L. Cool J., Timothy Hutton
Director: Wayne Wang
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Watch now: Unavailable
Latifah stars as Georgia Byrd, a reserved plus-sized woman who lives a dreary, ordinary life in New Orleans, where she dreams of an elegant existence filled with fancy food, stylish clothing, and high-society parties. But she spends most of her evenings eating frozen dinners all alone, often ..read more »
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from 13,227 members
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Muppet's Wizard Of Oz
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: The Muppets, Queen Latifah, Quentin Tarantino
Director: Kirk R. Thatcher
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Everyone's favourite puppet comedians re-interpret a family classic in 'The Muppets Wizard Of Oz'. Pop star Ashanti stars as Dorothy, who lives in Kansas with her Auntie Em (Queen Latifah) while dreaming of success as a singer in Hollywood. Her wishes just might come true when a tornado whisks her ..read more »
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from 4,471 members
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Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
(2005)
Starring: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary
Director: Carlos Saldanha
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Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit Ice Age. This time around the Ice Age is over and is starting to melt, which will destroy their valley. So they must unite and warn everyone about the situation.
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from 50,478 members
Not currently released
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Taxi
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Jennifer Esposito
Director: Tim Story
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Roaring through the streets of New York, Belle Williams has earned a reputation as the City's fastest cabbie. With a spate of bank robberies committed by a group of female Brazilians occurring over New York City, Belle seems the best person to help cops catch the robbers...
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from 24,158 members
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Bringing Down The House
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy
Director: Adam Shankman
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Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is a divorced workaholic L.A. lawyer trying to forget his ex-wife (Jean Smart). Successful but lonely, Peter falls for an online chat buddy and is eager to meet his dream girl, until he meets the real woman behind the screen name and realises she is not at all like he'..read more »
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from 7,164 members
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Chicago
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones, Dominic West, Renee Zellweger
Director: Rob Marshall
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This Hollywood adaptation of the classic Broadway musical sparkles with glamour and reverberates with the energy of good, old-fashioned song and dance. As the film leaps into its first riveting act, Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), one half of the famous number she performs with her sister, ..read more »
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from 23,886 members
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Chicago - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones, Dominic West, Renee Zellweger
Director: Rob Marshall
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This Hollywood adaptation of the classic Broadway musical sparkles with glamour and reverberates with the energy of good, old-fashioned song and dance. As the film leaps into its first riveting act, Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), one half of the famous number she performs with her sister, ..read more »
66%
from 1,050 member
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Talking To Heaven
(2002)
Starring: Mary Steenburgen, Ted Danson, Diane Ladd
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
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James, a man who has been able to see the spirits of people who are dead becomes involved in a thirty year old murder investigation. The murder case involving seven boys is opened again by Detective Karen Condrin; James agrees to help her.
67%
from 238 members
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The Bone Collector
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah
Director: Phillip Noyce
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In Phillip Noyce's gripping thriller, Denzel Washington is Lincoln Rhyme, a decorated New York City police officer and successful author of crime novels. After a freak accident on the job, Rhyme is left paralyzed from the neck down (except for his index finger). Angelina Jolie is Amelia Donaghy, a ..read more »
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from 14,311 members
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Living Out Loud
(1998)
Starring: Holly Hunter, Danny De Vito, Queen Latifah
Director: Richard LaGravenese
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A touching drama about a relationship that forms between a recently divorced nurse (Hunter) and her building's elevator operator (Devito). Queen Latifah sparks the film every time she makes an appearance. Good, solid filmmaking that relies on characters and dialogue, not special effects, to make ..read more »
53%
from 436 members
Not currently released
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Sphere
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Barry Levinson
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When psychologist Norman Goodman (Dustin Hoffman) wrote a report for the government on how to deal with extraterrestrial life forces, he didn't expect his recommendations to be used. Now that a secret government agency is investigating what may be an alien spaceship that has been discovered ..read more »
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from 8,085 members
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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 »
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from 591 members
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Set It Off
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox
Director: F. Gary Gray
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After a lifetime of being exploited by unscrupulous employers, pushed around by sleazy boyfriends, persecuted by the police, and unable to escape from the undertow of ghetto life by socially approved means, a quartet of Angelina women arm themselves to the teeth and bust up banks in this ..read more »
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from 1,959 member
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Kung Faux - Vol. 1
on DVD
Starring: Queen Latifah, De La Soul, Prince Paul
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The Tommyboy label is one of the oldest, most established, and respected hip-hop labels around. KUNG FAUX see's some of the labels greatest MC's taking the mic and overdubbing some of their favorite kung fu movies, with spectacular results! Originally shown on Comedy Central and Much Music, the MC'..read more »
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from 59 members
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Queen Latifah facts
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... to rob a bank, but not just one. The acting from the likes of Jade Pinkett and Queen Latifah leave you wanting more. In parts of the film is fun but in other quite sad as f...
