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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
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Whitaker to expose Louis Armstrong's pot use in biopic -
8 March 2010
-Forest Whitaker is sure to shock fans of jazz crooner Louis Armstrong by focusing on 'Satchmo's' love of marijuana in his next movie.-
-The Crying Game star will star as Armstrong and direct the biopic next year (11), and he insists he won't be shying away from the most
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Forest Whitaker - filmography
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Repo Men - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Certificate: 
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 »
 
63%
from 118 members
Not available for rental
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Repo Men
(2010)
Starring: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Certificate:
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 »
64%
from 328 members
Not available for rental
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Our Family Wedding
(2010)
Starring: Forest Whitaker, America Ferrera, Regina King
Director: Rick Famuyiwa
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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 »
53%
from 56 members
Not available for rental
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Hurricane Season
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Bow Wow, Forest Whitaker, Isaiah Washington
Director: Tim Story
Certificate:
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Tim Story directs this sports drama based on real events, with Forest Whitaker starring as Al Collins, a high-school basketball coach who leads a ragtag team to the state finals just a year after the Katrina disaster. Robert Eisele (THE GREAT DEBATERS) provides the screenplay.
64%
from 59 members
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Powder Blue
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Jessica Biel, Jeffery A. Baker, Eddie Redmayne
Director: Timothy Linh Bui
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
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 »
56%
from 2,251 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: 
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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.
53%
from 7,288 members
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Where the Wild Things Are
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker, Paul Dano
Director: Spike Jonze
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
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.
55%
from 22,408 members
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Street Kings - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Jay Mohr, Forest Whitaker, Terry Crews
Director: David Ayer
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David Ayer, who wrote TRAINING DAY, gives us another unflinching look at disillusionment and questionable decision-making within the ranks of the LAPD. Ayer's second directorial effort tells the story of burnt-out Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves), a functioning alcoholic and undisciplined detective with ..read more »
67%
from 4,498 members
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The Air I Breathe
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Brendan Fraser
Director: Jieho Lee
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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 »
59%
from 7,064 members
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Vantage Point - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Matthew Fox, Sigourney Weaver, Forest Whitaker
Director: Pete Travis
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A presidential assassination attempt is told from multiple points of view in Pete Travis' directorial debut, VANTAGE POINT. U.S. president Ashton (William Hurt) is in Salamanca, Spain, to announce plans for a major global summit on terrorism. But as he stands behind the podium in front of an ..read more »
68%
from 9,217 members
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Street Kings
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Jay Mohr, Antonio 'King Tone' Fernandez, Forest Whitaker
Director: David Ayer, Jon Alpert
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David Ayer, who wrote TRAINING DAY, gives us another unflinching look at disillusionment and questionable decision-making within the ranks of the LAPD. Ayer's second directorial effort tells the story of burnt-out Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves), a functioning alcoholic and undisciplined detective with ..read more »
66%
from 17,214 members
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Vantage Point
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker
Director: Pete Travis
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An attempt on the life of the president reveals a much larger conspiracy in this thriller starring Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, and Forest Whitaker. VANTAGE POINT takes the point of view of five witnesses and shows them all to reveal the truth.
69%
from 61,877 members
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Ripple Effect
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Virginia Madsen, Minnie Driver
Director: Philippe Caland
Certificate:
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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 »
41%
from 142 members
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The Great Debaters
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Denzel Washington, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett
Director: Denzel Washington
Certificate:
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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.
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from 1,119 member
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Even Money
(2006)
Starring: Kim Basinger, Forest Whitaker, Nick Cannon
Director: Mark Rydell
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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 »
40%
from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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The Marsh
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Gabrielle Anwar, Justin Louis, Forest Whitaker
Director: Jordan Barker
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A young beautiful but stressed out children's writer seeks out a holiday in the country but becomes the lead character in a supernatural mystery she must solve to save her life...
53%
from 2,383 members
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Mary
(2005)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Modine
Director: Abel Ferrara
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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 »
53%
from 9 members
Currently unavailable
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A Little Trip to Heaven
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Julia Stiles, Forest Whitaker, Peter Coyote
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
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Insurance agent Abe Holt (Forest Whitaker) is investigating the suspicious death of the driver of a burned-out car. Holt has to work out whether the dead man, a conman with a criminal record, could possibly have been the victim of an attempt to swindle the insurance company. When he meets Isolde (..read more »
53%
from 373 members
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Phone Booth - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Joel Schumacher (8 MM, FALLING DOWN) directs this suspense drama set in New York City's Times Square. A wannabe hotshot entertainment publicist who's more intent on posturing for his unpaid assistant than he is in actually working, Stu Shepherd (Colin Farrell) ducks into a phone booth to make his ..read more »
67%
from 3,301 members
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Phone Booth
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Joel Schumacher (8 MM, FALLING DOWN) directs this suspense drama set in New York City's Times Square. A wannabe hotshot entertainment publicist who's more intent on posturing for his unpaid assistant than he is in actually working, Stu Shepherd (Colin Farrell) ducks into a phone booth to make his ..read more »
63%
from 39,684 members
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Panic Room
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker
Director: David Fincher
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As David Fincher's PANIC ROOM begins, recently divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) halfheartedly tours through an old New York City townhouse with her restless young daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart). Using money from her divorce settlement, the unhappy mother decides to buy the spacious home. The ..read more »
63%
from 18,148 members
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The Fourth Angel
(2001)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Forest Whitaker, Jason Priestley
Director: John Irvin
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Magazine editor, Jack Elgin, is left distraught after his wife and three children are murdered in a terrorist attack. The perpetrators are caught and to Jack's disbelief they are then released. It is then that he decides to take the law into his own hands and with the help of his friend Kate they ..read more »
53%
from 807 members
Not currently released
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4 Dogs Playing Poker
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Stacy Edwards, Paul Balthazar Getty, Daniel London
Director: Paul Rachman
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Four friends get in over their heads when they try to make a bigtime heist. They pull off the job, stealing a small, but priceless sculpture. Immediately, the sculpture is missing and the novice group of thieves find themselves burdened with a debt to a crime lord that they cannot pay. Their ..read more »
44%
from 64 members
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Body Count
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Forest Whitaker
Director: Robert Patton Spruill
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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...
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from 196 members
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Hope Floats
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowlands
Director: Forest Whitaker
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Birdee (Sandra Bullock) is an unassuming housewife whose life is disrupted when her husband (Michael Pare) reveals his infidelity to her on a Jerry Springer style chat show. She goes home to her mother and the small town in which she grew up where everyone knows of her televised marital collapse. ..read more »
60%
from 6,835 members
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Phenomenon
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker
Director: Jon Turteltaub
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A simple, small-town garage mechanic suddenly develops extraordinary intelligence--including telekinetic powers and an unquenchable thirst for knowledge--which affects his life in unexpected ways. The government wants to investigate him, scientists want to study him, and the townspeople become ..read more »
66%
from 5,658 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
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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
57%
from 7 members
Currently unavailable
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Smoke - Blu-ray
(1995)
Starring: William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Stockard Channing
Director: Wayne Wang
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A collection of unrelated characters somehow come together and change each others lives... A cigar store manager takes a daily photograph of his store... A writer recently widowed is unable to write... A man who accidentally killed his wife runs away from his past...
78%
from 20 members
Due for release on 19th March 2012
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Species - Blu-ray
(1995)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina
Director: Roger Donaldson
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A genetically engineered, shape-shifting creature with extraterrestrial intelligence adopts the form of a beautiful woman to mate with humans and unleash a brood of offspring that will destroy mankind. A team of experts must band together to stop her--it--from accomplishing its diabolical mission.
61%
from 1,111 member
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Waiting To Exhale
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine
Director: Forest Whitaker
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The adaptation of Terry McMillan's best-selling novel, about four middle-class, African-American friends, and their continuing efforts to find Mr. Right. The story begins with Bernadine, whose husband John calmly announces that he's leaving her -- for a white woman. Furthermore, the wealthy John ..read more »
60%
from 1,364 member
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Species
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina
Director: Roger Donaldson
Certificate:
A genetically engineered, shape-shifting creature with extraterrestrial intelligence adopts the form of a beautiful woman to mate with humans and unleash a brood of offspring that will destroy mankind. A team of experts must band together to stop her--it--from accomplishing its diabolical mission.
59%
from 6,595 members
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Smoke
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Stockard Channing
Director: Wayne Wang
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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 »
71%
from 2,068 members
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Lush Life
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Forest Whitaker, Kathy Baker
Director: Michael Elias
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Jazz musicians Al Gorky and Buddy Chester live the bohemian life, but Al's devil-may-care attitude is affecting his marriage and his music. Buddy discovers he is dying and the two realise that they should face up to their own mortality as they plan to have one last session.
57%
from 59 members
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The Enemy Within
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Sam Waterston, Dana Delany
Director: Jonathan Darby
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A member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a plot by his superior to overthrow the U.S. government. Loyal to the president despite huge cuts in military budgets, the officer puts everything he has on the line to try and stop the coup.
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from 71 members
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Blown Away
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Lloyd Bridges
Director: Stephen Hopkins
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An escaped Irish political prisoner and explosives expert terrorizes the city of Boston. A bomb squad expert and former friend of the mad bomber has to stop his vengeful rampage before his family and the whole city are...Blown Away.
61%
from 1,969 member
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Body Snatchers
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Gabrielle Anwar, Meg Tilly, Forest Whitaker
Director: Abel Ferrara
Certificate:
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A science fiction survival story which starts with a hazardous waste clean-up on a military base but a military doctor notices frightening changes in his patients. Is this as a result of a toxic waste accident or something more sinister?
58%
from 1,056 member
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Last Light
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Kiefer Sutherland, Amanda Plummer
Director: Kiefer Sutherland
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Sutherland plays a death row prisoner abused by the system. Ironically, the prison guard assigned to death row sees something similar between the two and as their relationship begins to open him up, it changes his life.
53%
from 321 members
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Article 99
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Lea Thompson, John Mahoney
Director: Howard Deutch
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A doctor at a veteran's hospital tries to provide better care for his patients. Due to governmental catch-22's, the patients most in need of care are denied treatment. Doctors become con artists subverting the government by making all of their patients' ailments appear to be war-related so they ..read more »
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from 211 members
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The Crying Game - Blu-ray
(1992)
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Stephen Rea, Forest Whitaker
Director: Neil Jordan
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This highly original film put screenwriter/director Neil Jordan on the international map. The story begins at a carnival in Ireland with British soldier Jody (Forest Whitaker) kidnapped by IRA terrorists Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Fergus (Stephen Rea). Fergus is assigned to guard Jody, and they ..read more »
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from 27 members
Currently unavailable
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The Crying Game
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Stephen Rea, Forest Whitaker
Director: Neil Jordan
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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 »
66%
from 12,694 members
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A Rage In Harlem
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Robin Givens, Danny Glover, Forest Whitaker
Director: Bill Duke
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When the sultry Imabelle arrives from Mississippi with a chest full of stolen gold she attracts a lot of attention from the local crooks, including Slim, the meanest and the deadliest of them all. The streets of Harlem will never be the same again.
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from 68 members
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Downtown
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Anthony Edwards, Joe Pantoliano
Director: Richard Benjamin
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A young white cop finds himself assigned to a tough downtown Philadelphia precinct and a new partner. The two are as different as night and day. But the murder of the reassigned cop's former partner unites the pair to a degree they never thought possible.
45%
from 86 members
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Bird
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker
Director: Clint Eastwood
Certificate:
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Charlie Bird Parker had been a hero of Clint Eastwood's since childhood, and Eastwood, having been disappointed in such jazz biopics as YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, really wanted to make a true jazz fan's movie about the music. He cast Forest Whitaker as Parker, the legendary alto sax player, and Diane ..read more »
63%
from 1,053 member
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Good Morning, Vietnam
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Robert Wuhl
Director: Barry Levinson
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In 1965, there isn't much for military personnel serving in Vietnam to smile about--that is, until deejay Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) takes to the airwaves. In GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM, which is based on a true story, Cronauer is a nonconformist with a wicked sense of humor who is transferred ..read more »
71%
from 12,426 members
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Johnny Handsome
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Lance Henriksen
Director: Walter Hill
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A small-time criminal with a disfigured face takes the rap of a soured robbery. In jail, he receives a new face and is granted parole. He begins an honest life, but his old partners show up to spoil his plans, except he has plans too - of revenge.
56%
from 406 members
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Stakeout
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Richard Dreyfuss, Madeline Stowe
Director: John Badham
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While on an FBI stakeout, detective Chris Lecce (Richard Dreyfuss) falls hard for Maria (Madeleine Stowe), the woman he's supposed to be watching. Soon he's inside her home enjoying a torrid love affair, while his young partner Bill Reimers (Emilio Estevez), waits across the street, looking through ..read more »
64%
from 3,676 members
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Platoon
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger
Director: Oliver Stone
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In PLATOON, Oliver Stone uses his experience as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the immediacy of guerrilla warfare: the brutal heat of the jungle, the brushes with such wildlife as snakes and leeches, and, most powerfully, the presence of the unseen enemy. Charlie Sheen stars as Chris, a raw ..read more »
74%
from 34,608 members
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Platoon - Blu-ray
(1986)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger
Director: Oliver Stone
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In PLATOON, Oliver Stone uses his experience as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the immediacy of guerrilla warfare: the brutal heat of the jungle, the brushes with such wildlife as snakes and leeches, and, most powerfully, the presence of the unseen enemy. Charlie Sheen stars as Chris, a raw ..read more »
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from 116 members
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Forest Whitaker facts
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.... 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...
