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Mekhi Phifer
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Mekhi Phifer - filmography
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Slow Burn
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Ray Liotta, LL Cool J, Mekhi Phifer
Director: Wayne Beach
Certificate: 
A district attorney (Ray Liotta) is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney (Jolene Blalock) and a cryptic stranger.
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56%
from 677 members
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Dawn Of The Dead
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber
Director: Zack Snyder
Certificate: 
A female nurse, Anna, and a black police officer, Kenneth, are caught in the middle of world-wide chaos as flesh-eating zombies begin to take over the world by attacking the living...
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64%
from 25,984 members
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Honey
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Lil Romeo
Director: Billie Woodruff
Certificate: 
With a plethora of flashy cameos by artists Missy Elliot, Tweet, Ginuwine, Jadakiss, and Sheek, HONEY feels like an extended hip-hop video with an inspiring, socially conscious message about ambition and the bittersweet taste of success.New York City dancer-choreographer Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba,..read more »
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60%
from 8,154 members
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Carmen - A Hip Hopera
(2002)
Starring: Beyonce Knowles, Mekhi Phifer, Mos Def
Director: Robert Townsend
Certificate: 
This 2002 version of Bizet's opera is updated for the hip-hop generation. The tale of Carmen, an irresistible woman who who tears men apart, is told in this passionate drama set to the sound of hot hip-hop and featuring an all-star cast including Mos Def, lil Bow Wow, Troy Winbush, Jermaine Dupri, ..read more »
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53%
from 9 members
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8 Mile - BLU-RAY Version
(2002)
Starring: Eminem, Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy
Director: Curtis Hanson
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Controversial rapper Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) makes his big screen debut with 8 MILE, a bracing drama directed by the increasingly audacious Curtis Hanson. Set in 1995 in the bleak, urban battle zone of Detroit, the film follows the struggles of a young man desperate to make a better ..read more »
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63%
from 348 members
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8 Mile
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Eminem, Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy
Director: Curtis Hanson
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Controversial rapper Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) makes his big screen debut with 8 MILE, a bracing drama directed by the increasingly audacious Curtis Hanson. Set in 1995 in the bleak, urban battle zone of Detroit, the film follows the struggles of a young man desperate to make a better ..read more »
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61%
from 11,441 members
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Impostor
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Gary Sinise, Madeline Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio
Director: Gary Fleder
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Gary Sinise enters the world of futuristic action heroes in Gary Fleder's sci-fi thriller IMPOSTOR, based on a story by Philip K. Dick. Sinise stars as Spencer Olham, a weapons expert in 2079 who wakes up one morning to find himself accused of being an alien. He sets out on the run, being hunted ..read more »
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59%
from 2,024 members
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Brian's Song
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Sean Maher, Mekhi Phifer, Ben Gazzara
Director: John Gray
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This remake of the classic 1971 made-for-TV tear jerker details the late-1960s interracial friendship between new Chicago Bears recruit Gale Sayers (Mekhi Phifer, in the Billy Dee Williams role) and valuable running back Brian Piccolo (Sean Maher, in the role originally played by James Caan). ..read more »
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61%
from 187 members
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Uninvited Guest
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Mekhi Phifer, Mel Jackson
Director: Timothy Wayne Folsome
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Three friends, working diligently to finish writing the screenplay for the movie that they think will make them famous, are distracted one evening by a knock at the door. The stranger at the door is named Silk (Mekhi Phifer, 8 MILE), and besides the car trouble that brought him to the door, he ..read more »
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49%
from 128 members
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O - Feature
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Mekhi Phifer, Josh Hartnett, Martin Sheen
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
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Director Tim Blake Nelson sets Shakespeare's "Othello" in a modern day private high school and the result is a dark, somber teen tragedy. Mekhi Phifer (CLOCKERS) stars as Odin James, an African American star basketball player at the otherwise all-white school. The coach of the team (Martin Sheen) ..read more »
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52%
from 1,731 member
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A Lesson Before Dying
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer
Director: Joseph Sargent
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An uplifting tale of a black man (Phifer) in the 1940's South who is wrongly accused of killing a white man. His attorney's only defense is that he is an animal, a hog, and, therefore, is unaccountable for his actions. Predictably, he is convicted of the crime. Distraught in a prison cell, his ..read more »
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61%
from 177 members
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Hell's Kitchen NYC
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Mekhi Phifer, Rosanna Arquette
Director: Tony Cinciripini
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HELL'S KITCHEN NYC tells the tragic story of a group of New York City youths whose involvement in a drug deal ends up ruining their lives. After the drug deal turns sour, one of them ends up dead. The remaining three individuals must confront what really happened and decide for themselves who is to ..read more »
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43%
from 965 members
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Soul Food
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long
Director: George Tillman Jr
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SOUL FOOD is a warmly atmospheric ensemble drama set around the abundant table of Chicago family matriarch Mother Joe, whose extended brood orbits around the stabilising force of her sumptuous Sunday dinners. However, when dissent brews between the competitive sisters Maxine and Teri, grandson (and ..read more »
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69%
from 807 members
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High School High
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Jon Lovitz, Tia Carrere, Louise Fletcher
Director: Hart Bochner
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Jon Lovitz stars in this spoof of high school movies along the lines of Dangerous Minds, stories of dedicated teachers in tough inner-city schools plagued by gangs and guns.
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60%
from 263 members
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Clockers
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo
Director: Spike Lee
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Strike is the hardest-working drug dealer on the street. But time is beginning to run out for him when a deal with an evil drug boss results in the death of a rival dealer...
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60%
from 2,215 members
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Paid In Full
on DVD
Starring: Mekhi Phifer, Wood Harris, Cam'Ron
Director: Charles Stone III
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Set in the early 1980s, this entry in the African-American urban gangster genre puts character development in the front seat for a change as it rolls through the Harlem streets on its usual rise-and-fall route. Ace (Wood Harris) starts out a laundry delivery guy, but thanks to a chance encounter ..read more »
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52%
from 3,912 members
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The Other Brother
on DVD
Starring: Andre B. Blake, Carmen de Lavallade, Mekhi Phifer
Director: Mandel Holland
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Martin (Phifer) has spent his life being a good son, a good brother and a good friend, but his luck with women is all bad. The softly spoken art columnist hasn't had a date in three years since losing his fiancée to bi-curiosity and when he meets Paula (Miller), the pretty young art professor who ..read more »
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43%
from 288 members
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Mekhi Phifer facts
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Othello 17 December 2003
...today - and so they must have been then. Performances are strong, especially by Mekhi Phifer. A good watch if you don't know the story, anyway....
Well, it's better than Glitter. 17 April 2004
