Biography: Fast talking and feisty looking Latino actor & comedian who has steadily impressed movie audiences with his versatility from playing sensitive & naive young men, such as "Johnny" in the superb "Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991)", to cold blooded villain "Benny Blanco from the Bronx" gunning down reformed gangster Al Pacino in "Carlito's Way (1995)", a heroic Navy Seal stopping aerial terrorists in ... show all Fast talking and feisty looking Latino actor & comedian who has steadily impressed movie audiences with his versatility from playing sensitive & naive young men, such as "Johnny" in the superb "Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991)", to cold blooded villain "Benny Blanco from the Bronx" gunning down reformed gangster Al Pacino in "Carlito's Way (1995)", a heroic Navy Seal stopping aerial terrorists in "Executive Decision (1996)" and as drag queen, "Miss Chi Chi Rodriguez", in "To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)". Arguably, not since the ill-fated actor and comedian Freddie Prinze starred in the smash TV series "Chico and the Man" (1974)", has a youthful Latino personality had such a powerful impact on critics and fans alike.
Born July 22, 1964 in Bogota, Colombia...Leguizamo immigrated with his family at the age of four to the US and was raised in Queens, New York City.....attended New York University, and studied under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg for only one day, before he passed away!! The extrovert Leguizamo started working the comedy club circuit in NYC and first appeared in front of the cameras in an episode of "Miami Vice" (1984)". His first film appearance was a small part in "Mixed Blood (1985)", and then other minor in "Casualties of War (1989)" and "Die Hard 2 (1990)", before playing a liquor store thief who shoots Harrison Ford in "Regarding Henry (1991)". His career really started to soar after his wonderful performance in the sensational "Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991)" as a nervous young teenager from the Bronx out for a night in brightly lit Manhattan with his buddies, and facing the career choice of staying in a supermarket, or heading off to college.
The year 1991 was also very memorable for other reasons, as he hit the stage with his show "Mambo Mouth" in which he portrayed seven different Latino characters. The witty & incisive show was a smash hit and won for Leguizamo the Obie & Outer Circle Critics Award, plus it later played on HBO where it picked up a CableACE Award. He returned to the stage approximately two years later, with another satirical production poking fun at Latino stereotypes titled "Spic-O-Rama", that played Chicago & New York, and won the Drama Desk Award and four CableACE Awards.
In 1995, he created & starred in the short lived TV series "House of Buggin'" (1995)", an all Latino casted comedy / variety show featuring hilarious sketches and comedic routines. The show scored two Emmy nominations, and positive reviews from critics, however it folded after only one season. Gifted Leguizamo was still keeping busy in film with key appearances in "Super Mario Bros. (1993)", "Romeo + Juliet (1996)" and "Spawn (1997)". And in 1998, he made his Broadway debut in "Freak" a "demi-semi-quasi-pseudo-autobiographical" one man show.
Utilising his distinctive vocal talents, he next voiced a pesky rat in "Doctor Dolittle (1998)", before appearing in the dynamic Spike Lee "Summer of Sam (1999)" as a guilt-ridden womaniser, as the Genie of The Lamp in the exciting "Arabian Nights (2000) (TV)" and as "Henri Toulouse Latrec" in the visual spectacular "Moulin Rouge! (2001)". Additional voice work followed as "Sid" in the animated "Ice Age (2002)", alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Collateral Damage (2002)", and directing & starring in the boxing film "Undefeated (2003) (TV)". At the time of writing, Leguizamo was in post production for the keenly anticipated remake of the John Carpenter hit "Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)". There can be no doubt that the remarkably talented Leguizamo has been a breakthrough performer for the Latino community in mainstream Hollywood, in much the same way that Sidney Poitier crashed through celluloid barriers for African Americans in the early 1960s. Among his many strengths lies his ability to both not take his ethnic background too seriously, but also that he is proud of his Latin heritage and that he has opened many doors for his countrymen. Definitely, a masterly and accomplished performer, movie audiences await Leguizamo's next exciting performance!! hide |
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| A young seductive woman named Reina, living in Medellin, Colombia, becomes infatuated with finding fortune in New York City. A young man named Marlon desperately falls in love with this rebellious teen. Entangled in her web of fantasies, Marlon has no other choice but to blindly follow her imposing lead. Driven by their will to reach their dreamland, the two embark on the brutal exodus of the Latin-American immigrants who cross illegally through Mexico. This adventure in narrated by Marlon on his voyage to find his love, his heroine, his Reina. The couple got separated upon arrival in New York and Marlon fueled only by the power of love has been through hell and back trying to find her. This is his story. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Adventure, Colombia, Drama, Romance, USA
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| Two African-Americans and two Puerto-Ricans (though one pretends to be Italian) go out on the town on a Friday night. They will be forced to get to know each other, and even worst, learn to like each other as friends. Search keywords
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Categories: 1991, Comedy, Drama, USA
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| In this new tale a harrowing vision of a modern-day world where the walking dead roam an uninhabited wasteland and the living try to lead "normal" lives behind the walls of a fortified city. A new society has been built by a handful of enterprising, ruthless opportunists, who live in the towers of a skyscraper, high above the hard-scrabble existence on the streets below. But outside the city walls, an army of the dead is evolving. Inside, anarchy is on the rise. With the very survival of the city at stake, a group of hardened mercenaries is called into action to protect the living from an army of the dead. Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Action, Canada, France, Horror, Thriller, USA
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| New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden and his feisty wife Alice, struggle to make ends meet. Despite Ralph's many get-rich-quick schemes/motivational speaker tape series, they've managed to save some money and, along with their best friends Ed and Trixie Norton, they seem to have almost enough money for a down payment on a Brooklyn duplex. However, when Ralph decides to try to impress Alice by making up what he's lost and augmenting their savings with another of his crazy schemes, he winds up losing all their money and his marriage to boot--and it takes all his determination and love for Alice to get things on track again. Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Comedy, USA
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| Thief Kevin Caffery attempts to rob from the home of rich businessman Max Fairbanks. But Fairbanks catches him and steals his cherished ring that his girlfriend gave him. Caffery is then bent on revenge and getting his ring back with the help of his partners. Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Comedy, Crime, USA
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Categories: 2002, Drama, USA
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| A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Crime, USA
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| After the events of "Ice Age: The Meltdown", life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and Ellie, having since become an item, are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own, and so steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to Sid ending up in a strange underground world where his herd must rescue him, while dodging dinosaurs and facing danger left and right, and meeting up with a one-eyed weasel known as Buck who hunts dinosaurs intently. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Romance, USA
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| A Puerto Rican family living in the area of Humboldt Park in west Chicago face what may be their last Christmas together. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Comedy, Drama, Romance, USA
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| The movie adaptation of Todd McFarlane's mega-cult comic! Al Simmons is a hitman who works for the government. One day, someone sets him up and he gets killed. Of course, he goes to Hell, where Malebolgia - the Devil himself - offers him a deal. Al will come back to life with a certain amount of "energy", but when it runs out, he will return to Hell as a Hellspawn, and help in the war against Heaven. Al accepts the offer, because of the love for his wife Wanda, but when he arrives to Earth he sees that the Devil has cheated him... His face is horribly distorted, his body covered with a living suit, and the worst of all; he finds Wanda married with his best friend. Shattered, the Spawn starts wandering in New York's alleys... Search keywords
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Categories: 1997, Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, USA
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| Dancer Sherazade was told by the stars that she will become wife of the kalif in Bagdad. She tells Kamar, brother of kalif Haroun. He planned a coup d'etat, which failed at first, but supported by the wasir he finally succeeds. Haroun is injured and gets help from Ahmad's actor troupe, where he is nursed by Sherazade, who doesn't recognise him. When she hears that Kamar is looking for her she goes to him, but is sold with the complete troupe of actors to slavery. They're able to escape, but Haroun is still in danger. To save him, Sherazade agrees to poison Kamar, but Haroun tries to establish his rulership first. Search keywords
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Categories: 1942, Action, Adventure, USA
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| In Italy, 1944, the story of four black American soldiers who find themselves in a Tuscan village during the Second World War.
In Italien 1944, die Geschichte von vier schwarzen amerikanischen Soldaten, die sich in einer toskanischen Dorf während des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Action, Crime, Drama, Italy, Thriller, USA, War
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| Two ex-serviceman's detectives of New York city work to identify the possible connection between a new murder and a case, they think that they solved some years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they maybe bring the wrong person behind castle and bolt?.
Zwei Veterandetektive von New York City arbeiten, um die mögliche Verbindung zwischen einem neuen Mord und einem Fall zu identifizieren, sie glauben, dass sie vor einigen Jahren lösten; gibt es einen Serienmörder auf dem losen, und brachten sie vielleicht die falsche Person hinter Schloss und Riegel?. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Crime, Drama, USA
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| Carlito Brigante is released of the jail after serving five years of a much longer extension. He swears of going straight and living through the life as a thin, strong citizen. He even re-stimulates a romance with his ex-lover. Nevertheless, it cannot seem that the Carlito associates leave him in the peace. his nephew implies a shooting of quarter of the fund, his lawyer asks him for "favors" what spiral of the control, and up to an old friend (now a wheelchair tied the paraplegic one) it tries to obtain him in the problem with the law. Carlito decides to do a career to Florida and the promise of a new life, but it has a final dramatic escape to do of some hoods who believe (incorrectly) that he was behind the murder of his chief.
El Carlito Brigante es soltado de la cárcel después de servir cinco años de una extensión mucho más larga. Él jura de ir directamente y vivir la vida como un ciudadano fino, fuerte. Él hasta reaviva un romance con su ex-amante. Sin embargo, no puede parecer que los socios de Carlito le abandonan en la paz. su sobrino le implica un tiroteo de cuarto del fondo, su abogado le pide "favores" qué espiral del control, y hasta un viejo amigo (ahora una silla de ruedas ligó al parapléjico) trata de conseguirle en el problema con la ley. Carlito decide hacer una carrera a Florida y la promesa de una nueva vida, pero tiene una fuga dramática final para hacer de algunas capuchas quiénes creen (incorrectamente) que él era detrás del asesinato de su jefe. Search keywords
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Categories: 1993, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| A teenager transforms his babysitting service into service of call girl for the married guys having made the fool with one of his clients.
Un adolescent transforme son service babysitting en service de call-girl pour les gars mariés après avoir fait l'imbécile avec un de ses clients. Search keywords
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Categories: 2007, Drama, USA
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| A paranoid thriller about a family on the run of a natural crisis which presents a largely invested threat against the humanity.
Ein paranoider Thriller über eine Familie auf dem Lauf von einer natürlichen Krise, die eine groß angelegte Drohung gegen die Menschheit präsentiert. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Drama, India, Sci-Fi, USA
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| An indigent 14-year-old person (Noah Fleiss) struggles to hold her life together in spite of hard abuse to her mother (Karen Young) hands, harder abuse to his father (Valley Kilmer) and growing separation of her slightly older brother (Max Ligosh). Small flights for the food become more important takes until he steals a liquid box of the diner where he works. Although Joe uses some money to reimburse some of the debts of his father and to replace the files of his mother that his father broke down a crisis of mood, Joe arrives not, thank you.
Une personne de 14 ans indigente (Noah Fleiss) se débat pour tenir sa vie ensemble en dépit de l'abus dur à sa mère (Karen Young) les mains, l'abus plus dur à son père (Val Kilmer) et une séparation grandissante de son frère légèrement plus vieux (Max Ligosh). De petits vols pour la nourriture deviennent plus important prend jusqu'à ce qu'il vole une boîte liquide du dîneur où il travaille. Bien que Joe utilise de l'argent pour rembourser certaines des dettes de son père et remplacer les dossiers de sa mère que son père a défoncé une crise d'humeur, Joe arrive non, merci. Search keywords
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Categories: 1999, Crime, Drama, USA
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| Spike Lee takes over the "son of Sam" murders in New York city during the summer, 1977, on the inhabitants of a Bronx Italian-American south neighborhood in the centre standing who live en general and the mistrust against each other.
Spike Lee übernimmt den "Sohn von Sam" Morde in New York City während des Sommers 1977, auf die Einwohner einer Bronx italienisch-amerikanischen Südnachbarschaft im Mittelpunkt stehend, die der en general und dem Misstrauen gegen einander leben. Search keywords
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Categories: 1999, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, USA
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| The terrorists take back 747 attaches from Athens to Washington D. C. supposedly perform the liberalisation of their leader. The expert of intelligence David Grant suspects another reason and persuades the servicemen who should not be allowed that the 'plane enters in U. S. airspace. A mission of attack is conceived, by using a 'especially equipped plane conceived in the transfers of crew of full flight and the Subsidy is on board of 747 with a team of anti-terror servicemen who have to deactivate a bomb and control the terrorists.
Les terroristes reprennent des 747 attachés d'Athènes à Washington D. C. , censément effectuer la libération de leur chef. L'expert d'intelligence David Grant soupçonne une autre raison et convainc les militaires que l'on ne devrait pas permettre que le 'avion entre dans U. S. espace aérien. Une mission d'assaut est conçue, en utilisant un 'avion spécialement équipé conçu aux transferts d'équipage de plein vol et la Subvention se trouve à bord des 747 avec une équipe d'antiterroristes militaires qui doivent désamorcer une bombe et maîtriser les terroristes. Search keywords
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Categories: 1996, Action, Adventure, Thriller, USA
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| During the war of Vietnam a girl is taken by her village of five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers violate them, but the fifth rubbish. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is decided that justice is done. The film is more about the realities of the war, but not this single event.
Während des Krieges von Vietnam wird ein Mädchen von ihrem Dorf von fünf amerikanischen Soldaten genommen. Vier der Soldaten vergewaltigen sie, aber den fünften Abfall. Das junge Mädchen wird getötet. Der fünfte Soldat ist entschlossen, dass Justiz getan wird. Der Film ist mehr über die Realien des Krieges, aber nicht dieses einzelne Ereignis. Search keywords
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Categories: 1989, Adventure, Biography, Drama, USA, War
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