"Richard Lawson" Filmography
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For Colored Girls
2010, USA
- Actors: Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Whoopi Goldberg, Macy Gray, Michael Ealy, Omari Hardwick, Richard Lawson, Hill Harper, Khalil Kain, Rayna Tharani, Jaycee Williams, Thomas 'Deuce' Jessup, May Zayan, John Crow, Michael Cory Davis, Jason Graham, Ayo Sorrells, Kendrick Cross, Joe Amato, Ambrya Underwood, Jackie Prucha, Holly Crawshaw, Roevely Rancell, David Feigenbaum
- Genre: Drama
- Director(s): Tyler Perry
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Available languages:
- English English.
The movie is based on Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." Unlike the original play which featured only 7 women known by colors performing the collection of 20 poems, the movie has given each of the 20 characters names. Each of the poems deal with intense issues that particularly impact women in a thought-provoking commentary on what it means to be a female of color in the world.
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Guess Who
2004, USA
- Actors: Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana, Judith Scott, Hal Williams, Kellee Stewart, Robert Curtis Brown, RonReaco Lee, Paula Newsome, Phil Reeves, Sherri Shepherd, Nicole Sullivan, Jessica Cauffiel, JoNell Kennedy, Niecy Nash, Kimberly Scott, Denise Dowse, Richard Lawson, J. Kenneth Campbell, Chad Gabriel, Alex Morris, James Eckhouse, Angel Viera, Amanda Tosch, Lisa Arch, Archie Hahn III, Carl Ciarfalio, Nicholaus Iamaleava, Andy Morrow, Bryan Anthony
- Genre: Comedy, Romance
- Director(s): Kevin Rodney Sullivan
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Available languages:
- English English.
Percy and Marilyn are renewing their vows for their anniversary, and their daughter Theresa brings her boyfriend Simon for them to meet. Unbeknownst to her parents, the kids plan to announce their engagement during the weekend. The Jones family is Black; Theresa neglects to tell them Simon is White. Race complicates Percy's general mistrust of any boyfriend, so he instigates an investigation of Simon, discovering he's recently lost his job and hasn't told Theresa. Mistrust rears its ugly head, and in the process of Theresa and Simon's argument, Marilyn and Percy fall out. What can the men do to cross the divide between each other and between men and women? Will anyone be exchanging vows?
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Wag the Dog
1996, USA
- Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary, Willie Nelson, Andrea Martin, Kirsten Dunst, William H. Macy, John Michael Higgins, Suzie Plakson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Belson, Suzanne Cryer, Jason Cottle, David Koechner, Harland Williams, Sean Masterson, Bernard Hocke, Jenna Byrne, Maurice Woods, Roebuck 'Pops' Staples, Phil Morris, Chris Ellis, Ed Morgan, J. Patrick McCormack, Jennifer Manley, Edrie Warner, Richard Lawson, Drena De Niro, Alberto Vazquez
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Director(s): Barry Levinson
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Available languages:
- English English.
After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisers contacts a top Hollywood producer in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass media.
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Streets of Fire
1983, USA
- Actors: Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Richard Lawson, Rick Rossovich, Bill Paxton, Lee Ving, Stoney Jackson, Grand L. Bush, Robert Townsend, Mykelti Williamson, Elizabeth Daily, Lynne Thigpen, Marine Jahan, Ed Begley Jr., John Dennis Johnston, Harry Beer, Olivia Brown, Kip Waldo, Peter Jason, Matthew Laurance, Sarah Marten, Tamu Blackwell, Ric Moreno, Antonie Becker, Elizabeth Jordan, Susan Cheng
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Music, Romance
- Director(s): Walter Hill
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Available languages:
- English English.
Rock and Roll singer is taken captive by a motorcycle gang in a strange world that seems to be a cross of the 1950's and the present or future. Her ex-boyfriend returns to town and to find her missing and goes to her rescue.
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Poltergeist
1981, USA
- Actors: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins, Heather O'Rourke, Michael McManus, Virginia Kiser, Martin Casella, Richard Lawson, Zelda Rubinstein, Lou Perryman, Clair E. Leucart, James Karen, Dirk Blocker, Allan Graf, Joseph Walsh, Helen Baron, Noel Conlon, Robert Broyles, Sonny Landham, William Vail, Jeffrey Bannister, Phil Stone, Craig Simmons
- Genre: Horror, Thriller
- Director(s): Tobe Hooper
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Available languages:
- English English.
A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter.
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Coming Home
1978, USA
- Actors: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty, Mary Gregory, Kathleen Miller, Beeson Carroll, Willie Tyler, Louis Carello, Charles Cyphers, Olivia Cole, Tresa Hughes, Bruce French, Mary Jackson, Tim Pelt, Richard Lawson, Rita Taggart, Claudie Watson, Sally Frei, Tony Santoro, Pat Corley, Gwen Van Dam, Jim Klein, Tokyo Ernie, Raul Bayardo, Stacey Pickren, James Kindelon, Joey Faustine
- Genre: Drama, War
- Director(s): Hal Ashby
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Available languages:
- English English.
Sally Bender is the wife of a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. He is sent over to Vietnam, and Sally is alone. With nothing else to do, she decides to volunteer at a local veteran's hospital, where she meets Luke, who went to high school with Sally. Luke was wounded and is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. When Sally begins to fall in love with Luke, she has to make a crucial decision about her life.
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Dirty Harry
1970, USA
- Actors: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, Andrew Robinson, John Larch, John Mitchum, Mae Mercer, Lyn Edgington, Ruth Kobart, Woodrow Parfrey, Josef Sommer, William Paterson, James Nolan, Maurice Argent, Jo De Winter, Craig Kelly, Ann Bowen, George Burrafato, Joy Carlin, Bill Couch, Jana D'Amico, Tony Dario, Diane Darnell, Diana Davidson, Vince Deadrick Sr., Chuck Dorsett, Al Dunlap, Larry Duran, Denise Dyer
- Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
- Director(s): Don Siegel
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Available languages:
- English English.
In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Harry Callahan (known as Dirty Harry by his peers through his reputation handling of homicidal cases) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez to track down Scorpio and stop him. Using humiliation and cat and mouse type of games against Callahan, Scorpio is put to the test with the cop with a dirty attitude.