Sy Richardson

Sy Richardson

Born: June 4, 1941
in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Sy Richardson is an American film and television actor.Richardson made his film debut as the Fairy Godmother, in the 1977 American erotic musical comedy Cinderella. He is perhaps best known as a regular in the films of Alex Cox, having appeared in Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Walker, The Winner and Searchers 2.0. He played "Turbo" in the 1990 film Tripwire. He recently had a recurring role as the coroner on the TV series Pushing Daisies. He is also in They Live and played a tough L.A. County Sherrif in the gang classic Colors.

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It Wants Blood 2
Title: It Wants Blood 2
Character: Professor Smert
Released: August 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Two giant monsters are forced to battle head to head on the political circuit as they run against each other for a seat in the Senate.
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Title: Family Reunion
Character: Brother Franklin
Released: July 10, 2019
Type: TV
Family Reunion follows a family of six who travel from Seattle, Washington to Columbus, Georgia for the McKellan Family Reunion and decide to stay to be closer to their family.
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5th of July
Title: 5th of July
Character: Pops
Released: February 14, 2019
Type: Movie
All he wanted to do was spread his father's ashes in the national park - mayhem ensues.
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Message From a Mistress
Title: Message From a Mistress
Character: Mr. Hall
Released: May 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Longtime best friends Renee, Aria, Jaime and Jessa have shared just about everything. All hell breaks loose when Jessa sends them a message via DVD with a shocking message!
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Sandy Passage
Title: Sandy Passage
Character: David
Released: August 20, 2015
Type: Movie
An in-depth look at the daily lives of two ageing socialites and their crumbling estate. This mother and daughter live in extreme squalor, but the documentarians find more than just dirt and clutter.
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Title: Documentary Now!
Character: David
Released: August 20, 2015
Type: TV
Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.
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Faith of Our Fathers
Title: Faith of Our Fathers
Character: Dan
Released: July 1, 2015
Type: Movie
With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty. A man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul (David A.R. White and Kevin Downes), meet as strangers. Guided by handwritten letters from their fathers from the battlefield, they embark on an unforgettable journey to The Wall-the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Along the way, they discover the devastation of war cannot break the love of a father for his son.
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Larry Crowne
Title: Larry Crowne
Character: Avery
Released: June 30, 2011
Type: Movie
When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher.
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Title: Rizzoli & Isles
Character: Sour Grapes
Released: July 12, 2010
Type: TV
Perhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles so effective. Jane, the only female cop in Boston's homicide division, is tough, relentless and rarely lets her guard down, while the impeccably dressed Maura displays a sometimes icy temperament — she is, after all, more comfortable among the dead than the living. Together, the best friends have forged a quirky and supportive relationship; they drop the protective shield in each other's company, and combine their expertise to solve Boston's most complex cases.
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A Numbers Game
Title: A Numbers Game
Character: Bernie
Released: April 15, 2010
Type: Movie
Neil Black is a good looking schmoozer who can sell anything to anyone, literally. The beautiful Catherine (Madison Walls) doesn’t seem to close deals as easily as Mr. Black (Steven Bauer) and soon realizes her sales room is headed for disaster. Not able to handle rejection or accept failure, Catherine is forced to hand over her sales team to Neil Black, and watch as he turns her unproductive lazy sales room into a prosperous and successful “money room.” Basically, the plot focuses on the transformation of Catherine’s failing sales room and the blossoming relationship between her and Neil Black.
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Our Family Wedding
Title: Our Family Wedding
Character: Sonny
Released: March 12, 2010
Type: Movie
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
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South of Heaven
Title: South of Heaven
Character: Pawn Daddy
Released: September 21, 2008
Type: Movie
A man returning from a tour of duty is mistaken for his brother by debt-collecting gangsters, while the brother goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with a loose-cannon convict.
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Title: Pushing Daisies
Character: Coroner
Released: October 3, 2007
Type: TV
A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.
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Searchers 2.0
Title: Searchers 2.0
Character: Fritz Frobisher
Released: August 31, 2007
Type: Movie
Two actors who owe their entire careers to the Western genre seek revenge against a legendary screenwriter who once mistreated them on the set of an early film.
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Lord Help Us
Title: Lord Help Us
Character: Church Member
Released: February 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Comedy about faith and family directed by Shavar Ross. When a recently widowed Baptist preacher (Bill Toliver) loses the respect of his congregation over rumors of his impending marriage to a woman 45 years younger, best friends hatch a plan to help him regain his flock.
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Surviving Christmas
Title: Surviving Christmas
Character: Doo-Dah Understudy
Released: September 21, 2004
Type: Movie
Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, he revisits his old childhood home in the hope of reliving some old holiday memories – but he finds that the house in which he was raised is no longer the home in which he grew up.
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L.A. County 187
Title: L.A. County 187
Character: Leotis Brown
Released: July 5, 2003
Type: Movie
It's another night in L.A. County 187 for policeman Walter Drazin and his team, but when they find the corpses of an Asian family in a burned down club, arson and murder come to the fore. As Drazin investigates the guests of the club, the sordid truth about the city's underworld activities rears its ugly head.
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Title: Monk
Character: Sanitation Worker
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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Title: Monk
Character: Janitor
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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Title: The Shield
Character: Brother William
Released: March 12, 2002
Type: TV
The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
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Human Nature
Title: Human Nature
Character: Police Detective
Released: September 12, 2001
Type: Movie
A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man, Puff, in the ways of the world - starting with table manners - Nathan's lover Lila fights to preserve the man's simian past, which represents a freedom enviable to most.
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After Diff'rent Strokes: When the Laughter Stopped
Title: After Diff'rent Strokes: When the Laughter Stopped
Character: Mr. Coleman
Released: May 16, 2000
Type: Movie
You've read the stories, you've seen the documentaries. Now see the movie that brings it all to life.
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The Playaz Court
Title: The Playaz Court
Character: Ike
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
The courts of Englewood are as far removed from the hollowed halls of justice as a street ball player can imagine, but when a pickup game ends in death, the quest for revenge proves that even on the street there's a code of honor. Reggie's best friend is dead, and the pain of his loss leads the hardened player on a quest to ensure that the killer pays for his crime. Upon tracking the killer to a gym, Reggie enters, gun in hand and ready to avenge his friend's death. As the other players declare that no one will die on their court without a fair trial, they listen to both sides of the story to determine if justice will be served with a bullet, or whether the suspected killer will live to play another game.
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Mr. P's Dancing Sushi Bar
Title: Mr. P's Dancing Sushi Bar
Released: September 25, 1999
Type: Movie
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Heat Vision and Jack
Title: Heat Vision and Jack
Character: Doctor
Released: January 10, 1999
Type: Movie
As the result of a NASA miscalculation, Astronaut Jack Austin flew too close to the sun, the rays expanding his mind and making him the smartest man on the planet. Now he and his talking motorcycle (who contains the mind of his former roommate) are on the run from NASA and their assassin, actor Ron Silver who want to take his brain. They travel from place to place solving paranormal mysteries with the help of Jack's newfound ability to become a super genius when his brain absorbs sunlight.
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Title: Charmed
Character: Father Wilkins
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: TV
Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.
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Erasable You
Title: Erasable You
Character: Miliatant
Released: June 13, 1998
Type: Movie
A man hires an assassin to kill his money-grabbing first wife.
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Shattered Illusions
Title: Shattered Illusions
Character: Gene
Released: February 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A Psycho stalks a talk radio personality and her mentally challenged sister.
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Evil Obsession
Title: Evil Obsession
Character: Jim
Released: September 19, 1996
Type: Movie
As models show up on calendars and magazine covers, someone is making bodies show up at the morgue. Is it the obsessed fan?
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Floundering
Title: Floundering
Character: Commander K
Released: November 4, 1994
Type: Movie
A disaffected and increasingly disturbed young man journeys through post-riot Los Angeles.
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Title: ER
Character: Coleman
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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The Glass Shield
Title: The Glass Shield
Character: Mr. Taylor
Released: September 16, 1994
Type: Movie
J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, whom he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into grave personal danger in the service of justice.
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Posse
Title: Posse
Character: Shepherd
Released: May 14, 1993
Type: Movie
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.
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Eye of the Stranger
Title: Eye of the Stranger
Character: Jeb
Released: April 23, 1993
Type: Movie
A stranger comes into town and causes a stir when he stands up for the townfolk, in the face of the intimidation tactics from Mayor Howard Baines. The scheming mayor wants to buy up all the local properties, and has hired two thugs to help 'persuade' the owners to sell.
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Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel
Title: Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel
Character: Ernest
Released: March 17, 1993
Type: Movie
Johnny Woo and Julie play an enduring couple who survive all sorts of interference from rival kick-box gangs in their effort to put a little romance in their lives.
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Title: Martin
Released: August 27, 1992
Type: TV
Sassy sitcom centering on radio and television personality Martin Payne. Series focuses on his romantic relationship with girlfriend Gina, her best friend Pam and escapades with best friends Tommy and Cole.
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To Sleep with Anger
Title: To Sleep with Anger
Character: Marsh
Released: October 12, 1990
Type: Movie
An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
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Men at Work
Title: Men at Work
Character: Walt Richardson
Released: August 24, 1990
Type: Movie
Two garbage men find the body of a city councilman in a trash can on their route. With help from a supervisor, the duo must solve the case and find the man's killer while hiding the body from the cops.
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The Grifters
Title: The Grifters
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1990
Type: Movie
A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young lady.
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Street Asylum
Title: Street Asylum
Character: Sgt. 'Joker' Tatum
Released: June 6, 1990
Type: Movie
In the bleak near future Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone with cops pitted against assorted law-breaking lowlifes. Sergeant Arliss Ryder (well played with customary wired intensity by the always great Wings Hauser) has an electronic device put into his back that turns him into an out-of-control psychotic killer and put on the Strike S.Q.U.A.D. (an acronym for Scum Quelling Assault Urban Devision), which is a unit of crazed cops assigned by Captain Bill Quinton (a typically gruff Alex Cord) to rid the City of Angels of criminals by using any means necessary. The only problem is that Arliss discovers what's going down and decides to put a stop to all this madness.
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Title: Wings
Character: Luther
Released: April 19, 1990
Type: TV
Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.
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Catchfire
Title: Catchfire
Character: Capt. Walker
Released: April 3, 1990
Type: Movie
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
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Tripwire
Title: Tripwire
Character: Turbo
Released: November 30, 1989
Type: Movie
A band of ruthless international terrorists led by Josef Szabo hijack a speeding railroad train loaded with a full arsenal of powerful military weaponry capable of threatening world peace. The only hero who can stop the terrorists' scheme for world domination is Jack DeForest. During the battle between good and evil the hero DeForest accidentally kills the son of the Szabo. Seeking revenge Szabo locates DeForest’s family, murders his wife and kidnaps their teenage son thereby turning their fight it into a personal vendetta. So, DeForest must fight not only to save the world, but for his only remaining family.
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Mystery Train
Title: Mystery Train
Character: Newsvendor
Released: September 6, 1989
Type: Movie
In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles upon a fleeing charlatan girl; and a comical trio of accidental thieves looking for a place to hide.
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Title: Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Character: Lavonne
Released: February 3, 1989
Type: Movie
A brutal Los Angeles police lieutenant is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.
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Three Fugitives
Title: Three Fugitives
Character: Tucker
Released: January 27, 1989
Type: Movie
On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives.
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They Live
Title: They Live
Character: Black Revolutionary
Released: November 4, 1988
Type: Movie
A lone drifter stumbles upon a harrowing discovery -- a unique pair of sunglasses that reveals that aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.
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Tapeheads
Title: Tapeheads
Character: Bartender
Released: October 21, 1988
Type: Movie
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some help from Mo Fuzz, they soon become hot property. But not all goes smoothly when they try to resurrect the career of their favorite R&B duo, the Swanky Modes.
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Dead Man Walking
Title: Dead Man Walking
Character: Snake
Released: September 15, 1988
Type: Movie
After Leila, his boss's daughter, is kidnapped by psychopathic plague victim Decker, chauffeur Chazz teams up with plague-infected mercenary Luger to penetrate the toxic & off-limits Plague Zone and bring her back alive.
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Colors
Title: Colors
Character: Bailey
Released: April 15, 1988
Type: Movie
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
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Bad Dreams
Title: Bad Dreams
Character: Detective Wasserman
Released: April 8, 1988
Type: Movie
Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. Years later, the nightmare of Unity Field remains buried in her mind. But when those around Cynthia start killing themselves, and she begins having visions of Harris, she may be forced to confront the past -- before it confronts her.
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Cold Steel
Title: Cold Steel
Character: Rashid
Released: December 11, 1987
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, Johnny Modine's father is murdered by a psycho cut-throat. The cop swears bloody revenge, though he's taken off the case. He doesn't suspect yet that he's also the target in a diabolic plan of revenge.
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Walker
Title: Walker
Character: Captain Hornsby
Released: December 4, 1987
Type: Movie
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
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Straight to Hell
Title: Straight to Hell
Character: Norwood
Released: June 26, 1987
Type: Movie
A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee.
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Medium Rare
Title: Medium Rare
Character: Marv
Released: March 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Death of his wife's pet poodle and a threatening movie producer create a world of trouble for a middle-aged B-movie mogul. He hires two psychopathic goons to take care of it, which only creates more trouble and attracts the cops.
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Sid and Nancy
Title: Sid and Nancy
Character: Methadone Caseworker
Released: September 12, 1986
Type: Movie
January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.
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Repo Man
Title: Repo Man
Character: Lite
Released: March 2, 1984
Type: Movie
A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
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My Brother's Wedding
Title: My Brother's Wedding
Character: Mr. Dubois
Released: September 13, 1983
Type: Movie
A young African-American man living in Los Angeles without direction in his life reluctantly agrees to be best man at his brother, an upwardly mobile lawyer's, wedding.
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Nocturna
Title: Nocturna
Character: RH Factor
Released: June 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Hard times have fallen on the Transylvanian House of Dracula. To help pay the taxes, Castle Dracula has been converted into the Hotel Transylvania. Dracula himself is aging and toothless, being cared for by his granddaughter Nocturna. When Nocturna books a disco group to play The Claret Room and winds up falling in love with one of the backup guitarists, a mortal named Jimmy, she notices that she is able to see her reflection when she dances, so she decides to follow Jimmy to New York in search of mortality.
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Fairy Tales
Title: Fairy Tales
Character: Sirus
Released: August 1, 1978
Type: Movie
On his twenty-first birthday, the Prince goes on a quest that takes him across the land searching for the one woman that gets him sexually excited, Princess Sleeping Beauty.
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Petey Wheatstraw
Title: Petey Wheatstraw
Character: Petey's Father
Released: November 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore) is a candidate to become the devil's son-in-law. The storyline is a scaffolding on which Rudy Ray Moore's standup humor can be unfolded. Beginning life as the afterbirth to a watermelon, the young Wheatstraw becomes a martial artist, but is unable to best the evil comedy team of Leroy and Skillet, who also indulge in wholesale murder. Satan restores the comedians' victims to life, and charges Petey with the task of marrying his clock-stoppingly ugly daughter to give him a grandchild. When Petey attempts to default on the deal, he is pursued by the devil's henchmen.
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Cinderella
Title: Cinderella
Character: Fairy Godmother
Released: May 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Cinderella, with the help of her "fairy" godmother, is granted heightened sexual prowess to win over Prince Charming. After a blindfolded orgy at the royal castle, the nerdy Prince must sleep with every willing woman in his kingdom until he finds that one, mysterious lover who so "stood out" on the night of the sex Ball.