Bob Orwig

Bob Orwig

Movies for Bob Orwig...

Get on the Bus
Title: Get on the Bus
Character: Rodney
Released: October 16, 1996
Type: Movie
Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to him, a black Republican, a former gangsta, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a white bus driver. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, including manhood, religion, politics, and race.
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Memphis
Title: Memphis
Character: White Policeman
Released: January 27, 1992
Type: Movie
Two men and a woman in the deep south of the 1950s plot to kidnap a child from a wealthy black family, mistakenly believing that no one will try to stop them.
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JFK
Title: JFK
Character: Officer Poe
Released: December 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
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Forgotten Heroes
Title: Forgotten Heroes
Character: Joe 'Cowboy' Geer
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
An independent movie from 1990 highlighting the valor of the men who served in Vietnam. Ramon, an American soldier, is newly added to a platoon of Marines ordered into Cambodia to extract a Russian general named Zelenkov. As Ramon arrives in the camp, the audience gets to know each member of the team, and Ramon suffers from the normal hazing of a new team member. The soldiers successfully land in Cambodia and extract the general, but an elite troop of Russian paratroopers tracks them down. Several battles follow, with many redemptive acts of sacrifice.
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No Justice
Title: No Justice
Character: Virgel Johnson
Released: November 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A violent sadist has been appointed a deputy sheriff by his uncle, the alcoholic and corrupt county sheriff, who runs a drug-smuggling and bootlegging operation on the side. When the sheriff's nephew decides to steal the land of some local "half-breeds", a young deputy in the department decides it's time to stand up to him.
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Platoon
Title: Platoon
Character: Gardner
Released: December 19, 1986
Type: Movie
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.