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Tory Kittles
Tory Kittles is an American actor. He has appeared in the films ''Malibu's Most Wanted'' (2003), ''Get Rich or Die Tryin''' (2005), ''Next'' (2007), ''Miracle at St. Anna'' (2008), and ''Dragged Across Concrete'' (2018). He is known mostly for his television roles; he portrayed Laroy in ''Sons of Anarchy'' (2008–2011), and Broussard in ''Colony'' (2016–2018). He has also appeared in ''True Detective ''True Detective'' is an American anthology crime drama television series created and written by Nic Pizzolatto. The series, broadcast by the premium cable network HBO in the United States, premiered on January 12, 2014. Each season of the ...'' (2014) and '' The Equalizer'' (2021-present) as Detective Marcus Dante. Filmography Film Television References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kittles, Tory Living people American male film actors African-American male actors American male television actors 21st-century American male actors 20th-century American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawtey, Florida
Lawtey is a city in Bradford County, Florida, United States. The population was 730 at the 2010 census, up from 656 in 2000. The city has received national attention and earned the dubious distinction of being one of only two official speed traps designated by the American Automobile Association (the other being Waldo a few miles to the south). However, the label was removed by AAA in August 2018 after reforms by current police chief Shane Bennett. Geography Lawtey is located in northern Bradford County at . It is north of the county seat, Starke, by U.S. Route 301. To the north it is to Interstate 10 at the town of Baldwin. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 656 people, 259 households, and 182 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 295 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 64.79% White, 32.16% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankenfish
''Frankenfish'' is a 2004 American horror film dealing with genetically engineered fish in the bayou. Filmed in Baldwin County, Alabama, a pack of massive, bloodthirsty, genetically engineered fish combing the quiet waters of the river in the Louisiana Bayou, searching for prey. Based on the Crofton, Maryland#Crofton pond snakehead fish incident, snakehead fish incident in a Crofton, Maryland, pond, ''Frankenfish'' is one of three films based on the incident, the others being ''Snakehead Terror'' and ''Swarm of the Snakehead''. Plot Fishermen John Crankton is killed by an unseen animal. The next day, medical examiner Sam Rivers and biologist Mary Callahan travel into the bayou to investigate John's mysterious death. Having grown up in the area, Sam is comfortable in his surroundings while Mary is not. They find Elmer noodling for catfish in the swamp canals. With Elmer, Sam and Mary travel upriver to the fishing community. They meet Gloria and Eliza Crankton, John's wife and daugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. It was in response to this disbelief that Douglass wrote his first autobiography. Douglass wrote three autobiographies, describing his experiences as a slave in his ''Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave'' (1845), which became a bestseller and was influential in promoting t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet (film)
''Harriet'' is a 2019 American biographical film directed by Kasi Lemmons, who also wrote the screenplay with Gregory Allen Howard. It stars Cynthia Erivo as abolitionist Harriet Tubman, with Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, and Janelle Monáe in supporting roles. A biography about Harriet Tubman had been in the works for years, with several actresses, including Viola Davis, rumored to star. Erivo was cast in February 2017, and much of the cast and crew joined the following year. Filming took place in Virginia from October to December 2018. ''Harriet'' had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 1, 2019, by Focus Features. It received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised Erivo's performance and found the film sincere but formulaic, and was a moderate commercial success, grossing $43 million worldwide against its production budget of $17 million. The film recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bessie (film)
''Bessie'' is an HBO TV film about the American blues singer Bessie Smith, and focuses on her transformation as a struggling young singer into "The Empress of the Blues". The film is directed by Dee Rees, with a screenplay by Rees, Christopher Cleveland and Bettina Gilois. Queen Latifah stars as Smith, and supporting roles are played by Michael Kenneth Williams as Smith's first husband Jack Gee, and Mo'Nique as Ma Rainey. The film premiered on May 16, 2015. By the following year ''Bessie'' was the most watched HBO original film in the network's history. The film was well received critically and garnered four Primetime Emmy Awards, winning for Outstanding Television Movie. Synopsis Bessie Smith (Queen Latifah) is a young singer from Chattanooga, Tennessee. She and her siblings are orphaned when their parents, William and Laura, die, leaving their oldest sister, Viola (Khandi Alexander), to raise them. Viola is abusive and vicious and Bessie's childhood is unhappy. She along wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Heist
''American Heist'' is a 2014 action drama film directed by Russian director Sarik Andreasyan, based on the 1959 film ''The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery'' directed by Charles Guggenheim and John Stix. The film stars Hayden Christensen, Jordana Brewster, Adrien Brody and Akon. It had its world premiere in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2014, and was released theatrically in Canada on July 24, 2015, by Mongrel Media. Plot James (Hayden Christensen), a man with nothing to lose, owes his life to his older brother Frankie (Adrien Brody), who took the rap for a crime they did together. While Frankie served time, James worked to turn his life around, he manages to get a job as a mechanic, and begins courting his girlfriend Emily (Jordana Brewster), a police dispatcher. Now, Frankie is released and back on the streets and pulls his brother into a heist to serve as wheel man. Initially James refuses. The heist is planned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympus Has Fallen
''Olympus Has Fallen'' is a 2013 American action thriller film directed and co-produced by Antoine Fuqua from a screenplay written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, and is the first installment in the ''Has Fallen'' film series. The film stars Gerard Butler (who also co-produced), Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman with Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Cole Hauser, Ashley Judd, Melissa Leo, Dylan McDermott, Radha Mitchell, and Rick Yune in supporting roles. The plot depicts a North Korean-led Guerrilla warfare, guerrilla assault on the White House, and focuses on disgraced United States Secret Service, Secret Service agent Mike Banning's efforts to rescue U.S. President Benjamin Asher. The film was released in the United States on March 22, 2013, by FilmDistrict, and grossed $170 million against a $70 million production budget. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Fuqua's direction and Butler's performance, but criticized the overt violence and scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steel Magnolias (2012 Film)
''Steel Magnolias'' is an American comedy-drama television film directed by Kenny Leon that premiered at Lifetime Network on October 7, 2012. It is a contemporary retelling of the play '' Steel Magnolias'' and its 1989 film adaptation. The new film stars an all-black American cast, including Queen Latifah as M'Lynn, Jill Scott as Truvy, Condola Rashād as Shelby, Adepero Oduye as Annelle, with Phylicia Rashād as Clairee and Alfre Woodard as Ouiser. Cast *Queen Latifah as Mary Lynn "M'Lynn" Eatenton * Jill Scott as Truvy Jones *Alfre Woodard as Louisa "Ouiser" Boudreaux *Adepero Oduye as Annelle Dupuy-DeSoto * Phylicia Rashād as Clairee Belcher *Condola Rashād as Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie *Lance Gross as Sammy DeSoto *Michael Beasley as Spud Jones *Tory Kittles as Jackson Latcherie * Afemo Omilami as Drum Eatenton *Demetrius Bridges as Jonathan Eatenton *Justin Martin as Tommy Eatenton *Jeff Rose as Dr. Judd Reception Critical reception The film has been met with positive revi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sapphires (film)
''The Sapphires'' is a 2012 Australian Musical film, musical comedy-drama film based on the 2004 stage play ''The Sapphires (play), The Sapphires'' by Tony Briggs, which is loosely based on a real-life 1960s girl group that included Briggs's mother and aunt.Usher, Robin (15 November 2004)"Sparkle, in any colour" ''The Age''. Archived frothe originalon 22 March 2013. The film is directed by Wayne Blair (director), Wayne Blair and written by Keith Thompson and Briggs. ''The Sapphires'' is about four Yorta Yorta (Aboriginal Australian) women, Gail (Deborah Mailman), Julie (Jessica Mauboy), Kay (Shari Sebbens) and Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell), who are discovered by a talent scout (Chris O'Dowd), and form a music group named The Sapphires, travelling to Vietnam in 1968 to sing for troops during the 1968 in the Vietnam War, war. Production began in 2010, with the casting of the four members of The Sapphires; filming took place in and around Albury, Australia, as well as in and around Ho C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kill Hole
''The Kill Hole'' is a 2012 American action thriller war film written and directed by Mischa S. Webley and starring Chadwick Boseman, Tory Kittles, Dennis Adkins, Victoria Blake, Ted Rooney with Peter Greene and Billy Zane. It is Webley's directorial debut. Plot The shadow of war follows a troubled Iraq War vet as he is forced to pursue one of his own into the Pacific Northwest wilderness to finally confront a war crime that has haunted them both. Lt. Samuel Drake is a troubled vet plagued by his actions while deployed in Iraq. Recently discharged, he is trying to piece his life back together while he works as a cab driver and lives in a rundown motel room. He also attends counseling sessions led by Marshall to help cope with the horrors of his past. While on this path to a fresh start, Drake's fragile new life is shattered when two executives, who represent a private military contractor, present a new mission, one with no option to refuse; track down and kill Sgt. Devin Carter, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chameleon (2010 Film)
''The Chameleon'' is a 2010 drama film directed by Jean-Paul Salomé, who co-wrote the screenplay with Natalie Carter. The film is based upon the true story of Frédéric Bourdin who impersonated a missing child named Nicholas Barclay in San Antonio, Texas, in the 1990s. Much of the true story was incorporated into the film although the years have been altered and the location was moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Plot A young man (Marc-André Grondin) in France shaves off all his body hair and turns himself in to the police. The man claims to be a 16-year-old boy from Louisiana named Nicholas Mark Randall, who had been missing for four years. His story is that he was kidnapped by a child prostitution ring in France who physically altered his appearance. He is reunited with his family who immediately have their suspicions regarding his story. His mother (Ellen Barkin) and half brother Brendan (Nick Stahl) do not seem to accept him, and many questions are open regarding whether ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Perfect Getaway
''A Perfect Getaway'' is a 2009 American thriller film written and directed by David Twohy and starring Timothy Olyphant, Milla Jovovich, Kiele Sanchez, and Steve Zahn. Olyphant, Jovovich, Sanchez, and Zahn portray a group of vacationing couples in Hawaii who find their lives in danger when murders begin to occur on the island, leading to suspicions over one of the couples being the killers. Shot in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, ''A Perfect Getaway'' was released on August 7, 2009, in the United States. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $22 million on a $14 million budget. Plot For their honeymoon, newlyweds Cliff and Cydney travel to Hawaii. After making a travel video in the car, the two spend the night in a hotel before driving off in order to start hiking towards a remote beach. Whilst in the car, the two encounter fellow couple; kind-hearted Cleo who attempts to hitchhike with them and hot-headed Kale who takes Cleo away from the two. On the hike, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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