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'Our Family Wedding'
Instead of invitations, they should be sending out apologies for "Our Family Wedding," a cake and kisses comedy that has disaster written all over it. Race as much as romance is at the heart of the matter, with director Rick Famuyiwa playing that card...Tags: Forest Whitaker, Marriage, Movies, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Weddings
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Our Family Wedding: Focus on Fathers
KIAHBlacks and Hispanics in movies are all too often portrayed as ignorant, uneducated, and poor. They are all attributes no one person of color would be proud of. Finally one film focuses on minorities without making them undesirable, the downtrodden, and...Tags: John Singleton, Forest Whitaker, Marriage, Comedy (genre), Romance (genre)
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Movie review: 'Talk to Me'
Tribune movie critic3½ stars (out of four) Blessedly free of the usual biopic freight and sanctimony, the exuberant new film "Talk to Me" has a great subject and a great actor working in tandem, reminding audiences that once upon a time media personalities used to fight The...Tags: Johnny Carson, Celebrities, The Tonight Show (tv program), Movies, Disc Jockeys
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Fast-Paised review: 'Talk to Me'
Extremely outspoken ex-convict Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. (Don Cheadle) becomes a successful radio DJ in late '60s Washington, D.C. with the help of production manager Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Based on actual events, the film is peppered...Tags: Martin Sheen, Terence Blanchard, Washington, DC, Music Industry, Don Cheadle
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Don Cheadle Mouths Off in 'Talk to Me'
Zap2It.comDon Cheadle is an absolute gas in "Talk to Me," a bio-film as hot-wired as its mouthy DJ subject, Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene. Directed with infectious vitality by Kasi Lemmons (rebounding from the portentous "The Caveman's Valentine"), "Talk to Me" is...Tags: Radio, Nat King Cole, Movies, Disc Jockeys, Martin Luther King Jr.
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'Brown Sugar'
Times Staff WriterRick Famuyiwa's "Brown Sugar" is a sly and sophisticated romantic comedy with a depth of characterization matched by its appreciation of the world of hip-hop. It's a mainstream movie in the best sense: an all-too-infrequent big-screen depiction of...Tags: Magic Johnson, African Americans, Boris Kodjoe, Music Industry, PG Rated Movies
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The Wood
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday July 16, 1999 When several years ago a friend told aspiring filmmaker Rick Famuyiwa that he was getting married, the two of them started reminiscing about growing up in the African American middle-class neighborhood of Inglewood (now becoming...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Minority Groups, Movies, Death, The Happiest News!
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Movie review, 'Brown Sugar'
Tribune staff reporterThe music of our youth provides the soundtrack to our lives. Songs can paint the entire cultural landscape of a time and place, galvanize relationships and evoke rose-tinted memories long after the songs have fallen out of the radio rotation. Tracking...Tags: Humphrey Bogart, Documentary (genre), Romance (genre), Movies, Casablanca (movie)
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Fall Movie Preview
The Hartford CourantBetween the end of summer and the edge of winter and the holiday season, the movies shrink. The budgets are lower; the weekend totals dip. As young acolytes await the second coming of Harry Potter on Nov. 15 and older fans count the days until Pierce...Tags: Edward Norton, Dan Hedaya, Boris Kodjoe, Eric Stoltz, Alison Lohman
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