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The Prince of Guilt? (2003)

Actors: Charles W. Gray (actor), Peter Pasco (actor), Andy Marshall (actor), Andre Mayers (producer), Andre Mayers (director), Hilliard Guess (actor), DeJuan Guy (actor), Nicholl Jones (actress), Rob Adams (actor), Kelsey Grizzard (actor), Stephanie L. Moore (actress), Sally Spaide (actress), Damone Arnold (composer), Terrence Robinson (producer), Dave Lifshin (producer),

Plot: After completing college, Armstrong Prince returns home to his family and friends. The neighbourhood is not much to look at and there's not much to appreciate, but it's his childhood home and he's proud of his heritage. With a promising career ahead of him and many unlikely accomplishments under his belt, he quickly becomes everybody's favourite son. But, that all changes when a young girl is raped and Armstrong is forced into a very peculiar situation where the community is divided. Everyone begins to wonder whether or not honesty will prevail.

Genres: Drama, Short,

Midnight Blue (2000)

Actors: Ellen Cleghorne (actress), Reynaldo Rey (actor), Bobby McGee (actor), Bobby Mardis (director), Bobby Mardis (actor), Jon E. Edwards (miscellaneous crew), Roy Campanella II (producer), Roy Fegan (actor), Bennet Guillory (actor), Meta Golding (actress), Kimberly Ogletree (producer), Mailon Rivera (actor), Jimmy Woodard (actor), Angelle Brooks (actress), Joseph C. Phillips (actor),

Plot: Jessica Saunders (Angelle Brookes) is smart, attractive and working for two brothers, the philandering Tom Jordan (Mailon Rivera) and stable Luke Jordan (Joseph C. Phillips) who are fighting for control of the family business, Jordan Cosmetics.

Genres: Comedy,

Stay Hungry (1976)

Actors: Joanna Cassidy (actress), Bob Rafelson (actor), Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor), Garry Goodrow (actor), R.G. Armstrong (actor), Joe Spinell (actor), Woodrow Parfrey (actor), Ed Begley Jr. (actor), Dennis Burkley (actor), Scatman Crothers (actor), Robert Englund (actor), Dennis Fimple (actor), Jeff Bridges (actor), Bob Rafelson (producer), Sally Field (actress),

Plot: A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym "Olympic", where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universum championships a month ahead. The rich sunny-boy Craig Blake is brought in by the syndicate as a dummy to buy the gym. But then he starts to like the people and falls in love with Joe's friend Marie-Tate.

Keywords: actor-breaking-typecast, actress-breaking-typecast, bare-butt, bare-midriff, based-on-novel, birmingham-alabama, black-panties, body-building, bound-and-gagged, bra-less
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: If you've got an appetite for life:

Lord Shango (1975)

Actors: Ann Kindberg (producer), Wally Taylor (actor), Marlene Clark (actress), Lawrence Cook (actor), Stanley Greene (actor), George T. Norris (editor), Bill Overton (actor), Ethel Ayler (actress), Steve Bono (producer), Ray Marsh (director), Ella Mitchell (actress), Maurice Woods (actor), Vincent Albert DiStefano (producer), John R. Russell (actor), Paul Carter Harrison (writer),

Genres: Drama, Horror,

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Actors: Rance Howard (actor), Strother Martin (actor), Wayne Rogers (actor), Harry Dean Stanton (actor), Clifton James (actor), George Kennedy (actor), Paul Newman (actor), Lou Antonio (actor), Robert Donner (actor), James Gammon (actor), Joe Don Baker (actor), Chuck Hicks (actor), Dennis Hopper (actor), Anthony Zerbe (actor), Ralph Waite (actor),

Plot: Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are!" Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks.

Keywords: abuse, against-the-odds, against-the-system, aimlessness, alcoholism, anti-conformity, anti-hero, antihero, arrogance, atheist
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: "What we've got here is failure to communicate." On the chain gang, they'd seen every kind of man...but Luke became a legend. Sometimes, "Nothing" can be a really Cool Hand. No one can eat fifty eggs. The man...and the motion picture that simply do not conform. He was a cool customer. . .until the law made it hot for him!

Quotes:

Dragline: He's a natural born world-shaker.

Dragline: He was smiling... That's right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn't know it 'fore, they could tell right then that they weren't a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Oh, Luke. He was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he's a natural-born world-shaker.

Dragline: [watching sexy girl wash a car] My Lord, whatever I done, don't strike me blind for another couple of minutes.

Dragline: That's my darling Luke. He grins like a baby but bites like a gator.

Luke: Well that oughta be easy for a genuine son of a bitch.

Boss Paul: That ditch is Boss Kean's ditch. And I told him that dirt in it's your dirt. What's your dirt doin' in his ditch?::Luke: I don't know, Boss.::Boss Paul: You better get in there and get it out, boy.

[Why he was cutting the heads off parking meters]::Luke: Small town, not much to do in the evenin'.

Dragline: Anything so innocent and built like that just gotta be named Lucille.

Carr: Any man playing grabass or fightin' in the building spends a night in the box.

Carr: Them clothes got laundry numbers on them. You remember your number and always wear the ones that has your number. Any man forgets his number spends a night in the box. These here spoons you keep with you. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. There's no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box. First bell's at five minutes of eight when you will get in your bunk. Last bell is at eight. Any man not in his bunk at eight spends the night in the box. There is no smoking in the prone position in bed. To smoke you must have both legs over the side of your bunk. Any man caught smoking in the prone position in bed... spends a night in the box. You get two sheets. Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top... the top sheet on the bottom... and the bottom sheet you turn in to the laundry boy. Any man turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box. No one'll sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sitting on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don't bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud talking spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me. I'm Carr, the floor walker. I'm responsible for order in here. Any man don't keep order spends a night in...::Luke: ...the box.::Carr: I hope you ain't going to be a hard case.::Luke: [Smiles, shakes head] .