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Deuces (film)
''Deuces'' is an American crime drama written and directed by Jamal Hill. The film stars Larenz Tate, Meagan Good, Lance Gross and Siya. The film is executive produced by Queen Latifah for her production company Flavor Unit Entertainment. ''Deuces'' premiered on Netflix on April 1, 2017. Synopsis Detective Jason Foster goes undercover to take down a crime ring that has been impenetrable by the police department for years. However, Foster finds himself drawn in by the unique persona of ringleader Stephen "Deuces" Brooks and the dual life that he leads. The mission is further complicated when Foster's sister Janet also falls under Deuce's spell. Cast * Larenz Tate as Stephen “Deuces” Brooks * Meagan Good as Janet Foster * Lance Gross as Jason Foster * Siya as Diggs * Antonique Smith as Tanya * La La Anthony as Detective Sonya Diaz * Rick Gonzalez as Papers * Rotimi as Face * Andra Fuller as Detective Solomon Garret See also * List of hood films This is a list of hood f ...
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Larenz Tate
Larenz Tate (born September 8, 1975) is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles as O-Dog in ''Menace II Society'' and as Councilman Rashad Tate in ''Power''. Tate's other films and television series include the films ''Dead Presidents'', '' Love Jones'', ''A Man Apart'', ''Crash'', ''Waist Deep'', ''Ray'' and the television series '' Rush'' and '' Game of Silence''. Early life Larenz Tate was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Peggy and Larry Tate. He is the youngest of three siblings; his two brothers, Larron and Lahmard, are also actors. The family moved to California during the early 1980s. Convinced by their parents to enter a drama program at the Inner City Cultural Center, the trio did not take the lessons seriously until classmate Malcolm-Jamal Warner's ascent to fame after being cast on the sitcom '' The Cosby Show''. Subsequently, realizing that they could parlay their efforts into a tangible form of success, the siblings began to receive sma ...
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La La Anthony
Alani Nicole "La La" Anthony (née Vázquez; born June 25, 1979 ) is an American television personality and actress. In the early 2000s, she worked as an MTV VJ on ''Total Request Live''. She was the host of the VH1 reality television reunion shows ''Flavor of Love'', ''I Love New York'', ''For the Love of Ray J'', and ''Real Chance of Love'', and was a dean on ''Charm School with Ricki Lake''. Anthony appeared in '' Two Can Play That Game'' (2001), ''You Got Served'' (2004), '' Think Like a Man'' (2012), '' Think Like a Man 2'' (2014), ''November Rule'' (2015) and ''Destined'' (2015). She appeared as Lakeisha Grant in the Starz original drama series ''Power''. She hosted the American reality television series ''La La's Full Court Wedding'' and ''La La's Full Court Life''. She married NBA player Carmelo Anthony in 2010. Early life Anthony was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents are of Puerto Rican heritage born and raised in New York City. Anthony (who describes herself a ...
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Hood Films
Hood film is a 1990s film genre originating in the United States, which features aspects of urban African American or Hispanic American culture. John Singleton, Mario Van Peebles, F. Gary Gray, Hughes Brothers, and Spike Lee are all directors who have created work typically classified as part of this genre. The genre has been identified as a sub-genre of the gangster film genre. The genre has since spread outside the US, to places such as the UK and Canada. Hood films have been variously described under a wide-array of names by critics, such as 'street-gang', 'ghetto-centric', 'action-crime-adventure', 'gangsta rap films', 'black action films', 'new black realism', 'new jack cinema', and 'black urban cinema'. Spike Lee disparagingly referred to the genre as 'hiphop, urban drama, ghetto film'. Criteria Characteristics include hip hop music (including gangsta rap), street gangs, racial discrimination, organized crime/ gangster, gang affiliation scenes, drug use and traffic ...
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American Crime Drama Films
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2017 Films
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List Of Hood Films
This is a list of hood films – films focusing on the culture and life of African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and/or in some cases, Asian Americans living in segregated, low-income urban communities, as well as comparably deprived and crime-ridden communities in other countries such as the UK. List of hood films 1970s *''The Harder They Come'', 1972 *''Cooley High'', 1975 *'' Walk Proud'', 1979 1980s *'' The Outsiders'', 1983 *'' Rumble Fish'', 1983 *''Colors'', 1988 *''Do the Right Thing'', 1989 1990s *''King of New York'', 1990 *''New Jack City'', 1991 *''Boyz n the Hood'', 1991 *'' Straight Out of Brooklyn'', 1991 *''Deep Cover'', 1992 *''Juice'', 1992 *'' Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.'', 1992 *''American Me'', 1992 *'' South Central'', 1992 *''Trespass'', 1992 *''Menace II Society'', 1993 *''Blood In Blood Out'', 1993 *''Strapped'', 1993 *'' Poetic Justice'', 1993 *''Above the Rim'', 1994 *'' I Like It Like That'', 1994 *'' Sugar Hill'', 1994 *'' Mi Vida Loca'', 1994 ...
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Andra Fuller
Andra Fuller (born May 29, 1979 in Houston, Texas) is an American actor and stand-up comedian, best known for his role in The CW drama series '' The L.A. Complex''. Early life The youngest of three siblings, he was educated at Baylor University where he was President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Career Fuller has described the pinnacle of his stand-up career as performing at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York; moving to Los Angeles in 2008, however, he found far less opportunity for his work as a comedian. Instead, he enjoys work in dramatic roles on the big screen, television and stage with projects like The Game, You Can't Fight Christmas, Another Man Will, True to the Game, Love by the 10th Date, Deuces and The LA Complex. Apart from ''The L.A. Complex'', he has worked on Black&Sexy TV, Issa Rae's ''Roomieloverfriends'', and Aaron McGruder's comedy series, ''Black Jesus'', which attracted criticism for its depiction of Christ in a twentieth-century inner city ...
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Rotimi (actor)
Olurotimi Akinosho (born November 30, 1988), known professionally as Rotimi, is an Nigerian-American actor and singer. He is known for his role as Darius Morrison on the Starz series ''Boss'', and as Andre Coleman on ''Power''. Early life and education Rotimi was born in Maplewood, New Jersey and raised in a Nigerian household. He attended Columbia High School, where he was on both the varsity basketball team and the choir. He continued his studies at Northwestern University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Communication with a minor in Business in 2010. Career Acting At his first trial with acting, Rotimi auditioned and subsequently got his first acting role on ''Boss'' as drug dealer Darius Morrison.Rotimi Gives Power Season 3 Hints + Making Music with 50 Cent
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Rick Gonzalez
Rick Gonzalez (born June 30, 1979) is an American actor and musician. He is known for his roles as Timo Cruz in the motion picture ''Coach Carter'', as Spanish in '' Old School'', as Ben Gonzalez on the CW supernatural drama television series ''Reaper'', and as Naps In '' Roll Bounce''. From 2016–2020, he portrayed the superhero vigilante character Rene Ramirez / Wild Dog on the CW superhero drama series ''Arrow''. In 2021, he starred in the TV series adaptation of ''The Lost Symbol''. Early life Gonzalez was born in New York City, of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent. His parents met in Washington, DC, where they married. They moved and settled down in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn where they raised Gonzalez.Arispe, Rudy"New World Man" ''San Antonio Express-News'', June 30, 2005. Accessed June 8, 2009. "I'm from Bushwick (an area of Brooklyn)..." His parents were later divorced. He attended elementary and junior high school while living in Brooklyn. Ever since he was ...
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Antonique Smith
Antonique Smith (born August 11, 1983) is an American actress and singer. Life and career Smith was born in East Orange, New Jersey. She starred as Mimi in Jonathan Larson's Broadway production of ''Rent''. She was also the poster girl for ''Rent'', displayed on taxi cabs in New York City and posters across the country. She left the role of Mimi to record her album and expand her film career. Smith made her television debut in Sidney Lumet's ''100 Centre Street'', playing a teen drug addict. Smith played Faith Evans in '' Notorious'', based on the life of Evans' late husband, rapper The Notorious B.I.G. She received rave reviews. ''The Los Angeles Times'' called her "delicious in the role", while ''Rolling Stone'' said she was "terrific". Smith played CIA agent Sandra Burns in the action movie ''Abduction'' with Taylor Lautner and Alfred Molina. In the same year she played Ola O' Hara in the film ''Yelling to the Sky'' with Zoe Kravitz and Gabourey Sidibe and Jason Clarke. ...
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Meagan Good
Meagan Monique Good is an American actress. She first gained critical attention for her role in the film ''Eve's Bayou'' (1997), prior to landing the role of Nina in the Nickelodeon sitcom ''Cousin Skeeter'' (1998–2001). Good received further prominence after starring in the films ''Deliver Us from Eva'' (2003), ''Roll Bounce'' (2005), and ''Stomp the Yard'' (2007). In 2012, Good featured in an ensemble cast of the film ''Think Like a Man''. The following year, she played Joanna Locasto, the lead character on the NBC drama series '' Deception''; and starred in the comedy '' Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.'' Furthermore, Good has had supporting roles in the films ''One Missed Call'' (2008), ''Saw V'' (2008), '' The Unborn'' (2009) and DC Comics' '' Shazam!'' (2019). Early life and family Good was born in the Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her mother, Tyra Wardlow-Doyle, worked as Good's manager into her teens, and her father, Leondis "Leon" Good, is an LAPD po ...
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Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ' retweet' tweets, while unregistered users only have the ability to read public tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. , more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". , Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. In practice, the va ...
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