Brown Sugar (
2002) | IMDb:
6.5
Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a national magazine and he is a successful, though unfulfilled, hip-hop record company executive. Both come to realize that their true life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned that day on the corner.
The Preacher's Wife (
1996) | IMDb:
5.7
Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all this, his church is coming under threat from property developer Joe Hamilton. In desperation, Biggs prays to God for help – which arrives in the form of an angel named Dudley.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
Whitney Houston
,
Courtney B. Vance
,
Gregory Hines
,
Jenifer Lewis
,
Loretta Devine
Frankenhooker (
1990) | IMDb:
6.2
A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel room so he can collect body parts to reassemble her.
Starring:
James Lorinz
,
Patty Mullen
,
Joanne Ritchie
,
J.J. Clark
,
Helmar Augustus Cooper
,
Louise Lasser
Bloodhounds of Broadway (
1989) | IMDb:
5.3
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed, and she has problems dealing with her loss. Then, there is a gambler, "Regret", who has bloodhounds on his trail when he becomes a murder suspect. Finally, "The Brain" is bleeding profusely, and his friends search for a way to save his life through a blood transfusion.
Directed by:
Howard Brookner