Originally called Sex Crimes, executive producer Dick Wolf wisely opted for something less lurid when the second in the inexhaustible Law & Order franchise hit the air in 1999. Still, as the opening voiceover makes clear, the “sexually based offenses” investigated by New York’s Special Victims Unit can be “especially heinous.” Wolf penned series premier […]
Antwone Fisher
Antwone Fisher (Derek Luke) is a temperamental young man with a violent past who is serving in the U.S. Navy. His father was killed before he was born and his teenage mother, Eva Mae Fisher (Viola Davis), was arrested and put in jail where she gave birth to him. Antwone was placed in an orphanage […]
Leaving Las Vegas
Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage) is a Hollywood screenwriter whose alcoholism costs him his job, family, and friends. With nothing left, he goes to Las Vegas to drink himself to death. As he drives drunkenly down the Las Vegas Strip, he almost hits a woman in the crosswalk, Sera (Elizabeth Shue), who chastises him. Ben checks […]
Hotel Rwanda
The true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. As tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples lead to a war in Rwanda, there is rampant corruption and bribes of the politicians are routine. Rusesabagina is Hutu, […]
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