Michael Schultz
Nacimiento : 1938-11-10, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Historia
Schultz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Katherine Frances (née Leslie), a factory worker, and German American Leo Schultz, an insurance salesman.
After his undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Marquette University, he attended Princeton University, where in 1966 he directed his first play, a production of Waiting for Godot. He joined the Negro Ensemble Company in 1968, which brought him to Broadway in 1969. His breakthrough was directing Lorraine Hansberry's To Be Young, Gifted and Black, which he restaged for television in 1972.
Schultz' earliest film projects combined low comedy with profound social comment (Honeybaby, Honeybaby and Cooley High), reaching a peak with the ensemble comedy Car Wash (1976) and Which Way Is Up? (1977), starring Richard Pryor.
In 1978, Schultz took the reins of the musical Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with the largest budget ever entrusted to an African-American film director to that date. However, upon its release, the project was a commercial and critical failure. Schultz would go on to make prominent films such as Scavenger Hunt (1979), Carbon Copy (1981), and Disorderlies (1987).
More recently, Schultz has worked in television, piloting episodes of such style-conscious series as The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and Picket Fences, as well as an abundance of made-for-TV movies.
In 1991, Schultz was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.
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The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended racial and social barriers with his honest, irreverent and biting humor.
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Documental sobre la vida y obra del cómico y actor Richard Pryor.
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A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form the perspective of Black film makers.
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An adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes' self-help novel, chronciling a woman's struggle to come to terms with her legacy of abuse, addiction and poverty.
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In the first film in the series, in May 1908, famed Professor Henry Jones Sr. is invited to give lectures all over the world. He takes along his wife and son, and invites his former tutor Miss Helen Seymour to teach Henry Jr. during the trip. Their first stop is Cairo, Egypt. When Junior, who prefers to be called 'Indy' and Miss Seymour visit the pyramids, they are invited by T.E. Lawrence (another former student of hers) to join an archaeological dig. When the mummy disappears and a priceless headpiece is stolen, young Indy gets his first taste of adventure. On their next stop in Tangiers, the family stays with Professor Jones' former class mate Walter Harris. Indy befriends a young slave named Omar who belongs to Emily Keen. The two of them get into trouble when they Indy insists on visiting the market place to see a salted head displayed on a pole. Caught by slave traders, they are end up at an auction from which only Harris can attempt to rescue them.
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In the sixteenth film in the series, in 1917, Indiana Jones is working to get Austrian deserters safely to the allies side in the Italian Alps. In his spare time, he is wooing an Italian beauty named Guiletta. When he finds out another man is vying for her attention, Indy and his new pal, ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway, make plans to crush Indiana's competitor by smothering Guiletta with presents and compliments. Afterwards, Indiana is begrudgingly ordered to Casablanca to find a traitor who is selling arms to the Berber rebels. Traveling incognito, he is joined by American novelist Edith Wharton and journalist Lowell Thomas. Indy and Edith soon find themselves attracted to each other despite their age difference.
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Love and life can never be planned. That's the message of the heartwarming love story of Susan Morton, a single mother facing a terminal illness who finds unexpected romance and a larger life lesson at a most difficult time. Susan moves to California with her daughter after being diagnosed with cancer. Enter young lover Michael Blake, who teaches Susan that all of life is a precious gift.
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Unos ladrones de bancos que habían huido de la policía invaden una mansión y toman como rehenes a los propietarios.
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Dos amigos toman prestado un auto convertible, y se dirigen al sur de California buscando algo de diversión bajo el sol.
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In the fourth film in the series, in 1910's Russia, a few acts of clumsiness puts Indy at odds with his father who is greatly displeased with Indy. Indy runs away into the Russian countryside and wakes in the morning on a haystack. He encounters colorful Gypsies, fierce Imperial Cossack troops, and an odd, cantankerous old man named Leo Tolstoy, who is in full agreement that "hell" is other people. Later, in Greece, Indy meets Nikos Kazantzakis, the writer who would some day write Zorba the Greek.
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In the twenty-second and final film in the series, in 1920's Hollywood, Indy is working as assistant to Hollywood movie mogul Carl Laemmle, who charges him to get notoriously megalomaniacal director Erich Von Stroheim to complete his latest epic on time and on budget... or else!
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A five-year-old named Grace creates an imaginary friend, because her parents only pay attention to the new baby, Tony. Now at 35, his sole friend reappears to help her.
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A young black reporter begins to lose his identity.
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After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rookie and three ex-cops, come to his rescue.
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Film highlighting the courtroom antics of the jury.
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Tarzán va a Nueva York para rescatar al chimpancé Chita, que ha sido capturado por un malvado experimentador de animales. Allí, él se une a Jane, una taxista e hija de un ex policía privado, que ayudan a Tarzán a liberar a Chita y a sus amigos. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Dyan Cannon portrays Annie Hackett, an aspiring singer and suburban mother of two, who rocks and rolls her way through her household chores. When one of her songs is bought by a hip record executive for his label's biggest star, Darcy X (Dynasty's Heather Locklear), Annie is unexpectedly drafted into doing the demo record. To everyone's surprise, Annie's demo version becomes a hit, and Annie finds herself being groomed into a sexy Madonna-like idol! But the fun and fantasy of Annie's hot new image hit a sour not when she is told that her identity, her past - and her children - must remain a secret!
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A legally dead police detective decides to battle crime as a masked superhero.
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Albert Deninson, un anciano millonario de Palm Beach, ha dejado la silla de ruedas y se encuentra en la ciudad. Podría parecer que su mejora se debe a que ha tenido los mejores médicos y cuidados pero, en realidad... tiene a los peores pero más divertidos, los famosos raperos ”The fat boys” qie siguen sus propias reglas médicas al cuidar al millonario y frágil Dennison y prueban que la risa es la mejor terapia.
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Dos viajeros del tiempo que vienen del año 2586 aparecen en la vida de Scott, un profesor de historia que investiga una vieja fotografía. Uno de los viajeros en el tiempo está decidido a cambiar el curso de la historia, mientras que el otro trata de detenerlo. La fascinación de Scott por el Viejo Oeste es muy útil cuando todos vuelven a 1886.
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Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell needs more money to press more copies, he borrows it from a street hustler and soon regrets his decision.
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Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell needs more money to press more copies, he borrows it from a street hustler and soon regrets his decision.
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Leroy Green es un joven negro devoto de las artes marciales que idolatra a Bruce Lee. Pero hay dos tipos que le buscan para destruirlo física y psicológicamente. Uno de ellos es Sambo y el otro Arjadian, que además persiguen a la novia de Leroy, Laura Charles que acaba de presentar un disco en el mercado.
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Navin Johnson heads to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of his pen pal, Marie. On the way, he runs across a gang of hobos whose leader, Diesel, takes him to Las Vegas after learning of his skills at poker.
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This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a leader in the black community.
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Earth, Wind & Fire: In Concert es un DVD de un concierto de la banda Earth, Wind & Fire que fue lanzado en 1984 en Vestron y reeditado en DVD en Eagle Rock Entertainment en 2008. El concierto fue grabado en el Coliseo de Oakland El 30-31 de diciembre de 1981 para ser transmitido por HBO .
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Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.
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Walter Whitney tiene todo lo que un hombre puede desear, una buena casa, un Rolls Royce, un trabajo como alto ejecutivo, es miembro de un exclusivo club de golf. Sin embargo también tiene problemas, por ejemplo, su esposa Vivian que está más preocupada de su vida social que de su vida sexual, su hijastra Mary Ann, que rechaza reconocerlo como padre, o su suegro Nelson Longhurst, que además es el presidente de la compañía en la que trabaja y que no deja de meterse en sus asuntos domésticos. Sin embargo, estos problemas pasan a ser menores cuando se presenta en su oficina Roger Porter, un joven de color que dice ser su hijo
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Cuando la falta de presupuesto obliga a cerrar un orfanato de Filadelfia, Vivian Prry decide ayudar a ocho alumnos de educación especial llevándoles a la granja de sus tíos a las afueras de Seattle. Desesperada por encontrar un conductor- mecánico de autobuses, se encontrará con Joe Braxton, un desesperado ex-timador que odia a las mujeres y a los niños. (FILMAFFINITY)
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El viejo Sr. Parker ha hecho millones inventando y vendiendo juegos. Al comienzo de la película, él muere y sus familiares se reúnen para la lectura de la voluntad. Sin embargo, el viejo Sr. Parker es un jugador del juego hasta el final, y su voluntad estipula una búsqueda del tesoro para determinar qué familiar recibirá la herencia. El ganador de la búsqueda del tesoro recibe todo el dinero, el resto no obtiene nada.
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Billy Shears, quien conoce a la banda “Lonely Hearts Club Band” es el nieto del famoso Sergeant Pepper. Será el protector del instrumento mágico de la banda, intentando evitar que los chicos malos liderados por el magnate de la música B.D. Brockhurst lo robe.
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Richard Pryor desempeña tres roles: un trabajador agrícola acosado y hambriento de sexo llamado Leroy Jones; el viejo padre Rufus del trabajador agrícola; y el predicador hipócrita de la ciudad, el Reverendo Lenox Thomas, y Pryor nunca ha sido tan escandalosamente divertido. Las vidas y el amor de estos tres hombres se cruzan y se entrecruzan cuando Leroy intenta volver a encarrilar su vida.
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Esta película está basada en la historia real de Wendell Scott, el primer campeón negro de carreras de coches de serie de Estados Unidos.
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Una visión mundana, irreverente pero cariñosa, de un día normal en un túnel de lavado de coches de Los Ángeles. Una obra coral que entremezcla las vidas de empleados clientes y transeúntes. Interpretada por un elenco de actores, la mayoría de los cuales son relativamente desconocidos para los espectadores, y entre los que destaca un conjunto de estrellas invitadas que interpretan brillantes papeles episódicos, como George Carlin, el "Profesor" Irwin Corey, las Pointer Sisters y Richar Prior, que da vida a Daddy Rich, un extravagante reverendo que predica las bondades del dólar. "Car Wash" puede considerarse la primera película "disco" del mundo. La banda sonora, que suena casi sin interrupción, original de Norman Whitfield se ha convertido en un superventas
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En los años sesenta, un grupo de amigos, alumnos de la escuela superior Cooley, pasan los días estudiando y haciendo gamberradas propias de su edad. Pero un mal día, la muerte de uno de ellos en circunstancias violentas, acaba con las bromas y hace madurar a muchos.
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Russell B. Parker, a former vaudeville hoofer, is a man of big dreams but small ambitions. He hardly works at all in fact, often spending the time incessantly playing checkers with his friend, William Jenkins. Parker lives with Theopolis and Bobby, his two unemployed sons, and Adele, his hard-working daughter. The ghost of his dead wife, a woman who drove herself into an early grave working to support the family, nags at his conscience.
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Liv, a mercenary, is drawn into a mission to rescue a kidnapped politician. He travels to the volatile Mideast and is assisted by Laura, a translator, where their lives are imperiled.
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A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.
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A black radical activist and a young White woman find themselves drawn to one another during the politically and racially-charged atmosphere of early 1970s America.
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A documentary focusing on the life and career of actor George Segal.
