Tag Archives: white male pretending to be black

True Romance

IMDB Rating: 7.80
46902 votes

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Clarence Worley, a penniless hipster in Detroit with a love for Elvis meets a mysterious hooker paid to meet him named Alabama on his birthday in a theater at night. Falling in love, he makes it his mission to dispose of her past, namely her violent pimp, Drexl Spivey. Defeating him and unknowingly taking a vast fortune of Cocaine, the two fight to sell the white gold in Los Angeles as Drexl's associates fight to reclaim it in a bloody romantic thriller full to the brim with style.
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Clarence WorleyChristian Slater
Alabama WhitmanPatricia Arquette
Dick RitchieMichael Rapaport
Also posted in 1993, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Trading Places

IMDB Rating: 7.30
19486 votes

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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe's employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.
Actors
ColemanDenholm Elliott
Louis Winthorpe IIIDan Aykroyd
Duke & Duke EmployeeMaurice Woods
Also posted in 1983, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Undercover Brother

IMDB Rating: 5.80
7945 votes

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An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white organization, The Man, defending the values of the black people in North America. When the Afro-American candidate Gen. Warren Boutwell (Billy Dee Williams) has a weird behavior in his presidential campaign, the Undercover Brother (Eddie Griffin) is hired to work undercover in the white organization and find what happened with the potential candidate.
Actors
Mr. FeatherChris Kattan
White She DevilDenise Richards
Undercover Brother/Anton JacksonEddie Griffin
Also posted in 2002, Action, Comedy | Comments (12)

Next Friday

IMDB Rating: 5.10
5413 votes

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Debo has escaped from prison and is looking to get revenge on Craig. So Craig's dad takes him to Rancho Cucamonga to hide out with his Uncle Elroy and cousin Day-Day, who moved to the suburbs after winning the lottery. But once he gets there, Craig and Day-Day have a set of suburban misadventures that make his South Central experiences look tame.
Actors
Craig JonesIce Cube
D'WanaTamala Jones
Day-Day JonesMike Epps
Also posted in 2000, Comedy | Comments (10)

Four Brothers

IMDB Rating: 6.80
17105 votes

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In Detroit, when the beloved citizen Evelyn Mercer is murdered in a store heist, her four dangerous stepsons come to her funeral. Bobby Mercer, Angel Mercer and Jack Mercer join the regenerated ex-union leader Jeremiah Mercer, and they decide to investigate the murder. They disclose that her execution was intentional, and resolve to find the criminals by themselves.
Actors
Bobby MercerMark Wahlberg
Angel MercerTyrese Gibson
Jeremiah MercerAndré Benjamin
Also posted in 2005, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Be Cool

IMDB Rating: 5.60
16676 votes

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Streetwise mobster-turned-movie producer Chili Palmer is back, but this time Chili has abandoned the fickle movie industry and veered into the music business, tangling with Russian mobsters and gangsta rappers and taking a talented, feisty young singer named Linda Moon under his wing. From the recording studio to an Aerosmith concert to the MTV Music Awards, he manipulates events to watch them play out the Chili way, using his signature blend of wiseguy skills and negotiation tactics. It's a dangerous business, and everyone's looking for their next big hit.
Actors
Chili PalmerJohn Travolta
Edie AthensUma Thurman
RajiVince Vaughn
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Crime, Music | Comments (0)

Bringing Down the House

IMDB Rating: 5.50
9720 votes

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Peter Sanderson is a divorced, straight-laced, uptight attorney who still loves his ex-wife and can't figure out what he did wrong to make her leave him. However, Peter's trying to move on, and he's smitten with a brainy, bombshell barrister he's been chatting with online. However, when she comes to his house for their first face-to-face, she isn't refined, isn't Ivy League, and isn't even a lawyer. Instead, it's Charlene, a prison escapee who's proclaiming her innocence and wants Peter to help her clear her name. But Peter wants nothing to do with her, prompting the loud and shocking Charlene to turn Peter's perfectly ordered life upside down, jeopardizing his effort to get back with his wife and woo a billion dollar client.
Actors
Peter SandersonSteve Martin
Charlene MortonQueen Latifah
Howie RottmanEugene Levy
Also posted in 2003, Comedy | Comments (7)

8 Mile

IMDB Rating: 6.60
29250 votes

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A rap version of "Saturday Night Fever." B-Rabbit, a wannabe rapper from the wrong side of Detroit's 8 Mile, has problems: he dumps his girlfriend when she tells him she's pregnant; to save money to make a demo tape, he moves into his alcoholic mom's trailer; his job's a dead end, and he's just choked at the local head-to-head rap contest. Things improve when he meets Alex - an aspiring model headed for New York - and a fast-talking pal promises to set up the demo. Then new setbacks: Alex isn't faithful, mom rejects him, rifts surface with his friends, and he's mugged by rivals. Everything hinges on the next rap showdown at the club. Can B-Rabbit pull truth out of his cap?
Actors
Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith, Jr.Eminem
Stephanie SmithKim Basinger
David 'Future' PorterMekhi Phifer
Also posted in 2002, Drama, High IMDB rating, Music | Comments (8)