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Cuba Gooding Jr.
cuba Gooding Jr. was born on January 2, 1968, in The Bronx, New York. His father, cuba Gooding, was the lead vocalist for the R&B group The Main Ingredient, which had a hit with the song "Everybody Plays The Fool". His mother, Shirley, was a backup singer for The Sweethearts. His father moved the family to Los Angeles in 1972, only to leave them a few years later. Despite this setback, cuba was able to maintain a positive outlook and overachieved throughout school. He attended four different high schools and was elected class president in three of them. While at high school, cuba met and fell in love with Sara Kapfer, whom he later lived with for seven years before tying the knot in March 1994.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. - filmography
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The Hit List
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Cole Hauser, Jonathan LaPaglia
Director: William Kaufman
Certificate: 
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A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.
 
58%
from 6,240 members
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Sacrifice
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Devon Bostick, Christian Slater
Director: Damian Lee
Certificate:
Watch now: £3.49
In SACRIFICE, it's a harsh, cold world, but it's even tougher for a little girl trapped as a pawn in an underground drug ring. When drug dealer Mike tries to get his five year-old sister Angel and himself out of the dangerous heroin trade, he enlists the help of tough undercover cop John Hebron. ..read more »
51%
from 65 members
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Ticking Clock
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Neal McDonough, Austin Abrams
Director: Ernie Barbarash
Certificate: 
When an investigative reporter stumbles upon the journal of a murderer replete with plans to butcher specific people, he investigates on his own, and finds that every trail leads to a seemingly anonymous 9-year-old orphan living in a group home.
57%
from 1,598 member
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Hardwired
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Michael Ironside, Cuba Gooding Jr., Val Kilmer
Director: Ernie Barbarash
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After losing his wife in a horrific car accident, Luke Gibson (Academy Award ® Winner Cuba Gooding Jr., Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Jerry Maguire, 1996) wakes up in the hospital to find his once idyllic life on the brink of destruction. Implanted with a lethal microchip and monitored ..read more »
51%
from 1,717 member
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The Devil's Tomb
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Taryn Manning, Valerie Cruz
Director: Jason Connery
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
A team of mercenaries under the command of hard-charging war veteran Mack (Gooding Jr.), are contracted by a mysterious CIA operative named Elissa (Cruz) to rescue a scientist (Perlman) working on an archaeological discovery deep under the Middle Eastern desert. With the help of a mysterious priest ..read more »
43%
from 801 members
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Lies and Illusions
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Christian Slater, Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Ann Schultz
Director: Tibor Takacs
Certificate:
Watch now: £3.49
Christian Slater (True Romance) stars as best-selling author Wes Wilson, whose self-help book about honesty has saved millions of relationships. When his fiancée is abducted and declared dead, Wes suddenly finds himself hunted by hired killers, beautiful spies, and a ruthless criminal mastermind (..read more »
38%
from 352 members
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Linewatch
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Omari Hardwick, Sharon Leal
Director: Kevin Bray
Certificate:
Michael Dixon is a seasoned agent working linewatch on the US/Mexico Border. Well respected by his peers at US Border Patrol, and well loved by his family (wife Angela and 5 year old daughter Emily), Michael's world is suddenly threatened by secrets from his past. Michael was not always the ..read more »
54%
from 1,922 member
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Harold
(2008)
Starring: Spencer Breslin, Ally Sheedy, Stella Maeve
Director: T. Sean Shannon
Certificate: 
As a young teenager suffering from really early male-pattern baldness, Harold has never had it easy. Despite the efforts of his scattered mother --- and aggravated by his beauty-queen-mean sister - life is a trial for Harold. And, now his teen angst is topping out: He's facing his first day at a ..read more »
42%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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The Way Of War
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., J.K. Simmons, John Terry
Director: John Carter
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
David Wolfe (Oscar-Award winning Cuba Gooding Jr. - "American Gangster") is a highly trained killer, deployed by the U.S. government to infiltrate terrorist conspiracies and counter their attacks. But when Wolfe is assigned the assassination of the leader of enemy forces, the Ace of Spades, he ..read more »
38%
from 195 members
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Hero Wanted
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ray Liotta, Norman Reedus
Director: Brian Smrz
Certificate:
After he awakens in a hospital, a man tracks down and murders the man that left him and a bank teller for dead during a robbery, only to end up having the slain thief's associates come after him in retaliation.
56%
from 7,980 members
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American Gangster
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin
Director: Ridley Scott
Certificate:
Academy Award® winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team with director Ridley Scott (Gladiator) in this powerful, epic story. Armed with ruthless, streetwise tactics and a strict sense of honour, crime boss Frank Lucas (Washington) rules HarlemÂ’s chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop ..read more »
75%
from 104,615 members
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American Gangster - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin
Director: Ridley Scott
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AMERICAN GANGSTER is based on a true story and set in 1968 Harlem, where Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) is a driver for Bumpy Johnson, one of the top figures in the city's criminal world. When Bumpy dies, Lucas swoops in, taking over his predecessor's empire and expanding it over the next few ..read more »
76%
from 6,062 members
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End Game
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Cuba Gooding Jr., Heather Dawn
Director: Andy Cheng
Certificate: 
The secret service agent in charge of the president's safety blames himself and his team for failing to stop his assassination. He quits his post only to become obsessed with solving the crime. A tenacious reporter aids him in his quest. Together they follow a perilous path of intrigue, unravelling ..read more »
55%
from 10,187 members
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Dirty
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Robert La Sardo, Clifton Collins Jr.
Director: Chris Fisher
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Cuba Gooding Jr. stars in this gritty drama about the dark and deadly world of crooked cops in LA's "Crash" program. Partners "Sancho" and "Day" are members of an elite group of narcotics officers in the Crash program. Sancho is a gangbanger turned cop who tries to make ends meet in order to care ..read more »
50%
from 4,873 members
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Shadowboxer
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Cuba Gooding Jr., Stephen Dorff
Director: Lee Daniels
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When Rose (Helen Mirren), a female assassin, is diagnosed with terminal cancer; she decides to carry out one final killing, assisted by lover and also stepson, Mickey (Cuba Gooding Jr).
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from 8,933 members
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Home On The Range
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Roseanne Barr, Judi Dench, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Director: Will Finn, John Sanford
Certificate: 
The American West is brought to the screen in vivid purple and blue animation in Disney's barnyard adventure HOME ON THE RANGE. With geometric patches representing a vast expanse of farmland, and landscapes ranging from rocky desert to lush green pastures, this classic cartoon--no Pixar influence ..read more »
57%
from 10,848 members
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The Fighting Temptations
(2003)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Beyonce Knowles, Wanda Williams
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Certificate: 
As a young boy growing up in Montecarlo, Georgia, Darrin sings in the church choir alongside his mother (Faith Evans). He and his mum leave town after the choir discovers that she has been singing rhythm and blues in a local club. Twenty years later, Darrin (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is a broke, junior-..read more »
59%
from 2,799 members
Not currently released
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Radio
(2003)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard
Director: Michael Tollin
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James Robert Kennedy--nicknamed 'Radio' because of his vintage radio collection and his love of music--is a loner in Anderson, South Carolina, pushing his ever-present grocery cart up and down the streets. He speaks to no one and is rarely spoken to, until one day, Coach Harold Jones, one of the ..read more »
66%
from 4,003 members
Not currently released
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Snow Dogs
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., James Coburn, Sisqo
Director: Brian Levant
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Director Brian Levant (BEETHOVEN) goes to the dogs again in Disney's SNOW DOGS. Cuba Gooding, Jr. stars as Ted Brooks, a successful Miami dentist who finds out that he was adopted, and has to travel to Alaska for the reading of his birth mother's will. There, he meets the small community of crazies ..read more »
67%
from 3,350 members
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Boat Trip
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Horatio Sanz, Vivica A. Fox
Director: Mort Nathan
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In this comic romp, suave single guys looking to 'score' with the ladies plan to take a cruise in the steamy Caribbean. However, they accidentally choose an all-gay cruise. Even when they manage to meet some women, they must then explain that they are not gay. BOAT TRIP stars Cuba Gooding Jr., as ..read more »
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from 3,901 members
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Zoolander - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell
Director: Ben Stiller
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Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) isn't smart, but he looks "really, really good." An empty-headed yet kindhearted male model, the self-absorbed Derek becomes an unwitting pawn in a international assassination plot masterminded by oddball fashion dictator Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrell). Meanwhile, the ..read more »
71%
from 22 members
Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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Rat Race
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg
Director: Jerry Zucker
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An all-star cast proves just how far people will go for the chance to win $2 million in Jerry Zucker's RAT RACE. In the tradition of Zucker's AIRPLANE and NAKED GUN 2-1/2: THE SMELL OF FEAR, this film features wild chase scenes, slapstick comedy, sight gags, impossible situations, and zany ..read more »
62%
from 4,939 members
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Men Of Honour
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr., Charlize Theron
Director: George Tillman Jr.
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A heroic life gets a suitably dramatic retelling in George Tillman Jr.'s docudrama MEN OF HONOR. Based on the true story of Carl Brashear, the first African American to become a United States Navy master diver, the film follows the conventional yet pleasurable against-all-odds narrative. Carl ..read more »
72%
from 6,861 members
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Instinct
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland
Director: Jon Turteltaub
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Theo Caulder (Gooding, Jr.) is an ambitious psychiatrist who has been asked by his mentor Ben Hillard (Sutherland) to evaluate the case of legendary anthropologist and primatologist Ethan Powell (Hopkins). Powell- a highly educated man who holds an ominous secret in his past- is currently being ..read more »
64%
from 2,522 members
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Chill Factor
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth
Director: Hugh Johnson
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A decade after an army accident involving a chemical weapon with the power to fry the skin off every living thing within a five-mile radius, the army major who wrongly took the blame is released from prison and is out for vengeance. The means
58%
from 623 members
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What Dreams May Come
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Robin Williams, Annabella Sciorra, Max von Sydow
Director: Vincent Ward
Certificate:
One man's visually compelling journey through heaven, hell, and other worlds. Chris Nielsen (Williams) dies but cannot rest until he finds and joins his deceased wife (Sciorra) in the afterlife with the help of a friendly spirit (Gooding Jr.). Academy Award winner, Best Visual Effects, nominated ..read more »
65%
from 5,578 members
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Jerry Maguire - Blu-ray
(1996)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renee Zellweger
Director: Cameron Crowe
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Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise), a slick, high-living sports agent, is tired of the shallowness of his profession and wants to live a more fulfilling, ethical life. But Jerry's new outlook doesn't mesh with his agency's ethics, and he is promptly fired. Jerry finds himself left with one ally, one client,..read more »
71%
from 1,939 member
Not currently released
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Jerry Maguire
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renee Zellweger
Director: Cameron Crowe
Certificate:
Jerry Maguire is a man who knows the score. As a top agent at Sports Management International, Jerry is unquestionably a master of his universe. Trouble is -- Jerry's mind, mouth and soul are usually on automatic pilot. He's good at friendship, but (as his numerous ex-girlfriends testify) bad at ..read more »
67%
from 29,103 members
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As Good As It Gets
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear
Director: James L. Brooks
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Melvin Udall is a novelist who delights in his own ability to offend, repulse, affront and wound - not minding who he upsets in the process. It takes waitress Carol Connelly and the unexpected act of kindness of babysitting a neighbour's dog to put him back on track...
72%
from 25,093 members
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Losing Isaiah
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
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The story of an African-American baby who was abandoned by his crack addicted mother. The baby was adopted by a white social worker, but several years the later the child's mother, now free from her addiction fights to get her son back.
64%
from 712 members
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Lightning Jack
(1994)
Starring: Paul Hogan, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Director: Simon Wincer
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Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become good friends, with Jack teaching Ben how to rob banks, while they plan Jack's last heist.
55%
from 282 members
Currently unavailable
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Judgment Night
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary
Director: Stephen Hopkins
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On their way to a boxing match, Frank and John Wyatt and their friends get off the expressway in the worst part of town to avoid a traffic jam. But they're definitely not in Kansas any more when they cross paths with a psychotic drug lord, Fallon, who kills one of his subordinates right before ..read more »
69%
from 815 members
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Gladiator
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: James Marshall, Cuba Gooding Jr., Brian Dennehy
Director: Rowdy Herrington
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In Rowdy Herrington's GLADIATOR, Tommy (James Marshall) and Lincoln (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), two poor high school students on the brink of juvenile delinquency, have taken up boxing. Although it's a dangerous sport, fighting helps keep them off the street and out of violent gangs. It's also a way for ..read more »
70%
from 1,028 member
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Boyz 'N The Hood - Blu-ray
(1991)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut
Director: John Singleton
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John Singleton emerged from USC film school with his passionate script already written, and at age 23 he made the film that spawned a score of ghetto dramas. From the opening shot--a sign reading "Stop"--to the final message of "Increase the Peace," Singleton's desire to galvanize his audience is ..read more »
80%
from 287 members
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Boyz 'N The Hood
(1991)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut
Director: John Singleton
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Director John Singleton's debut chronicles the trials and tribulations of three young African-American males growing up in South Central Los Angeles. When young Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a bright underachiever, begins to show signs of trouble, his struggling professional mother (Angela Basset) sends ..read more »
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from 9,554 members
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Cuba Gooding Jr. facts
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...illusioned life of mankind disconnected from its instincts. Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr. make sure that the narrative not only holds, but that it is indeed an enjoyable...
