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  • Clockers
  • Clockers review by from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars A decent film which could have been something special 31 October 2004
    ...evant they may be. The story concerns a young drug dealer nicknamed 'Strike'(Mekhi Phifer), who works for drug boss Rodney(Delroy Lindo). When Rodney gets Strike to murd...   Read customer review
  • Honey
  • Honey review by from Truth Or Consequences, Scotland
    Rated - 2.0 stars Well, it's better than Glitter. 17 April 2004
    ...etween Honey and her old friends. With bolted on love interests in the shape of Mekhi Phifer and an uninspired sub-plot about saving two kids from a life of crime through t...   Read customer review

Mekhi Phifer - filmography


  • Puff, Puff, Pass (2006)
    Starring: Scott Grimes,  Danny Masterson,  John C. McGinley
    Director: Mekhi Phifer
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Danny Masterson (THAT '70s SHOW) and Mekhi Phifer (8-MILE) play two stoners who decide drug rehab is no fun, and devise a plan to scam a criminal kingpin, Mr. Big, in this lighthearted pothead comedy.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 6 members
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  • Slow Burn on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ray Liotta,  LL Cool J,  Mekhi Phifer
    Director: Wayne Beach
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    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.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 811 members
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  • Dawn Of The Dead on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Sarah Polley,  Ving Rhames,  Jake Weber
    Director: Zack Snyder
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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...
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 28,375 members
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  • Honey (2004)
    Starring: Jessica Alba,  Mekhi Phifer,  Lil Romeo
    Director: Billie Woodruff
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Honey Daniels has been waiting all her life to show the world her dance moves, and now everything she ever wanted is just a step away. For years, Honey's spirit and ambition have given her--as dancer and aspiring choreographer--the guts to move ahead, even when those who love her most have doubts ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 8,867 members
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  • Carmen - A Hip Hopera (2002)
    Starring: Beyonce Knowles,  Mekhi Phifer,  Mos Def
    Director: Robert Townsend
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 19 members
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  • 8 Mile - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Eminem,  Mekhi Phifer,  Brittany Murphy
    Director: Curtis Hanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 835 members
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  • 8 Mile on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Eminem,  Mekhi Phifer,  Brittany Murphy
    Director: Curtis Hanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 12,889 members
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  • Paid In Full on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Cam'Ron,  Mekhi Phifer,  Wood Harris
    Director: Charles Stone III
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 4,191 members
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  • The Other Brother on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Andre B. Blake,  Carmen de Lavallade,  Mekhi Phifer
    Director: Mandel Holland
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 295 members
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  • Impostor (2001)
    Starring: Gary Sinise,  Madeline Stowe,  Vincent D'Onofrio
    Director: Gary Fleder
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,388 members
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  • Brian's Song on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Sean Maher,  Mekhi Phifer,  Ben Gazzara
    Director: John Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 240 members
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  • O - Feature on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Mekhi Phifer,  Josh Hartnett,  Martin Sheen
    Director: Tim Blake Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,952 member
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  • Uninvited Guest (2000)
    Starring: Mekhi Phifer,  Mel Jackson
    Director: Timothy Wayne Folsome
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 149 members
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  • A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
    Starring: Don Cheadle,  Cicely Tyson,  Mekhi Phifer
    Director: Joseph Sargent
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 192 members
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  • Hell's Kitchen NYC on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Stephen Payne,  Jade Yorker,  Angelina Jolie
    Director: Tony Cinciripini
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 1,037 member
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  • Soul Food on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Vanessa Williams,  Vivica A. Fox,  Nia Long
    Director: George Tillman Jr.
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 991 members
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  • Clockers on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Harvey Keitel,  John Turturro,  Delroy Lindo
    Director: Spike Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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...
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,456 members
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Mekhi Phifer facts

5 most recent films

Lie To Me - Season 2 - 4.5 stars
ER - Season 15 - The Final Season - 4.5 stars
ER - Season 14 - 4.0 stars
A Day In The Life - 2.0 stars
ER - Season 13 - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

ER - Season 15 - The Final Season - 4.5 stars
Lie To Me - Season 2 - 4.5 stars
ER - Season 9 - 4.5 stars
ER - Season 12 - 4.5 stars
ER - Season 14 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

A Day In The Life - 2.0 stars
Carmen - A Hip Hopera - 3.0 stars
Puff, Puff, Pass - 4.0 stars
Hell's Kitchen NYC - 2.0 stars
The Other Brother - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Maura Tierney - 28 times - show films
Parminder Nagra - 20 times - show films
Goran Visnjic - 20 times - show films
Noah Wyle - 12 times - show films
Laura Innes - 12 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Christopher Chulack - 16 times - show films
Richard Thorpe - 12 times - show films
Paul McCrane - 12 times - show films
Chris Misiano - 8 times - show films
Stephen Cragg - 8 times - show films