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  • Forest Whitaker rules out Barack Obama role - 9 November 2012
    -Oscar winner Forest Whitaker has ruled out ever playing Barack Obama in a movie biopic of the President.-Whitaker wowed cinema-goers and picked up a Best Actor Academy Award for his intense performance as former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in 2006 film The Last King of Sc


  • Whitaker and Winfrey to play husband and wife? - 7 March 2012
    -Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey are in talks to star as husband and wife in Precious director Lee Daniels' new movie.-The filmmaker has written a new screenplay called The Butler, about black staffer Eugene Allen who served in the White House for 34 years


  • Whitaker honoured for lengthy career - 9 December 2011
    -Forest Whitaker was the toast of the Marrakech International Film Festival on Wednesday (07Dec11) as he was honoured for his lengthy career.-The 50 year old has landed several accolades over the years, including Best Actor prizes at the Oscars, Golden Globes and the BAF

Forest Whitaker - what members say


  • Phenomenon
  • Phenomenon review by A customer from GREAT MISSENDEN
    Rated - 0.0 stars Phenomenal score 28 November 2009
    .... Travolta is at his likeable best, Duvall is convincing as his fatherly quack, Forest Whitaker and Kyra Sedgwick give good perfomances in support. Thomas Newman score complet...   Read customer review
  • Platoon
  • Platoon review by A customer from Cornwall
    Rated - 5.0 stars Welcome to the 'Nam 20 September 2003
    ...way imaginable. Familiar faces like John C. McGinley, Keith David, Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker, Kevin Dillon and Tony Todd are all perfect in limited, but important screen ti...   Read customer review

Forest Whitaker - filmography


  • Black Nativity (2013)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Angela Bassett,  Jennifer Hudson
    Director: Kasi Lemmons
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A street-wise teen from Baltimore, raised by a single mother, travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives and embarks on a surprising and inspirational journey.
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  • Out of the Furnace (2013)
    Starring: Christian Bale,  Zoe Saldana,  Forest Whitaker
    Director: Scott Cooper
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.
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  • Crossfire on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  50 Cent,  Dana Delany
    Director: Jessy Terrero
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Crime thriller starring 50 Cent, Robert De Niro and Forest Whitaker. After a NYPD officer is killed, his son, Malo (50 Cent), joins the forces and finds himself working for Captain Sarcone (De Niro), who was his father's partner. Malo, however, discovers that Sarcone and his right-hand man, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 201 members
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  • A Dark Truth on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Andy Garcia,  Eva Longoria,  Forest Whitaker
    Director: Damian Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Action movie starring Andy Garcia, Eva Longoria and Forest Whitaker in which a group of activists attempt to expose the crimes of a large corporation in South America. As a former CIA operative turned radio presenter on a political talk show, Jack Begosian (Garcia) seems the ideal figure to bring ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 56 members
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  • Catch .44 - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Bruce Willis,  Shea Whigham
    Director: Aaron Harvey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Action thriller starring Malin Akerman and Bruce Willis. Tes (Akerman), Kara (Nikki Reed) and Dawn (Deborah Ann Woll) are three women with guns who are working for crime boss Mel (Willis). When they find themselves the victims in a double-crossing drug deal that turns out to be more of a set-up ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 1,289 member
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  • Catch .44 on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Bruce Willis,  Shea Whigham
    Director: Aaron Harvey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Action thriller starring Malin Akerman and Bruce Willis. Tes (Akerman), Kara (Nikki Reed) and Dawn (Deborah Ann Woll) are three women with guns who are working for crime boss Mel (Willis). When they find themselves the victims in a double-crossing drug deal that turns out to be more of a set-up ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 1,999 member
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  • Repo Men on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Jude Law,  Forest Whitaker,  Alice Braga
    Director: Miguel Sapochnik
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    In the near-future, people can enhance their bodies, replacing any damaged organ with artificial replacements. There's one catch: it's expensive, and if you can't keep up with the payments your body parts will be repossessed by the 'Repo Men'... with painful and bloody results! Jude Law plays Remy,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6,455 members
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  • Repo Men - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Liza Lapira,  Liev Schreiber
    Director: Miguel Sapochnik
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Jude Law and Forest Whitaker star in this dystopian sci-fi action thriller based on a novel by Eric Garcia. Supplying sophisticated and hugely expensive artificial organs to those in need, multinational company 'The Union' has a virtual monopoly on life and death. Unfortunately, for those who can't ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 627 members
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  • Our Family Wedding (2010)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  America Ferrera,  Regina King
    Director: Rick Famuyiwa
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Lucia and Marcus learn the hard way that the path to saying "I do" can be rife with familial strife. When they return from college and suddenly announce their marriage plans, they discover that their competitive and egotistical fathers can wreak serious havoc on their special day. With insults ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 75 members
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  • Hurricane Season on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Isaiah Washington,  Bow Wow
    Director: Tim Story
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Drama starring Forest Whitaker as a Louisiana basketball coach who inspires a team of students in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Al Collins (Whitaker) coaches basketball at John Ehret High School, across the river from New Orleans. Like all those closest to the devastating effects of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 407 members
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  • Powder Blue on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Jeffery A. Baker,  Sala Baker,  Soledad Campos
    Director: Timothy Linh Bui
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide. Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker and Eddie Redmayne lead a top-notch cast in this powerful thriller about an overwhelmed erotic dancer, a grieving husband who has lost ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,512 members
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  • Where the Wild Things Are - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Catherine O'Hara,  Forest Whitaker,  Paul Dano
    Director: Spike Jonze
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    The story follows Max, a young boy who wears his wolf suit, behaves badly and is sent to bed without any supper. Once there, he escapes to a forest where he is joined by the monstrous-yet-cuddly wild things for their wild rumpus. Adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 8,020 members
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  • The Air I Breathe on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Sarah Michelle Gellar,  Brendan Fraser
    Director: Jieho Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Four short fables in which characters collide with fate--and each other--comprise "The Air I Breathe," an ambitious and absorbing drama from debuting director/writer Jieho Lee. Boasting a brilliant ensemble cast, the film is inspired by a Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four key emotions-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 7,380 members
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  • Vantage Point - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Edgar Ramirez,  Forest Whitaker,  Matthew Fox
    Director: Pete Travis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tense, political thriller that follows an assassination attempt on the president of the United States. While visiting Spain to attend a global summit on terrorism, the American president is shot, causing instant panic and confusion in the watching crowd. Amongst them, tourist Howard Lewis (Forest ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 9,829 members
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  • The Great Debaters on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Nate Parker,  Jurnee Smollett
    Director: Denzel Washington
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 1,813 member
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  • Ripple Effect on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Virginia Madsen,  Minnie Driver
    Director: Philippe Caland
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Hip clothing designer Amer Atrash is perpetually on the brink of success. Now, with time running out, he is undergoing a crisis in his business and in his marriage. Soul searching, he attributes his misfortune to bad karma from a wrongdoing committed 15 years ago and sets out to right this wrong, ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 177 members
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  • The Marsh on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Justin Louis,  William Cuddy
    Director: Jordan Barker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Horror starring Forest Whitaker. A young, beautiful but stressed-out children's writer (Gabrielle Anwar) seeks out a holiday in the country but becomes the lead character in a supernatural mystery she must solve to save her life.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 2,451 members
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  • Even Money (2006)
    Starring: Kim Basinger,  Forest Whitaker,  Nick Cannon
    Director: Mark Rydell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Gambling: Carolyn, a novelist, is losing her family's savings at the slots; she's befriended by a close-up magician who dreams of making it big. A murdered bookie has the cops focused on Victor, who fronts for the mysterious, never-seen Ivan. Augie and Murph, two other bookies ply their partnership,..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 4 members
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  • Mary (2005)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Forest Whitaker,  Matthew Modine
    Director: Abel Ferrara
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An independent director casts himself as Jesus Christ in his film. The actress playing Mary Magdalene travels alone to Jerusalem after the shoot to continue her spiritual journey inspired by her role. A year later in Manhattan, a superstar network journalist investigates the life and times of Jesus ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 55% from 12 members
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  • First Daughter on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Katie Holmes,  Margaret Colin,  Amerie Rogers
    Director: Forest Whitaker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Romantic comedy starring Katie Holmes as a seemingly ordinary college freshman with one important exception - her father (Michael Keaton) is the President of the United States. When Samantha (Holmes) begins her studies at Redmond University, she asks her father to remove the two Secret Service ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 16,969 members
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  • Phone Booth - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Katie Holmes,  Richard T. Jones
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    When philandering publicist Stuart Sheppard (Colin Farrell) answers a ringing public phone on a New York street he doesn't realise he is about to put his life on the line. A voice on the other end of the phone tells him that if he hangs up he will be shot on the spot, and although Stu first thinks ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,564 members
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  • Phone Booth (2003)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Katie Holmes,  Richard T. Jones
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    When philandering publicist Stuart Sheppard (Colin Farrell) answers a ringing public phone on a New York street he doesn't realise he is about to put his life on the line. A voice on the other end of the phone tells him that if he hangs up he will be shot on the spot, and although Stu first thinks ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 40,984 members
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  • Panic Room on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Kristen Stewart,  Forest Whitaker,  Patrick Bauchau
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her teenage daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) move into a luxury Manhattan townhouse they have no plans to use the ultra-secure 'panic room' installed by the previous occupant. But on their first night in their new home, three burglars break-in with plans to steal ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 18,678 members
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  • The Fourth Angel (2001)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Jeremy Irons,  Jason Priestley
    Director: John Irvin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jack Elgin (Jeremy Irons) is a magazine editor living in London with his wife and three children. Unable to go on the family trip to India, Jack's life is shattered when the plane carrying his wife and children is hijacked by terrorists and they end up dead as a result. When those responsible ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 810 members
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  • 4 Dogs Playing Poker on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Olivia Williams,  George Lazenby
    Director: Paul Rachman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Best friends Julian (Balthazar Getty), Audrey (Olivia Williams), Holly (Stacy Edwards), and Kevin (Daniel London) have landed themselves in trouble. They've stolen a valuable statue but botched its delivery to the dealer, who demands that they pay him $1 million pounds compensation by the end of ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 66 members
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  • Hope Floats on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Sandra Bullock,  Mae Whitman,  Gena Rowlands
    Director: Forest Whitaker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Birdee's (Sandra Bullock) seemingly perfect marriage is shattered when her husband admits to infidelity on national TV. Returning to her hometown with her young daughter to lick her wounds, Birdee slowly begins to regain faith in her fellow man and construct a new life.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 7,118 members
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  • Body Count on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Michael Corrigan,  Ving Rhames
    Director: Robert Patton Spruill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Newly released from prison, Pike (David Caruso) allows himself to be talked into a raid on a Boston art gallery by Crane (Forest Whitaker), who promises that no guns will actually be involved. However, guns are very much involved, with the result that Crane is killed. The rest of the gang soon ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 208 members
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  • Rebound - The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' ... (1996)
    Starring: Don Cheadle,  James Earl Jones,  Michael Beach
    Director: Eriq La Salle
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 8 members
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  • Phenomenon on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  John Travolta,  Jeffrey DeMunn
    Director: Jon Turteltaub
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    George Malley (John Travolta) is an easy-going mechanic who is in love with Lace Pennamin (Kyra Sedgwick), a new arrival in town who wants nothing to do with relationships. On George's 37th birthday, he sees a strange light and is knocked unconscious. When he awakes, he finds that he has enhanced ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 5,911 members
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  • Species on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Ben Kingsley,  Michael Madsen
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In 1974 scientists used the world's largest radio telescope to send messages into outer space. Twenty years later they receive a message giving instructions on how to mix human and alien DNA to form 'Sil', a new species. The scientists create 'Sil' - in the shape of a beautiful young woman (Natasha ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 6,711 members
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  • Waiting To Exhale on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Gregory Hines,  Lela Rochon,  Loretta Devine
    Director: Forest Whitaker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Four women use their close-knit friendship to withstand the tests their lives bring them and help them in their search for true love. Savannah and Robin are successful businesswomen but their love lives have suffered. Bernadine thought she had found the real thing until her husband left her for ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,498 member
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  • Species - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Ben Kingsley,  Michael Madsen
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In 1974 scientists used the world's largest radio telescope to send messages into outer space. Twenty years later they receive a message giving instructions on how to mix human and alien DNA to form 'Sil', a new species. The scientists create 'Sil' - in the shape of a beautiful young woman (Natasha ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,249 member
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  • Smoke on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Harvey Keitel,  William Hurt
    Director: Wayne Wang
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A Brooklyn cigar shop is the setting for this drama from director Wayne Wang that interweaves the stories of several characters that have fractured family relationships in common. Harvey Keitel is Auggie Wren, poetic owner of the Brooklyn Cigar Company, a store that he considers the center of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,242 members
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  • Smoke - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Harvey Keitel,  William Hurt
    Director: Wayne Wang
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    During an extended period of writer's block, Brooklyn-based author Paul Benjamin (William Hurt) begins to spend more and more time hanging about his local cigar store. Its owner, Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel), has more than a few tales of his own, as does a young man, Rashid (Harold Perrineau), who ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 212 members
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  • Lush Life on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Don Cheadle,  Kathy Baker
    Director: Michael Elias
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jeff Goldblum and Forest Whitaker star as, respectively, jazz sax and trumpet players, who live life to the max. Behind the party-going façade, however, Goldblum's marriage is crumbling, and Whitaker is terminally ill. The two decide to throw a huge farewell party, with great music, fantastic food, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 68 members
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  • Blown Away on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Tommy Lee Jones,  Jeff Bridges
    Director: Stephen Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Insane terrorist Ryan Gaerity (Tommy Lee Jones) causes a number of explosions in Boston, but continually evades the clutches of the city's elite bomb squad, led by Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges). Dove gradually realises that the attacks are motivated by his own past confrontations with the terrorist, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,100 members
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  • The Enemy Within on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Dana Delany,  Sam Waterston
    Director: Jonathan Darby
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Forest Whitaker stars as a marine officer who stumbles across a plot to overthrow the American President by embittered Chief of Staff, General Lloyd. According to an obscure clause in the consititution, the President can be deposed if the entire cabinet signs a letter questioning his mental health. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 87 members
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  • Body Snatchers on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Billy Wirth,  Forest Whitaker,  Meg Tilly
    Director: Abel Ferrara
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Sci-fi horror directed by Abel Ferrara. Teenage girl Marty Malone (Gabrielle Anwar) moves with her father, stepmother and stepbrother to a military base where her father has a new job investigating environmental hazards. Based on Jack Finney's classic sci-fi novel 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers', ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,159 member
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  • Last Light on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Clancy Brown,  Amanda Plummer
    Director: Kiefer Sutherland
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Prison drama directed by and starring Kiefer Sutherland as Denver Bayliss, a persistent re-offender who has been locked up for two murders - one of his victims was a prison guard. The authorities have thrown away the key, but this is not enough punishment for the brutal cell block lieutenant who ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 349 members
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  • The Crying Game - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Stephen Rea,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Fergus (Stephen Rea), an IRA member, is standing guard over a British soldier (Forest Whitaker) who the IRA have taken hostage. Against the orders of his superiors, he engages in conversation with the man, who tells him about his lover Dil (Jaye Davidson), who lives in London. Moved by his captive'..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 51 members
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  • The Crying Game on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Stephen Rea,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In this successful psychological thriller, a reluctant agent of the Irish Republican Army discovers that some people just aren't who you expect them to be. Fergus (Stephen Rea) is an IRA volunteer who, despite personal misgivings, takes part in the kidnapping of a black British soldier, Jody (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 13,558 members
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  • Article 99 on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  John McGinley,  Keith David
    Director: Howard Deutch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Howard Deutch's satire is similar to that of the M.A.S.H series. Doctors Peter Morgan (Kiefer Sutherland) and Richard Sturgess (Ray Liotta) work in a Kansas City Hospital treating US Army veteran patients in the face of administrative adversity. Battling against red tape and tight-fisted attitudes (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 54% from 214 members
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  • A Rage In Harlem on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Gregory Hines,  Danny Glover,  Forest Whitaker
    Director: Bill Duke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A naive undertaker's assistant becomes involved with dirty dealing con-men in 1954 Harlem, with the express aim of securing the attentions of a gangster's mistress. Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines and Robin Givens star.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 88 members
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  • Downtown on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Joe Pantoliano,  Anthony Edwards
    Director: Richard Benjamin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Melodrama, action and comedy meet in this tale about a white Philadelphia cop who finds himself transferred to a rundown neighbourhood, and is partnered with a solitary and sullen black officer. Alex Kearney (Anthony Edwards) does things strictly by the book, but when his best friend is murdered he ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 133 members
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  • Johnny Handsome on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Morgan Freeman,  Lance Henriksen
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Severely-deformed petty criminal Johnny Handsome (Mickey Rourke) is double-crossed in a robbery and left to take the rap on his own. He is stabbed in jail and sent to hospital, where a prison doctor decides that plastic surgery and a fresh start will lead Johnny on the path to reform. However, when ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 444 members
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  • Bird on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Diane Venora,  Michael Zelniker
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Forest Whitaker stars as the brilliant jazz saxophonist Charlie Bird Parker in this elegiac biopic. Director Clint Eastwood pays full homage to Parker's musical genius, but also devotes ample time to the musician's twin demons--drugs and alcohol-which accelerated his death at the age of 34. In his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,162 member
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  • Good Morning, Vietnam on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Tung Thanh Tran,  Forest Whitaker,  Robert Wuhl
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    DJ Adrian Cronauer (an Oscar-nominated Robin Williams) causes uproar when he arrives in war-torn 1965 Saigon to take over the early morning radio show. His irreverent humour soon offends the top brass, in the form of Lt. Steven Hauk (Bruno Kirby), but Cronauer becomes a hit with the GIs. Meanwhile, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 13,082 members
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  • Stakeout on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Richard Dreyfuss,  Aidan Quinn
    Director: John Badham
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Chris Lecce (Richard Dreyfuss) and Bill Reimers (Emilio Estevez) are mismatched cops who are given the task of keeping a beautiful woman's (Madeleine Stowe) house under surveillance, as her ex-boyfriend is a thug they are trying to catch. The case becomes more complicated when Lecce becomes ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 3,807 members
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  • Platoon on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Charlie Sheen,  Willem Dafoe,  Tom Berenger
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oliver Stone's award winning film tells the story of a young innocent 19-year-old soldier, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen), who is thrown headfirst into the bloody Vietnam conflict. He is forced to fight not only the Viet Cong, but also his own fears and intense anger. As a result of not being able to ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 74% from 35,771 members
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  • Platoon - Blu-ray (1986)
    Starring: Charlie Sheen,  Willem Dafoe,  Tom Berenger
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oliver Stone's award winning film tells the story of a young innocent 19-year-old soldier, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen), who is thrown headfirst into the bloody Vietnam conflict. He is forced to fight not only the Viet Cong, but also his own fears and intense anger. As a result of not being able to ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 183 members
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Forest Whitaker facts

5 most recent films

Black Nativity - 3 stars
The Last Stand - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Pawn - 3.0 stars
The Last Stand - 3.5 stars
Pawn - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Platoon - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Last King Of Scotland - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Last King Of Scotland - 4.0 stars
The Crying Game - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Great Debaters - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Black Nativity - 3 stars
Out of the Furnace - 3 stars
Even Money - 2.5 stars
Green Dragon - 2.5 stars
My Own Love Song - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Beau Garrett - 27 times - show films
Janeane Garofalo - 26 times - show films
Michael Kelly - 26 times - show films
Kirsten Vangsness - 26 times - show films
Matt Ryan - 26 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Fincher - 5 times - show films
Timothy Linh Bui - 4 times - show films
Shin Shimosawa - 4 times - show films
Roger Donaldson - 4 times - show films
Oliver Stone - 4 times - show films