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Antonio Fargas
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Antonio Fargas - what members say
review by howie from London
An enjoyable film about nothing 8 November 2004
review by from Cardiff, Wales
Don't mess aroun' with Foxy Brown! 11 January 2005
review by from West Midlands
Somewhat more than blaxploitation... 10 May 2006
Antonio Fargas - filmography
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Sucker Punch
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Gordon Alexander, Antonio Fargas, Ian 'The Machine' Freeman
Director: Malcolm Martin
Certificate: 
The story of a hustler looking to gain revenge on a top fight promoter, 'Sucker Punch' sees lowlife loser Harley (Danny John Jules) form a fragile partnership with enigmatic fighter Buchinsky (Gordon Alexander) to topple fight baron Maitland (Ian Freeman) in this fast-paced action comedy. With ..read more »
 
44%
from 378 members
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Whore
(1991)
Starring: Theresa Russell, Benjamin Mouton, Antonio Fargas
Director: Ken Russell
Certificate:
Theresa Russell plays a Californian street prostitute in hiding from her vicious pimp. In a series of flashbacks, she recalls customers good and bad, and how she came to lead that life. Ken Russell directs this adatpation of a play written by London cabbie David Hines, who based it on the stories ..read more »
58%
from 8 members
Currently unavailable
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Blue Jean Cop
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Peter Weller, Antonio Fargas, Patricia Charbonneau
Director: James Glickenhaus
Certificate:
Blue Jean Cop
A tough Manhattan Legal Aid Attorney is about to move up to a comfortable and well-paid job on Wall Street. His last assignment is to defend a black drugs dealer who has shot dead an undercover cop in Central Park. The dealer insists he fired in self-defence, and the attorney must ..read more »
51%
from 230 members
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
(1988)
Starring: Jim Brown, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Certificate: 
Keenen Ivory Wayans writes, directs and stars in this spoof on old-time blaxploitation films. Wayans is Jack Spade, an ex-soldier who returns home to his old neighbourhood when his brother dies of an overdose of gold chains. When he finds that the crimelord Mr Big (John Vernon) is the man behind it ..read more »
60%
from 851 members
Currently unavailable
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Night of the Sharks
(1987)
Starring: Treat Williams, Janet Agren, Antonio Fargas
Director: Anthony Richmond
Certificate:
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Action drama. David (Treat Williams) is a professional shark hunter who discovers a disc revealing his dead brother's activities with a cortel of dangerous gangsters. When the gangsters travel down to Mexico to recover the disc, David has to use his shark-hunting skills to stay one step ahead and ..read more »
30%
from 73 members
Currently unavailable
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Crimewave
(1985)
Starring: Antonio Fargas, Richard Bright, Brion James
Director: Sam Raimi
Certificate: 
The Coen brothers team up with horror director Sam Raimi to produce this serial killer spoof. When Detroit pest exterminators Crush and Coddish decide to expand their operation to include the disposal of humans, their best-laid plans soon go awry as the firm's body count escalates out of control.
55%
from 541 members
Currently unavailable
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Starsky And Hutch - First Season
(5 discs)
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Paul Michael Glaser, Antonio Fargas, David Soul
Certificate:
The entire first season of the coolest cop show on television during the Seventies (which one did you like, Starsky or Hutch?). Streetwise, undercover cops Dave Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser in that cardigan) and Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson (David Soul, the blond one) cruise the streets in a red and ..read more »
64%
from 1,703 member
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Car Wash
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Tracy Reed, Lorraine Gary, The Pointer Sisters
Director: Michael Schultz
Certificate: 
A musical day in the life of the Dee Luxe Car Wash, where the employees while away the hours until closing time by doing anything other than work. Amongst those pulling up to get their windscreens buffed are George Carlin, The Pointer Sisters and Richard Pryor, as a Reverend preaching the holiness ..read more »
60%
from 621 members
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Foxy Brown
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Antonio Fargas, Harry Holcombe, Sid Haig
Director: Jack Hill
Certificate:
Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier stars as Foxy Brown, a sexy but streetwise woman whose ne'er-do-well brother Link (Antonio Fargas) is a drug dealer who owes mobsters 20,000 dollars. To get the hoods off his back, Link names Foxy's boyfriend as a government agent trying to wipe out organized crime, ..read more »
60%
from 1,059 member
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Shaft
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Victor Arnold, Lawrence Pressman, Christopher St. John
Director: Gordon Parks
Certificate:
Richard Roundtree cuts a startlingly new and powerful heroic figure as John Shaft, the cat who won't cop out, when there's danger all about in Gordon Parks' seminal action film, Shaft. John Shaft is a black private eye with a small office near Times Square. On his way there one day, he gets pumped ..read more »
58%
from 1,567 member
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Antonio Fargas facts
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...such comes across as an extended sit-com episode, except you don't normally get Antonio Fargas, Richard Pryor and Chris Rock in sit-coms. It's a charmingly irreverant, upbea...
