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  • Stallone defends casting 50 Cent in Whitaker role - 19 March 2009
    il, which sees some of Tinsletown's most notorious action stars team up, including Jet Li, Mickey Rourke and Jason Statham.- - Forest Whitaker was also slated to appear in the movie as Agent Will Sands, but was forced to drop out due to scheduling conflicts after shooti

Forest Whitaker - what members say


  • Platoon
  • Platoon review by A customer from Cornwall
    Rated - 5 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...  
  • Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai
  • Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai review by Lunar from Derby
    Rated - 4 stars Captivating 16 September 2004
    ...Fantastic low budget mob based samurai epic, which is superbly shot and Forest Whitaker is so utterly watchable to boot....  
  • The Crying Game
  • The Crying Game review by from Dorset
    Rated - 4 stars Suddenly - one helluva film 9 April 2005
    ...ng and you have a winner. Early supporting role by James Broadbent, and also Forest Whitaker who later was brilliant in "Ghost Dog". Stephen Rea is superb as the disaffe...  

Forest Whitaker - filmography


  • Repo Men (2010)
    Starring: Jude Law,  Forest Whitaker,  Alice Braga
    Director: Miguel Sapochnik
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    *This title is currently unavailable for rental.* A repo man, made up of artificial organs, receives a heart transplant and, when he struggles to make the payments, must go on the run from his former partner.
    Rate this: 1 star out of 5 20% from 1 member
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  • Powder Blue (2009)
    Starring: Jessica Biel,  Jeffery A. Baker,  Eddie Redmayne
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 25 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 »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 40% from 3 members
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  • Panic Room (3 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Jared Leto,  Forest Whitaker
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 16,039 members
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  • Body Count (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...
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 167 members
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  • Species on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Michael Madsen,  Alfred Molina
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 6,263 members
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  • Smoke on DVD (1995)
    Starring: William Hurt,  Harvey Keitel,  Stockard Channing
    Director: Wayne Wang
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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...
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,721 member
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  • The Enemy Within on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Sam Waterston,  Dana Delany
    Director: Jonathan Darby
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 58 members
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  • Lush Life on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Jeff Goldblum,  Forest Whitaker,  Kathy Baker
    Director: Michael Elias
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 52 members
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  • Bird on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Diane Venora
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 736 members
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  • Stakeout on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Emilio Estevez,  Richard Dreyfuss,  Madeline Stowe
    Director: John Badham
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,253 members
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  • Platoon on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Charlie Sheen,  Willem Dafoe,  Tom Berenger
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 30,146 members
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  • Ripple Effect
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Virginia Madsen,  Minnie Driver
    Director: Philippe Caland
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2 members
    Due for release on 26th April 2010
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Forest Whitaker facts

5 most recent films

Repo Men - 1.0 stars
Our Family Wedding - 3 stars
The Expendables - 4.0 stars
Powder Blue - 3.0 stars
Street Kings - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Where the Wild Things Are - 4.0 stars
The Last King Of Scotland - 4.0 stars
The Great Debaters - 4.0 stars
Platoon - 3.5 stars
Smoke - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Our Family Wedding - 3 stars
Repo Men - 1.0 stars
Green Dragon - 2.0 stars
Mary - 2.0 stars
A Rage In Harlem - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Keith David - 4 times - show films
John McGinley - 4 times - show films
Kevin Dillon - 3 times - show films
John Corbett - 3 times - show films
Kiefer Sutherland - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Oliver Stone - 3 times - show films
David Ayer - 3 times - show films
Joel Schumacher - 2 times - show films
Roger Donaldson - 2 times - show films
Pete Travis - 2 times - show films


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