| Biography: Ajaye, Frankli |
| |
|
|
|
| Directed by noted actor-producer-director Robert Townsend ('Hollywood Shuffle'), the documentary, which originally screened at Sundance in 2009 in the Premiere section, features interviews with prominent scholars, politicians, cultural critics, and a host of notable comics, including Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Steve Harvey, and Katt Williams.
Why We Laugh' tracks the evolution of black comedy from the character of Stepin Fetchit and minstrels in blackface to the politically tinged humor of Dick Gregory, and from the television success of Good Times and The Jeffersons to the big-screen accomplishments of stars such as Eddie Murphy and Whoopi Goldberg. The film also turns a perceptive eye on the controversial career decision of Dave Chappelle and the implications of corporate efforts to capitalize on the massive success of Russell Simmons's Def Comedy Jam and Spike Lee's The Original Kings of Comedy. Search keywords
|
Categories: 2009, Documentary, USA
| |
|
|
|
| Meet Dave Bertman, a tightly wound 37 year-old father of one. Bertman's "higher" education begins when medical marijuana activists wielding "loaded" weapons interrupt a planned reunion barbecue with college debate chums. When his teenage daughter Gina Marie unexpectedly arrives with a joint found in her pocket, Bertman assumes the worst. Only after he faces his own hypocrisies, can he have the open and honest discussion needed for father and daughter to understand each other and reconnect. Meanwhile, Bertman's fellow debaters shed their inhibitions and make their own self-discoveries. Tired of seeing her grass-roots campaigns sabotaged by corporations opposing legalization, pro-pot advocate, Dr. Willa Peterson decides the kid gloves are coming off. By convincing the Fun-0nion snack food empire their sales would skyrocket if marijuana was legal, Peterson enlists their corporate might to back her cause. It will take a radical marketing campaign to change the way America thinks about marijuana, and PR guru, Arturo Goldman, of the famous PR firm Goldman, Goldberg, Goldstein, and Goldman comes up with one. "If they can use terrorists to convince people out of smoking pot, then we can use homosexuality to scare them back into it." The romp that follows leaves paranoid Bible thumpers scrambling to get their kids high to inhibit perceived homosexual tendencies. "Totally Baked" takes a satirical look at marijuana's stereotypes and mythologies using a compilation of "Man on the Street" true documentary style interviews, humorous insights by live stand-up comedians, and a series of interconnected vignettes spoofing both sides of the political debate over the legalization of marijuana. Search keywords
|
Categories: 2007, Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, News, USA
| |
|
|
|
| Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall. Search keywords
|
Categories: 1978, Action, Comedy, Drama, USA
| |
|
|
|
| Let out and laying waste you are framed for a bank robery and end in a west prison. Two east boys have difficulty, themselves to the new life adapting, until the manager thinks that hop natural tallent has to ride wild horses with the coming up interprison rodeo.
Lassen Sie aus und Verwüsten Sie werden für eine Bank robery eingerahmt und enden in einem Westgefängnis. Die zwei Ostjungen haben Schwierigkeit, sich an das neue Leben anpassend, bis der Direktor findet, dass Hopser einen natürlichen tallent hat, um wilde Pferde mit dem heraufkommenden Zwischengefängnisrodeo zu reiten. Search keywords
|
Categories: 1980, Comedy, USA
| |
|
|
|
| Stars of Neil Diamond as a Yussel in this fairy tale of young Jewish choirmasters who strives himself to make a career in the music. Against the wishes of his stiff father and his loving woman Yussel travels to California to play his music. Aufgekehrt by the excitement he meets a woman who divides his dream. He grows separated from his family, and is confused about what he should do with his life, finally.
Sterne von Neil Diamond als Yussel in diesem Märchen eines jungen jüdischen Kantoren, der sich müht, eine Karriere in der Musik zu machen. Gegen die Wünsche seines starren Vaters und seiner liebenden Frau reist Yussel nach Kalifornien, um seine Musik zu spielen. Aufgekehrt durch die Aufregung trifft er eine Frau, die seinen Traum teilt. Er wächst abgesondert von seiner Familie, und wird verwirrt darüber, was er mit seinem Leben schließlich tun sollte. Search keywords
|
Categories: 1980, Drama, Music, USA
| |
|
|
|
| This story takes place in a typical American neighborhood if some new neighbours come to live in the house beside Ray Peterson. These new people are really odd; nobody has one day seen them, her house is a real confusion, and during the night you can hear uncanny noises from her cellar. The only thing which they know is her name: Klopeks. One day Walter (an old man of the neighborhood) disappears suddenly, and everybody starts suspecting the Klopeks.
Diese Geschichte findet in einer typischen amerikanischen Nachbarschaft statt, wenn einige neue Nachbarn kommen, um im Haus neben Ray Peterson zu leben. Diese neuen Leute sind wirklich sonderbar; niemand hat sie jemals gesehen, ihr Haus ist eine echte Verwirrung, und während der Nacht können Sie unheimliche Geräusche von ihrem Keller hören. Das einzige Ding, das sie wissen, ist ihr Name: Klopeks. Eines Tages verschwindet Walter (ein alter Mann der Nachbarschaft) plötzlich, und jeder fängt an, den Klopeks zu verdächtigen. Search keywords
|
Categories: 1989, Comedy, Horror, USA
Current time is: 13 Feb 2012 12:42
