Movies by Allen Payne
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Crossover (2006)
Cast: Anthony Mackie, Wesley Jonathan, Eva Pigford …
Directed by: Preston A. Whitmore II
Noah Cruise (Wesley Jonathan) has the talent to be a professional cager but vows to use his sports scholarship to study medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, in this…
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Men Cry in the Dark (2003)
Cast: Allen Payne, Richard Roundtree, Rhona Bennett …
Directed by: Je'Caryous Johnson
Bachelor Derrick Reed has a great group of buddies and plenty of dates -- in fact, he's so invested in his lifestyle that he starts a magazine called Happily Single. But when he appears…
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Playas Ball (2003)
Cast: Elise Neal, MC Lyte, Allen Payne …
Professional basketball player Cedric Tinsley (Allen Payne) is on the verge of signing a multimillion-dollar endorsement deal when a woman he's never met (Elise Neal) fingers him as the…
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30 Years to Life (2002)
Cast: Erika Alexander, Melissa De Sousa, Tracy Morgan …
Directed by: Vanessa Middleton
Six friends in New York City face emotional crises as they turn 30. For starters, we meet an investment banker who desperately wants to get married, a bitter stand-up comedian, and a real…
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Bluehill Avenue (2001)
Cast: Allen Payne, Andrew Divoff, Clarence Williams III …
Directed by: Craig Ross Jr.
Growing up in the rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Roxbury in Boston means finding a way to adapt to the mean streets -- and that's just what four friends do by peddling drugs and…
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Double Platinum (1999)
Cast: Diana Ross, Christine Ebersole, Allen Payne …
Directed by: Robert Allan Ackerman
When Olivia King was an up-and-coming vocalist, she left her daughter Kayla behind. Nearly 20 years later, Olivia wants to reunite. But with a career of her own and no shortage of hard…
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A Price Above Rubies (1998)
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Christopher Eccleston, Julianna Margulies …
Directed by: Boaz Yakin
Married to a strictly observant Jew, a young mother (Renee Zellweger) craves fewer rules and more passion. Along comes her jeweler brother-in-law, who sees her anguish and values her at "a…
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The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
Cast: Courtney B. Vance, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Allen Payne …
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
In World War II, the 332nd Air Force squadron was honored for keeping casualties low and bombers safe. But it also made history because its members were the first African-American pilots to…
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Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payne …
Directed by: Wes Craven
Fright master Wes Craven and superstar funnyman Eddie Murphy meet in the middle for this horror-comedy featuring Murphy as Maximillian, the lone survivor of a race of vampires who comes to…
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The Walking Dead (1995)
Cast: Allen Payne, Eddie Griffin, Joe Morton …
Directed by: Preston A. Whitmore II
After landing in a Vietnam War hot zone, four U.S. Marines must grapple with the sobering realization that they're on a virtually unachievable mission -- a predicament that invites…
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Jason's Lyric (1994)
Cast: Allen Payne, Jada Pinkett Smith, Anthony "Treach" Criss …
Directed by: Doug McHenry
Jason Alexander (Allen Payne) struggles to rise above a family plagued by drugs and crime, an inner-city neighborhood and his troubling past. When he falls for a waitress named Lyric (Jada…
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CB4 (1993)
Cast: Chris Rock, Allen Payne, Deezer D …
Directed by: Tamra Davis
A rap version of This Is Spinal Tap, CB4 stars Chris Rock as Albert, a wanna-be rap star who, along with two friends, is trying in vain to break into the business. When Albert is mistaken for…
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New Jack City: Special Edition (1991)
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes), a drug dealer at the dawn of the crack cocaine epidemic, enriches himself and enslaves his people via an inner-city crack factory. Meanwhile, cop Scotty Appleton…