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Panther is a 1995 film directed by Mario Van Peebles, from a screenplay adapted by his father, Melvin Van Peebles which was based on his book of the same name. The film is an unapologetically sympathetic dramatization of the story of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, tracing the organization from its founding through its demise in a compressed timeframe. Creative license is taken at some turns to amplify or dial down the significance of selected events, but the general trajectory of the Party and its experiences is still told factually, and the disclaimer placed at the beginning of the film lays claim only to its contents being "based on a true story".
The film is cinematically notable for Marcus Chong's near-mirror image resemblance to the actual Huey P. Newton in the film, as well as for what in the 2000s era might be considered an all-star black U.S. actors' roster, sporting names like Angela Bassett, Chris Tucker, Bobby Brown and even Chris Rock in a rarely-glimpsed 'before they were famous' capacity. Angela Bassett in particular had already played her Betty Shabazz role a few years earlier in the Spike Lee film Malcolm X.
Actors: Anjela Lauren Smith (producer), Anjela Lauren Smith (actress), Anjela Lauren Smith (writer), Bernard Kordieh (director), Bernard Kordieh (writer), Bernard Kordieh (editor), Bernard Kordieh (producer), Aaron Fontaine (writer), Aaron Fontaine (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Jennifer Blanc (actress), Ash R. Shah (producer), Chris Spencer (actor), Duane Whitaker (actor), Duane Whitaker (actor), Renetta G. Amador (miscellaneous crew), Craig Sheffer (actor), Richard Riehle (actor), Ron Perlman (actor), Charles S. Dutton (actor), Ezra Buzzington (actor), Danny Trejo (actor), Erik Betts (actor), Blaine G. Houserman (miscellaneous crew), Danny Woodburn (actor),
Plot: Decorated Vietnam hero Frank Vega returns home only to get shunned by society leaving him without a job or his high school sweetheart. It's not until forty years later when an incident on a commuter bus (where he protects an elderly black man from a pair of skin heads) makes him a local hero where he's suddenly celebrated once again. But his good fortune suddenly turns for the worse when his best friend Klondike is murdered and the police aren't doing anything about it.
Keywords: army-buddy, attempted-robbery, basketball-court, beard, burial, bus, cgi-blood, church, confessional, drive-byActors: Timothy Guest (actor), Teddy Lane Jr. (actor), D'Kristian Lamar (actor), Kenneth I. Brown (producer), Kenneth I. Brown (director), Siaka Massaquoi (actor), Melanie Henderson (actress), Tonya Jones (actress), Chris Brown (actress), Tomari Casellas (actor), Ben McCarthy (actor), Kevin Stevenson (editor), Eric Havard (miscellaneous crew), John Freeman (miscellaneous crew), Michael Glenn (producer),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Guy-Roger Duvert (composer), François Mequer (producer), François Mequer (writer), François Mequer (actor), Lionel Mur (actor), Joffrey Platel (actor), Jawed El Berni (actor), Mathieu Weschler (director), Robert Gomis (actor), Robert Gomis (actor),
Genres: Action, Short,Actors: Juan Fernández (actor), Luis Zahera (actor), Tristán Ulloa (actor), Macarena Gómez (actress), Pedro Casablanc (actor), Antón Reixa (producer), Ginés García Millán (actor), Fernando Cayo (actor), Antonio Onetti (writer), Juana Acosta (actress), Frank Spano (actor), Manuel Riveiro (composer), Pau Cólera (actor), Antonio Mourelos (actor), Xosé Morais (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Erik Betts (actor), Erik Betts (miscellaneous crew), Wendy Delouche (miscellaneous crew), Lisa Marie Hill (miscellaneous crew), Norman J. Grossfeld (producer), Debby Freeman (miscellaneous crew), Rey-Phillip Santos (actor), Alfred Kahn (producer), Alfred Kahn (writer), Clayton J. Barber (actor), Bill Freda (editor), Kelly Farrell (miscellaneous crew), Gil Bettman (miscellaneous crew), Michael Attanasio (producer), Kathryn A. Borland (producer),
Plot: For centuries, each of the various martial arts disciplines declared its techniques superior to those of the competing combat arts. But there existed no forum in which to prove these claims. Finally, the grand masters set aside their differences and formed a governing body, The World Martial Arts Council to determine the greatest martial artist on earth.
Keywords: actor-performing-own-stunts, actor-playing-himself, fight, fighting-arena, health-gauge, interracial-friendship, life-lesson, martial-artist, martial-arts, martial-arts-philosophyActors: Vladimir Episkoposyan (actor), Vyacheslav Razbegaev (actor), Andrey Rostotskiy (director), Olga Mashnaya (actress), James Fenimore Cooper (writer), Elena Kondulaynen (actress), Pavel Abdalov (actor), Georgi Pitskhelauri (actor), Vladimir Badov (actor), Aleksandr Gizgizov (actor), Boris Mironov (actor), Vsevolod Khabarov (actor), Vladimir Pivovarov (actor), Nikolai Karpov (actor), Lora Kvint (composer),
Genres: Adventure,Actors: Andrew Lipschultz (miscellaneous crew), Murray Ord (miscellaneous crew), Dan Curry (miscellaneous crew), Howard Shore (composer), Craig Sheffer (actor), Jean Smart (actress), Kari Wuhrer (actress), Garry Chalk (actor), Ian Tracey (actor), D.B. Sweeney (actor), Jon Polito (actor), Tim Russ (actor), Virginia Madsen (actress), Christine Wilson (miscellaneous crew), Peter E. Berger (editor),
Plot: In this fact-based melodrama, Joe Fisk is a juvenile delinquent who falls in love with Lisa Taylor, a Catholic girl's school student, in an Oregon forest. The two meet by chance when the troubled young man stumbles upon her while being chased by his peers in a training exercise, sees the lovely young girl floating in a small lake as she works on a photography assignment. The two are immediately drawn to each other, but neither of their custodians encourage contact of the opposite sex. However, when their relationship is discovered there is trouble all around, forcing the young lovers to flee. The question then remains: Will they be able to escape the law and other authorities long enough to find happiness?
Keywords: bare-chested-boy, bare-chested-male, boy-in-underwear, catholic, catholic-school, chase, female-nudity, forest, girls'-school, male-underwearMarcus Miller - Bass, Bass Clarinet
Miles Davis, Sal Marquez, Michael "Patches" Stewart - Trumpet
Wayne Shorter - Soprano & Tenor Saxophone
Kenny Garrett, David Sanborn - Alto Saxophone
Everette Harp - Alto & Soprano Saxophone
Kirk Whalum - Tenor saxophone
Jonathan Butler, Hiram Bullock, Dean Brown,
Paul Jackson, Jr., Vernon Reid - Guitar
Philippe Saisse, Christian "Wicked" Wicht - Keyboards
Joe Sample - Piano
Don Alias - Percussion, Conga
Lenny White - Percussion, Drums
Paulinho Da Costa, Steve Thornton - Percussion
Tony Williams, Poogie Bell, Will Calhoun, Michael White - Drums
Steve Ferrone - Drums, Hi Hat, Bass Drum
Andy Narell - Steel Drums