Michael Wright
Nascimento : 1956-04-30, New York City, New York, USA
História
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
Houve uma ameaça de morte ao chefe de estado africano, e a intérprete, Silvia, ouviu tudo. A ameaça foi feita em uma língua africana pouco conhecida, e Silvia se vê em uma conspiração internacional em que todos desconfiam dela.
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
Prisioneiros fugitivos aterrorizam shopping e fazem vários reféns. A situação foge de controle e o mercenário Rudy Ray é chamado para resolver o problema, já que seu irmão é um dos criminosos. Conhecido também como Vingança à Queima Roupa.
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
Após ter lutado para se tornar o mais poderoso senhor das drogas do Harlem, Roemello Skugs decide mudar de vida. E descobre ser mais difícil sair da vida do crime do que chegar ao topo do submundo.
Eddie
No final dos anos 50, um quinteto de jovens negros pobres chamado “The Five Heartbeats” faz uma mistura de sons e estilos do Rock, Soul ao R&B. Depois de um começo conturbado, o grupo torna-se uma sensação do mundo Pop. No decorrer do caminho, o grupo aprende muitas lições duras sobre a realidade da indústria musical. Não é só o racismo que pode destruir a integridade de um grupo inteiro, mas a ganância também .
Victor Duncan
Rick Latimer (James Belushi) é um professor que consegue o emprego de diretor da Brandel High, uma escola com péssima reputação. Na verdade esta transferência foi um castigo, por Latimer ter agredido o namorado da sua esposa, apesar de Rick e sua mulher já estarem em processo de divórcio. Os alunos da Brandel são na maioria afro-americanos e latinos e vários já foram expulsos de outros colégios. Jake Phillips (LOuis Gossett Jr.), o chefe da segurança da escola, logo ensina para o novo diretor como as coisas funcionam em Brandel. Porém Rick não quer aceitar de forma nenhuma que o colégio continue sendo um antro de violência e vendas de drogas. Ele reúne os alunos para uma assembléia e diz que toda a bandalheira reinante em Brandel acabou. Isto faz com que alunos mais rebeldes de revoltem, especialmente o violento Victor Duncan (Michael Wright), que é chefe de uma gangue.
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
Sexo, álcool e brigas são tudo na vida dos membros de algumas gangues, o filme mostra toda a rotina violenta e, às vezes, até romântica por trás das gangues que assolavam as ruas de New York na década de 60.
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.
