Michael Wright
Nacimiento : 1956-04-30, New York City, New York, USA
Historia
Michael Wright (born April 6, 1956) is an American film and television actor, who is best known for his role as Eddie Kane, Jr. in the 1991 Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats. Wright's body of work in television includes the 1983 NBC science fiction miniseries V, the 1984 sequel "V: The Final Battle" and on "V: The Series" as Elias Taylor, TV series "Miami Vice" 1987 episode "The Savage", and on the 1997 HBO series Oz as Omar White from 2001-2003. And he played "Clinton", the leader of The Del Bombers in the cult film The Wanderers. Wright's film roles include the 1987 drama The Principal as Victor Duncan, also starring James Belushi, and the 1994 film Sugar Hill with Wesley Snipes, his most recent film is 2005's The Interpreter. He has also made guest appearances on other TV shows including New York Undercover. In 1982, he starred in Peter Byrne's production of Barrie Keefe's play Barbarians at the SoHo Rep Theater with Gregg Martin and the as yet unknown actor Kevin Spacey.
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Erik Menendez
In August of 1989, brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their abusive parents in their Beverly Hills Mansion. The brothers are victims of graphic sexual abuse and egregious media demonizing and mischaracterizations. This short film is based on the true events surrounding the murder of their parents in hopes to open the publics eyes and start a national campaign.
Officer Ruda
NYPD cop Ruda is a cop during the day and a religious Santerio (High Ranking Priest) of "Black Magic" by night. A curse is placed on the NYPD by the mother of a boy shot by cops. Now the NYPD needs Ruda to help break the curse.
Juan
Nassau County, New York Police detective Jesse turns vigilante as she investigates her brother's murder and enters into a world of crime, corruption, and shocking deception.
First Victim
A coming of age story about an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his dream of becoming a basketball player fails to materialize, he finds himself employed in a supermarket. After his mother is tragically gunned down, Clarence (played by Jackson) is consumed by revenge and takes up a life of crime in order to support his younger brother.
After a prominent judge's daughter dies from taking contaminated Ecstasy, the ensuing political scandal brings a world of grief to the city's street dealers in this gritty actioner. Under threat of being shut down, the city's top two rival dealers must work together to unearth the source of the tainted drug -- or take the fall themselves. Raekwon and Michael Wright star.
In New York City, a young woman forms a curious bond with a lonely older man after they encounter one another on a street corner.
Lou
A realistic depiction of how New York's lucrative construction business is systematically shaken down by minority non-union labor.
Marcus
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Rudy
A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.
Sonny
Siete presos son trasladados para ser ejecutados en la cámara de gas, pero el furgón donde viajan es asaltado. Los presos que sobreviven se fugan y se atrincheran en un centro comercial tomando varios rehenes. El hermano de uno de los fugados, Rudy, es un ex policía convertido en mercenario que vive con su padre en una granja. Este le pedirá que vaya a por su hermano.
Simon Z
Four friends get three million dollars and decide to construct a screenplay of 52 stolen scenes from the greatest movies ever made.
Charley
A former hitman named Bruno steals some cash from his mobster uncle. He plans to go to Tahiti, but things go wrong and he finds himself headed for Vegas via Death Valley in a comandeered airport limousine, pursued by his uncle's henchmen and accompanied by a limo driver and an enigmatic blonde.
Raynathan Skuggs
Relata la historia de una guerra entre bandas callejeras que controlan el tráfico de drogas en Harlem.
Eddie
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.
Victor Duncan
Rick Latimer es un profesor de instituto que no está atravesando por su mejor momento. Su mujer le ha abandonado y tiene problemas con el alcohol. Por si eso no fuera suficiente, ahora ha sido trasladado para ocupar el puesto de rector en el conflictivo colegio de Brandel High, en el que los estudiantes, la mayoría afroamericanos problemáticos, son verdaderos delincuentes que atemorizan a los profesores. Pero Rick no se dejará amedrentar, contando con la ayuda de Jake Phillips, el guarda de seguridad de la escuela.
Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a black American GI on the margins of the law.
Shooter Stevens
Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.
Carlyle
Un campo de entrenamiento, en 1965. Un grupo de seis soldados que esperan las órdenes para ser enviados a Vietnam, pasan su tiempo en burdeles, emborrachándose y burlándose del pasado. Para probar la virilidad de cada uno, los reclutas se permiten un juego violento, físico y verbal, con especial atención a aquellos cuyo color de piel o la perspectiva ante la vida están en desacuerdo "con los estándares" del grupo. Habrá un enfrentamiento especial al saberse que uno de ellos es homosexual.
Jimmy Mills
Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.
Mace
TV movie 1981 Vacationing Georgia construction worker (John Schneider) meets and falls for Manhattan's comely Director of Urban Renewal (Marilu Henner) and despite her initial rejection of him, sets out to build a dream house for both of them.
Melvin Gilford
Inspired by the exploits of New York's Guardian Angels, which began as a band of streetwise young people who formed an anti-crime subway patrol and went on to gain a national reputation and units in major cities around the country, this film unites three New York City youths as leaders of a citizens' patrol tackling gangs terrorizing merchants and local citizens.
Clinton
Nueva York, 1963. En la radio suenan The Four Seasons, Smoke Robinson, The Shirelles y Ben E. King. Las cosas no son fáciles en el Bronx. Los chicos forman bandas callejeras, como la de los Wanderers, integrada por los chicos de origen italiano. Las diferencias con las bandas rivales, a veces de otras razas, son irreconciliables. Y la violencia es el camino más directo para resolverlas.
Ernie Rays
When two detectives are fed up with the system that's not working, they seek the help of a martial arts master to bring Justice to the Streets.
