Movies by Charles S. Dutton
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Bad Ass (2012)
Cast: Danny Trejo, Charles S. Dutton, Ron Perlman …
Directed by: Craig Moss
Loosely based on a true incident, this tale follows a lonely Vietnam vet who bravely takes on two menacing hoods on a bus. When his heroics are caught on video, Frank sees his life…
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LUV (2012)
Cast: Common, Michael Rainey Jr., Dennis Haysbert …
Directed by: Sheldon Candis
This indie drama portrays a single day shared by an 11-year-old boy and his uncle, who's recently rejoined the world after eight years in prison. When the older Vincent brings young…
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The Obama Effect (2012)
Cast: Katt Williams, Charles S. Dutton, Vanessa Bell Calloway …
Directed by: Charles S. Dutton
Charles Dutton directed, co-wrote and stars in this political comedy about a middle-aged salesman so obsessed with getting Barack Obama elected that he ignores his own health situation and…
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Legion (2010)
Cast: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton …
Directed by: Scott Charles Stewart
In the wake of an apocalypse of major proportions, a motley crew of survivors ekes out a living at an abandoned truck stop in the desert, never suspecting that the pregnant woman walking…
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Celebrity Ghost Stories: Season 2 (2010)
Cast: Michael Imperioli, Joan Collins, Corey Feldman …
Think ghosts only haunt the average Joe? This series proves otherwise, as such diverse celebs as Regis Philbin, Vince Neil, Paul Shaffer and Carol Alt share their own tales of phantom…
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Fame (2009)
Cast: Kay Panabaker, Walter Perez, Naturi Naughton …
Directed by: Kevin Tancharoen
When a group of ambitious teenage dancers, musicians and actors enter a new semester at New York's prestigious High School of Performing Arts, they try to make the most out of their…
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The Express (2008)
Cast: Rob Brown, Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton …
Directed by: Gary Fleder
Rob Brown stars as trailblazer Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy. Dubbed the "Elmira Express" because of his tireless drive, Davis also lived up to the title…
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American Violet (2008)
Cast: Nicole Beharie, Michael O'Keefe, Will Patton …
Directed by: Tim Disney
Inspired by true events, this penetrating drama centers on Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie), a 24-year-old mother of four who's forced to take on a corrupt district attorney (Michael…
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Honeydripper (2007)
Cast: Danny Glover, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Yaya DaCosta …
Directed by: John Sayles
Danny Glover stars as Pine Top Purvis, owner of an Alabama juke joint whose glory days are gone and debts are piling up. To save his club, Purvis hires R&B sensation Guitar Sam. But when Sam…
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L.A. Riot Spectacular (2005)
Cast: Snoop Dogg, Charles S. Dutton, T.K. Carter …
Directed by: Marc Klasfeld
Snoop Dogg narrates this explosive satire that skewers the 1992 Los Angeles riots and roasts everyone from Mayor Bradley (Charles S. Dutton) to LAPD Chief Darryl Gates (Ronny Cox). From the…
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Against the Ropes (2004)
Cast: Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Skye McCole Bartusiak …
Directed by: Charles S. Dutton
Small in stature but larger than life in personality and determination, Detroit's Jackie Kallen (Meg Ryan) managed boxers and shepherded many of them to victory in the ring. Her personal…
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Secret Window (2004)
Cast: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello …
Directed by: David Koepp
Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp), a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife (Maria Bello), is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe (John…
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The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays (2004)
Cast: James Earl Jones, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna …
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique…
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Gothika (2003)
Cast: Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton …
Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist awakens to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering…
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Eye See You (2002)
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Charles S. Dutton, Polly Walker …
Directed by: Jim Gillespie
Traumatized after witnessing a brutal crime while on the job, FBI agent Jake Malloy (Sylvester Stallone) checks into a rehab clinic for law enforcement officers in the remote wilderness of…
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10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)
Cast: Andre Braugher, Charles S. Dutton, Mario Van Peebles …
Directed by: Robert Townsend
During the Depression, gainful employment is practically nonexistent for African-Americans. The only available jobs are as porters for the Pullman Rail Company (which pays blacks one-third of…
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Conviction (2002)
Cast: Omar Epps, Dana Delany, Bentley Mitchum …
Directed by: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Based on the compelling autobiography of Carl Upchurch (Omar Epps), Conviction tells the story of a man who hits rock bottom but climbs his way back up against all odds. Having grown up on…
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For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2001)
Cast: Andy Garcia, Gloria Estefan, David Paymer …
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
In the early 1970s, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) is torn between his own musical dreams and the dreams of his wife, Marianela (Mía Maestro), a fervent supporter of the…
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The '60s (1999)
Cast: Jerry O'Connell, Josh Hamilton, Julia Stiles …
Directed by: Mark Piznarski
Two families struggle through the turbulent political and social events of the 1960s. Brian Herlihy (Jerry O'Connell) fights in the Vietnam War while his brother, Michael (Josh…
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Random Hearts (1999)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Dutch Van Den Broeck's and Kay Chandler's spouses perish in a devastating plane crash. Using his police expertise, Dutch searches for answers, finding more in common between his…
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Cookie's Fortune (1999)
Cast: Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler …
Directed by: Robert Altman
"Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) -- salt of the earth and cornerstone of her small Southern town -- leaves a terrible void as well as a huge fortune when she dies. So her two estranged, greedy…
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Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)
Cast: Tom Skerritt, Sharon Lawrence, Charles S. Dutton …
Directed by: Mikael Salomon
When a devastating earthquake strikes New York City and kills millions, a disparate group of survivors -- led by fire chief Thomas Ahearn -- struggles to help others who are less fortunate in…
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Black Dog (1998)
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis, Meat Loaf …
Directed by: Kevin Hooks
This action yarn stars Patrick Swayze as unlicensed trucker Jack, who's tricked into transporting a cache of illegal assault weapons. But as soon as Jack hits the road, his boss's…
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Blind Faith (1998)
Cast: Charles S. Dutton, Courtney B. Vance, Kadeem Hardison …
Directed by: Ernest R. Dickerson
In 1957 New York, young African American Charles Williams Jr. (Garland Whitt) is accused of strangling an Irish American boy and readily admits to the crime. The case appears open-and-shut…
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Mimic (1997)
Cast: Mira Sorvino, F. Murray Abraham, Jeremy Northam …
Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Mira Sorvino stars as an entomologist whose work results in the eradication of disease-carrying cockroaches, only to create a new breed of lethal, man-sized insect in the sewer systems of New…
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A Time to Kill (1996)
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
When two white men brutally rape a young black girl in a small Mississippi town, the child's vengeful father (Samuel L. Jackson) fears their acquittal and takes the law into his own…
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Get on the Bus (1996)
Cast: Richard Belzer, De'Aundre Bonds, Andre Braugher …
Directed by: Spike Lee
A father and son, chained together by court order. A black historian. A cop. A former gangbanger. These are some of the souls who rode the bus from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to attend…
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Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance (1996)
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Joe Morton, Charles S. Dutton …
Directed by: Brian Dennehy
When some Russian immigrants are murdered in a suburban Chicago cemetery, their families are slow to cooperate with detective Jack Reed (Brian Dennehy). Meanwhile, a mayoral candidate's…
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Nick of Time (1995)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Charles S. Dutton …
Directed by: John Badham
Just off the train in Los Angeles, unassuming accountant Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) and his 6-year-old daughter (Courtney Chase) get drawn into a conspiracy to snuff California's governor…
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The Piano Lesson (1995)
Cast: Charles S. Dutton, Alfre Woodard, Courtney B. Vance …
Directed by: Lloyd Richards
Mississippi sharecropper Boy Willie (Charles S. Dutton) would love to own the farm where his family once worked as slaves. But to buy the property, he needs to sell the family's piano,…
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Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
Cast: James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Vusi Kunene …
Directed by: Darrell Roodt
Shot in the aftermath of Nelson Mandela's election, this film adaptation of South African author Alan Paton's novel tells the story of two men -- one black, one white -- who must…
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Jack Reed: One of Our Own (1995)
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Charles S. Dutton, Susan Ruttan …
Directed by: Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy reprises his role as tough cop Jack Reed in this made-for-TV movie co-starring Charles S. Dutton. Jack's protecting a woman whose life is in such danger that the only safe…
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Zooman (1995)
Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., Charles S. Dutton, Cynthia Martells …
Directed by: Leon Ichaso
When his 9-year-old daughter is accidentally killed in the crossfire of a gang shootout, Rueben Tate (Louis Gossett Jr.) pleads with his neighbors who witnessed the crime to identify the…
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Surviving the Game (1994)
Cast: Charles Dutton, Ice-T, Gary Busey …
Directed by: Ernest R. Dickerson
Mason (Ice-T) is a man down on his luck with nothing to lose when he's approached to lead a group of wealthy hunters on an expedition in the Pacific Northwest. But things get really…
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A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)
Cast: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Charles S. Dutton, Jada Pinkett Smith …
Directed by: Keenen Ivory Wayans
After failing to crack the Mendoza drug case and getting romantically entangled with the wrong woman, Andre Shame (Keenen Ivory Wayans) is forced to give up his private detective gig with the…
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Jack Reed: A Search for Justice (1994)
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Charles S. Dutton, Susan Ruttan …
Directed by: Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy wrote, directed and stars in this gritty crime drama -- the second in a series -- about a dedicated Chicago police officer assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a…
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Foreign Student (1994)
Cast: Robin Givens, Marco Hofschneider, Rick Johnson …
Directed by: Eva Sereny
In 1955, idealistic college student Philippe (Marco Hofschneider) travels from Paris to Virginia on a scholarship and encounters an entirely new world of American football, jazz, romance --…
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Menace II Society (1993)
Cast: Tyrin Turner, Samuel L. Jackson, Larenz Tate …
Directed by: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
Sobering and incisive, this cautionary urban drama centers on 18-year-old Caine Lawson (Tyrin Turner), a street tough facing a moral quandary while trying to turn his life around, aided by a…
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Rudy (1993)
Cast: Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Jon Favreau …
Directed by: David Anspaugh
In this fact-based drama about the triumph of the human spirit, scrawny high schooler Rudy Ruettiger (Sean Astin) dreams of playing football at Notre Dame. But his father (Ned Beatty)…
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The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
Cast: Joe Don Baker, Charles S. Dutton, Kevin McCarthy …
Directed by: Jonathan Lynn
A small-time con man (Eddie Murphy) with a big name -- Thomas Jefferson Johnson -- decides to move from running a phone-sex scam to a more lucrative and legal operation. He sees his chance to…
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Mississippi Masala (1992)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth …
Directed by: Mira Nair
Mira Nair concocts a fascinating picture of Mina (Sarita Choudhury), an Indian woman whose father (Roshan Seth) pines for his native Uganda, where his family lived prosperously until the evil…
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Alien 3: Collector's Edition (1992)
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance …
Directed by: David Fincher
In the third chapter of this sci-fi saga, Lt. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the lone survivor when her spaceship crashes on a planet inhabited by former prison inmates. Her fears that an alien…
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Q & A (1990)
Cast: Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
When a New York City cop (Nick Nolte) commits a cold-blooded murder and rigs the scene to make it look like self-defense, the district attorney (Timothy Hutton) assigned to investigate the…
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Runaway (1989)
Cast: Charles S. Dutton, Jasmine Guy, Randy Spears …
Directed by: Gilbert Moses
Aremis, abandoned by his mother, lives with his embittered aunt in New York City. His bleak existence is brightened by Joseph, a mentally handicapped boy who helps Aremis collect "junk" for…
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Jacknife (1989)
Cast: Kathy Baker, Charles S. Dutton, Ed Harris …
Directed by: David Jones
Megs (Robert De Niro) is a traumatized and volatile Vietnam veteran trying to deal with his postwar anxiety, while his Army buddy Dave (Ed Harris) drowns nightmares in a bottle of booze. When…
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Crocodile Dundee 2 (1988)
Cast: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Hetcher Ubarry …
Directed by: John Cornell
Outback legend Mick "Crocodile" Dundee (Paul Hogan) reunites with his lady friend, American reporter Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski), for another wild adventure. This time, Sue is kidnapped by…
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Fame (1980)
Cast: Gene Anthony Ray, Debbie Allen, Carlo Imperato …
Directed by: Robert Scheerer
Based on the smash 1980 movie of the same name, this inspiring series focuses on the resolute students and caring faculty of New York City's High School for the Performing Arts and…
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The Obama Effect (2012)
Cast: Katt Williams, Charles S. Dutton, Vanessa Bell Calloway …
Directed by: Charles S. Dutton
Charles Dutton directed, co-wrote and stars in this political comedy about a middle-aged salesman so obsessed with getting Barack Obama elected that he ignores his own health situation and…
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Racing for Time (2008)
Cast: Louis Herthum, Sara Jane Henriques, Douglas M. Griffin …
Directed by: Charles S. Dutton
Charles S. Dutton directs and stars in this Lifetime original movie as a guard working at a Texas correctional facility for troubled youth who creates a track team for female prisoners -- and…
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Against the Ropes (2004)
Cast: Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Skye McCole Bartusiak …
Directed by: Charles S. Dutton
Small in stature but larger than life in personality and determination, Detroit's Jackie Kallen (Meg Ryan) managed boxers and shepherded many of them to victory in the ring. Her personal…
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First Time Felon (1997)
Cast: William Forsythe, Delroy Lindo, Omar Epps …
Directed by: Charles S. Dutton
A young man (Omar Epps) charged with drug possession is given a choice of five years in prison or several months at boot camp. He opts for the latter, and the discipline yields some…