Michael Wright
출생 : 1956-04-30, New York City, New York, USA
약력
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
경찰 제임스는 총을 자주 발포해서 자주 문제가 된다. 어느 날 호출을 받고 출동을 해서 용의자가 총을 들고 있는 것을 보고 자신도 총을 쏘지만, 쓰러진 용의자에게서 총은 발견되지 않는다. 며칠 뒤 두 남자가 여자에게 총을 겨누고 협박한다는 신고를 받고 출동하지만, 이미 여자는 죽고 그 자리에는 쓰레기를 버리러 나왔던 네네가 있었다. 제임스는 네네에게 움직이지 말라고 했지만 제대로 알아듣지 못한 네네가 움직이자, 손에 든 워크맨을 총으로 착각한 제임스가 네네에게 총을 겨누게 되는데...
Juan
술을 입에 달고 사는 경찰관 제시는 지나친 음주로 인해 남편은 물론이고 아이들과도 헤어져 마약 때문에 정신이 이상한 엄마, 야구 카드 수집에 빠진 백수 오빠와 같이 살고 있다. 정당방위라고 주장하지만, 과잉진압을 해대는 그녀 덕분에 상관은 언제나 골머리를 앓고 있으며, 술을 끊지 못하는 그녀에게 알콜중독자 모임에 나가라고 권유하지만, 제시는 콧방귀만 뀔 뿐 상관의 말을 무시한다. 그러던 어느 날 그녀에게 한 통의 전화가 걸려왔고, 이후 엄마와 함께 찾아간 경찰서에서 오빠가 사고 때문에 죽었음을 알게 된다. 제시는 오빠의 장례식을 치른 뒤, 엄마가 그에게 보험을 들어놓은 사실을 알고 보험회사를 찾아가지만, 오빠와 같이 어울려 다니던 랄프가 보험금을 타갔다는 말을 듣게 된다. 유명한 건달 중 한 명인 랄프가 오빠를 죽이고 보험금을 빼돌렸다고 믿은 제시는 한달음에 랄프가 있는 곳을 수소문하여 그를 찾아가는데…
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
아프리카 태생인 UN 통역사 실비아 브룸이 그녀 외 극소수만이 알고 있는 언어로 아프리카 정치 지도자의 목숨을 위협하는 것을 엿들었다고 강력히 주장하면서 사건은 시작된다. 연방요원 토빈 켈러의 보호를 받게 되면서 그녀의 상황은 더욱 더 끔찍해진다. 그녀의 미심쩍은 과거와 그녀가 비밀스럽게 국제적으로 연결 되어 있다는 사실을 파헤치게 되면서 그녀가 음모 속으로 직접 뛰어들지 않았나 하고 더욱 의심하게 되고, 매 순간마다 그는 그녀를 더욱더 의심스럽게 만드는 증거들을 찾아내게 된다.
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
로멜로(Roemello Skuggs: 웨슬리 스나입스 분)는 고등학교를 1등으로 졸업한 수재였으나 태어나서 자란 할렘의 영향으로 어두운 세계로 빠져 들어 그의 형 레이와 함께 작은 마약조직을 이룬다. 마약때문에 그의 어머니도 잃고 아버지도 폐인이 된 상태에서 그의 부모를 그렇게 만든 거스(Gus Molino: 아베 비고다 분) 일당에 대한 반감을 감추고 그들과 거래를 한다. 그러나 그들과의 거래에서 문제가 생기면서 어릴 적부터의 친구인 릭키(Ricky Goggles: 스티브 해리스 분)가 거스 일당에게 죽음을 당하는 사건이 발생한다. 거스 일당과 문제가 커지면서 거스 일당은 로멜로의 목숨을 노리고 사귀던 멜리샤(Melissa: 테레사 랜들 분)는 릭키의 죽음을 목격하고 어린 소년까지 죽자 그녀는 로멜로 곁을 떠난다. 로멜로는 그런 세계에서 발을 빼려 하지만 형인 레이가 극구 말린다. 레이는 그가 증오하던 폐인이 된 아버지가 아편 과다 복용으로 죽자 거스 일당을 모조리 죽여 버리고 로멜로를 만나 떠나지 말고 함께 일할 것을 종용한다. 둘은 다투게 되고 총이 오발하여 로멜로가 쓰러지며 그가 죽인 것으로 안 이는 스스로 목숨을 끊는다. 그 후 로멜로는 목숨을 건져 새 생활을 시작한다.
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
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
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.
