Michael Wright
出生 : 1956-04-30, New York City, New York, USA
略歴
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
国連で通訳として働くシルビアは、謎の人物たちのグー語の会話から、ある人物の暗殺計画を偶然立ち聞きしてしまう。彼女の周りに怪しい人物が暗躍し、シークレット・サービスのトビンが彼女を守る任務につく。
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
Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a group of shoppers hostage (after killing many more of them) before making their demands. Only Rudy, a former mercenary and brother of one of the fugitives, can take out the criminals before more of the hostages die.
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
In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner brother to lead a straight life with his girlfriend.
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
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
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
Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is 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
1963年のブロンクスを舞台に、徒党を組む若者たちの姿を描いた青春映画。イタリア系非行グループ“ワンダラーズ”を主役に、中国人や黒人など多様なグループが登場し、抗争や連帯といった群像劇が綴られるが、ストーリーの起伏には大きく欠ける。後半登場する暴力グループ“ダッキー・ボーイズ”の不気味さに、P・カウフマンの前作「SF／ボディ・スナッチャー」（78）のタッチが見られる。
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.
