With only one major star (Denzel Washington), an appealing cast of fresh unknowns, and a winning emphasis of substance over self-indulgent style, Boaz Yakin's Remember the Titans is, like Rudy before it, a football movie that will be fondly remembered by anyone who sees it. Set in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971, the fact-based story begins with the integration of black and white ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney VideoStarring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Donald FaisonDirected By: Boaz Yakin
Philadelphia wasn't the first movie about AIDS (it followed such worthy independent films as Parting Glances and Longtime Companion), but it was the first Hollywood studio picture to take AIDS as its primary subject. In that sense, Philadelphia is a historically important film. As such, it's worth remembering that director Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard, ...
Manufacturer: Sony PicturesStarring: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman, Karen FinleyDirected By: Jonathan Demme
Starring Academy Award(R)-winner Denzel Washington (Best Actor, TRAINING DAY, 2001) and multi-talented Whitney Houston (WAITING TO EXHALE), here's a delightful romantic comedy to send spirits soaring! Washington plays a charming angel named Dudley who's sent to earth to help a young minister (Courtney B. Vance -- DANGEROUS MINDS) and his beautiful wife (Houston) revive their marriage! But things ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney VideoStarring: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance, Gregory Hines, Jenifer LewisDirected By: Penny Marshall
One of the very best films about the Civil War, this instant classic from 1989 is also one of the few films to depict the participation of African American soldiers in Civil War combat. Based in part on the books Lay This Laurel by Lincoln Kirstein and One Gallant Rush by Peter Burchard, the film also draws from the letters of Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick), the ...
Manufacturer: Sony PicturesStarring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Jihmi KennedyDirected By: Edward Zwick
Filmmaker Spike Lee, star Denzel Washington (the New York, Boston and Chicago Film Critics' choice as 1992's Best Actor) and other talents vividly portray the life and times of the visionary leader. "One of the decade's best and most important films." (Arch Campbell, WRC-TV/Washington D.C.)
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Angela Bassett, O.L. Duke, Al Freeman Jr., Sonny Jim Gaines, Albert Hall
Manufacturer: Rabbit EarsStarring: Denzel Washington, B.B. King
Released in late 1999, The Bone Collector was originally promoted as a thriller in the tradition of The Silence of the Lambs and Seven, suggesting that it would earn a place among those earlier, better films. Nice try, but no cigar. The Bone Collector settles instead for mere competence and the modest rewards of a well-handled formula. With a terrific cast at his ...
Manufacturer: Universal StudiosStarring: Olivia Birkelund, Daniel Brochu, James Bulleit, Desmond Campbell, Bobby Cannavale
Despite rave reviews as one of the most stylish and intelligent detective pictures in a number of years, this 1995 adaptation of Walter Mosley's novel never found a mass audience. Too bad, because Carl Franklin's film is nearly perfect in every way, from its rich, shadowy look to its depiction of life in post-World War II black America (L.A.-style) to the acting of Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, ...
Manufacturer: Columbia/Tri-StarStarring: Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle, Maury ChaykinDirected By: Carl Franklin
Director Norman Jewison's (In the Heat of the Night) 1984 adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the ramifications of racism and loyalty through the prism of blacks in the military, revealed through a murder mystery set in the 1940s deep South. Howard E. Rollins (Ragtime) plays a military investigator assigned to the murder of a drill instructor (Adolph Caesar) in ...
Manufacturer: Sony PicturesStarring: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans, David Alan Grier, David HarrisDirected By: Norman Jewison
A high-profile action/exploitation thriller set in the present, The Siege is really a fantasy that extrapolates from major terrorist attacks. Denzel Washington is FBI special agent Hubbard, "Hub" to his friends, whose anti-terrorist task force must track down the terrorist cells responsible for a spate of bombings in New York. His partner is an FBI agent of Arabian extraction (played ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century FoxStarring: Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Annette Bening, Tony Shalhoub, Sami BouajilaDirected By: Edward Zwick
