Biography: With an authoritative voice, this calmly demeaning and ever popular African American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Born in June 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, the young Freeman attended Los Angeles Community College before serving several years in the US Air Force as a mechanic between 1955 and 1959. His first dramatic arts exposure was on the stage and h ... show all With an authoritative voice, this calmly demeaning and ever popular African American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Born in June 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, the young Freeman attended Los Angeles Community College before serving several years in the US Air Force as a mechanic between 1955 and 1959. His first dramatic arts exposure was on the stage and he appeared in an off Broadway production of "The Nigger Lovers" and also in an all-African American production of the exuberant musical "Hello, Dolly! (1969)".
Freeman first appeared on TV screens as several characters including Easy Reader, Mel Mounds, and Count Dracula on the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop) show "Electric Company, The" (1971)". He then moved into feature film with another children's adventure, "Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow? (1971)". Next there was a small role in the thriller "Blade (1973)"; then he played Casca in "Julius Caesar (1979/II) " and the title role in "Coriolanus (1979)". Regular work was coming in for the talented Freeman and he appeared in the prison dramas "Attica (1980) (TV)" and "Brubaker (1980)", the slow-moving "Eyewitness (1981)", and portrayed the final 24 hours of slain Malcolm X in "Death of a Prophet (1981)".
For most of the 1980s, Freeman continued to contribute decent enough performances in films that fluctuated in their quality. However, he really stood out, scoring an Oscar nomination as a merciless hoodlum in "Street Smart (1987/I)", and then he dazzled audiences and pulled a second Oscar nomination as the patient and dignified chauffeur assisting moody pensioner Jessica Tandy in the delightful "Driving Miss Daisy (1989)". The same year, Freeman teamed up with youthful Matthew Broderick and fiery Denzel Washington in the epic Civil War drama "Glory (1989)" about freed slaves being recruited to form the first all-African American fighting brigade.
His star continued to rise, and the 1990s kicked off strongly with roles in "The Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)" and "Power of One (1992)". Freeman's next role was as gunman Ned Logan, wooed out of retirement by friend William Munny to avenge several prostitutes in the wild west town of Big Whiskey in Clint Eastwood's de-mythologized western "Unforgiven (1992)". The film was a critical and box-office smash and scored an acting Oscar for Gene Hackman, a directing Oscar for Eastwood, and the Oscar for best picture.
Freeman's work did not go unnoticed, more strong scripts came in, and he was back behind bars depicting a knowledgeable inmate (and obtaining his third Oscar nomination), befriending falsely accused banker Tim Robbins in the uplifting "The Shawshank Redemption (1994)". He was then back out hunting a religious serial killer in "Se7en (1995)", starred alongside Keanu Reeves in "Chain Reaction (1996)", and was pursuing another serial murderer in "Kiss the Girls (1997)".
Further praise followed for his role in the slave tale of "The Amistad (1997)", he was a worried US President facing Armageddon from above in "Deep Impact (1998)", appeared in the loopy Neil LaBute black comedy "Nurse Betty (2000)", and reprised his role as "Alex Cross" in "Along Came a Spider (2001)". Now highly popular, he was much in demand with cinema audiences, and he co-starred in the terrorist drama "Sum of All Fears (2002)", was a military officer in the Stephen King -inspired "The Dreamcatcher (2003)", gave divine guidance as God to Jim Carrey in the very funny "Bruce Almighty (2003)", and played a minor role in the uneven comedy "Big Bounce (2004)".
However, 2005 was finally to be Morgan Freeman's year, when again he teamed up with good friend Clint Eastwood to appear in the heart-wrenching drama, "Million Dollar Baby (2004)". Freeman's on-screen performance is simply world-class as ex-prize fighter Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris, who works in a run-down boxing gym alongside grizzled trainer Frankie Dunn, as the two work together to hone the skills of never-say-die female boxer Hilary Swank. Freeman received his fourth Oscar nomination and, finally, impressed the Academy's judges enough to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance.
In addition to his film work, his commanding yet mellifluous voice has also led Freeman to be cast to narrate or host dozens of first-rate television specials covering topics from the American Civil War, the American Film Institute, blues music, the White House, and many commemorative events involving the US film industry, most recently as the narrator of the American version of "Marche de l'empereur, La (2005)". hide |
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| While San Juan celebrates San Sebastian's Feast, recently-divorced and world-weary police captain Victor Benezet calls in prominent attorney Henry Hearst to clarify his statement about discovering the body of a girl of about 12, the second such murder in two weeks. As Hearst answers unconvincingly, Benezet reveals circumstantial evidence: the lawyer is under suspicion. The interrogation strips away Hearst's dignity, public persona, and even his toupee, exposing a breech with his beautiful and much younger wife, questionable sexual predilections and a damning hobby. Then, Hearst's wife volunteers information that confirms police suspicions. Is Hearst finally at the breaking point? |
Categories: 2000, Crime, Drama, France, Thriller, USA
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| While San Juan celebrates San Sebastian's Feast, recently-divorced and world-weary police captain Victor Benezet calls in prominent attorney Henry Hearst to clarify his statement about discovering the body of a girl of about 12, the second such murder in two weeks. As Hearst answers unconvincingly, Benezet reveals circumstantial evidence: the lawyer is under suspicion. The interrogation strips away Hearst's dignity, public persona, and even his toupee, exposing a breech with his beautiful and much younger wife, questionable sexual predilections and a damning hobby. Then, Hearst's wife volunteers information that confirms police suspicions. Is Hearst finally at the breaking point? |
Categories: 2000, Crime, Drama, France, Thriller, USA
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| 'Nelson Mandela' (qv)'s release from prison and his ascent to a democratically elected President of South Africa marks a radical change in the country. This change away from apartheid will not be easy for anyone in the country, but Mandela has to figure out how to galvanize the residents of the country together. Because of his love of the game, Mandela places his support behind the Springboks, the national rugby team. South Africa is hosting the 1995 Rugby World Cup, that being the only reason the Springboks are even competing in the tournament as its years on the sideline of world rugby events has not made it world ranked. The Springboks were previously considered the team of white South Africa, and as such was denounced by Mandela when he was in prison. But he does whatever he can to make it the team of all South Africa. He needs the support of the Springboks and its captain, 'Francois Pienaar' (qv), to achieve his unrealistic goal of the Springboks winning the World Cup, even against such rugby powerhouses the All-Blacks representing New Zealand. Mandela tries to inspire Pienaar to lead by example, much like Mandela has himself. Beyond Mandela's dream, his racially mixed security team has the added pressure of protecting him at the Springboks' matches while he places himself in potentially unprotectable situations. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Biography, Drama, History, Sport, USA
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| A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States." Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Documentary, USA
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| In July of 1967, In Motaba River Valley, Zaire, a virus with a 100% mortality rate starts infecting people. The virus becomes known as the Motaba virus, and it's so deadly that it causes severe bleeding and liquefies internal organs, killing within 3 days. The virus wipes out Motaba River Valley, and a devastatingly huge fire bomb is dropped onto Motaba River Valley in order to reduce the chances of further infection. The bomb was dropped on the orders of corrupt General Donald McClintock, even though an army surgeon, General Bill Ford, was against the idea. 27 years later, in 1994, there is another outbreak in Motaba River Valley. At the United States Army Research Insitiute of Infectious Diseases (USARIID), located at Fort Detrick in Maryland, Colonel Sam Daniels is doing research on the Motaba virus, and so is his ex-wife Roberta Keough, who works at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. A monkey carrying the Motaba virus stows away on a ship that is heading for the USA, and after the monkey's arrival, people in Cedar Creek, California start becoming infected by the virus. Sam and Roberta head into Cedar Creek with fellow doctor Casey Schuler, and they start searching for the monkey, thinking that the monkey is the key to finding a cure. Along the way, Sam stumbles onto some information that may be of help — McClintock has been concealing vital information from the president of the United States. Since 1967, McClintock and Ford have been in possession of E-1101, a serum that was made to cure the virus. McClintock has been trying to stop Ford from coming forward with this information, and so far, McClintock has succeeded. McClintock now wants to drop onto Cedar Creek the kind of firebomb that was dropped on Motaba River Valley 27 years ago. Sam and Roberta figure out that the virus in the Cedar Creek outbreak is a new strain of the Motaba virus — an airborne strain that is even more contagious than the flu. When a new serum is made to stop the new strain, Sam and Roberta set out to stop McClintock from having the town blown up. Search keywords
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Categories: 1995, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA
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| In July of 1967, In Motaba River Valley, Zaire, a virus with a 100% mortality rate starts infecting people. The virus becomes known as the Motaba virus, and it's so deadly that it causes severe bleeding and liquefies internal organs, killing within 3 days. The virus wipes out Motaba River Valley, and a devastatingly huge fire bomb is dropped onto Motaba River Valley in order to reduce the chances of further infection. The bomb was dropped on the orders of corrupt General Donald McClintock, even though an army surgeon, General Bill Ford, was against the idea. 27 years later, in 1994, there is another outbreak in Motaba River Valley. At the United States Army Research Insitiute of Infectious Diseases (USARIID), located at Fort Detrick in Maryland, Colonel Sam Daniels is doing research on the Motaba virus, and so is his ex-wife Roberta Keough, who works at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. A monkey carrying the Motaba virus stows away on a ship that is heading for the USA, and after the monkey's arrival, people in Cedar Creek, California start becoming infected by the virus. Sam and Roberta head into Cedar Creek with fellow doctor Casey Schuler, and they start searching for the monkey, thinking that the monkey is the key to finding a cure. Along the way, Sam stumbles onto some information that may be of help — McClintock has been concealing vital information from the president of the United States. Since 1967, McClintock and Ford have been in possession of E-1101, a serum that was made to cure the virus. McClintock has been trying to stop Ford from coming forward with this information, and so far, McClintock has succeeded. McClintock now wants to drop onto Cedar Creek the kind of firebomb that was dropped on Motaba River Valley 27 years ago. Sam and Roberta figure out that the virus in the Cedar Creek outbreak is a new strain of the Motaba virus — an airborne strain that is even more contagious than the flu. When a new serum is made to stop the new strain, Sam and Roberta set out to stop McClintock from having the town blown up. Search keywords
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Categories: 1995, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA
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| A team of scientists deduces a machine and process to use regular water to produce energy. After the celebration of their sucess the industrial warehouse that was home to their experiment is blown to flaming bits. With one member of the team dead and another missing two other members are the object of FBI scrutiny. They go on the run with the feds hot on their tails. The two lead the FBI to a secret underground facility where they find a replica of their machine and the missing scientist. A government conspiracy is unmasked and an exciting escape must be tried as the machine is started up and set to blow yet another crater in the Earth. Search keywords
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Categories: 1996, Action, Drama, Thriller, USA
Categories: 2003, Drama, USA
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| A teacher at a school for children of politicians kidnaps a senator's daughter after 2 years. He is revealed to be a criminal wearing a mask of the teacher and contacts a criminal psychologist to play cat and mouse. Cross believes he is being involved to ensure the kidnapper will attain fame. Confirmed by copycat of the Lindenburgh kidnapping and books about the case found in his hideout. However it is a deception using an unsuspecting accomplice and hides another plot the profiler is blind to. Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Canada, Crime, Germany, Mystery, Thriller, USA
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| A comedy centered on three museum security guards who devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are transferred to another museum. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Comedy, Crime, USA
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| An extraordinary situation calls for an extraordinary solution. At strife-torn Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, that solution had a name: Principal "Crazy Joe" Clark. With a bullhorn in one hand and a baseball bat in the other, he slammed the door on losers at Eastside. Brought in as a last resort to stop the state government from taking control of the school, Clark chained the doors shut to keep troublemakers OUT and achievers IN. Parents fought him. Teachers resented him. Even his own boss doubted him. But lots of kids loved him. Clark turned Eastside around, appearing on the cover of "Time Magazine" and becoming a national symbol of tough-love education. "If you don't succeed in life," Clark tells his students, "don't blame your backgrounds. Don't blame the Establishment. Blame YOURSELVES." His message is simple: Don't lean on excuses, drugs, crime, or anger. LEAN ON ME...and learn. Search keywords
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Categories: 1989, Drama, USA
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| A virus similar to Ebola & Lassa is discovered in Africa in 1969. 25 years later, it resurfaces - and Col. Sam Daniels of the U.S. Army is sent in to investigate it. When he returns he warns his boss, Brigadier-Gen. Ford, of the lethal nature of the virus and wants to put out an alert. Ford, who had been one of the men who first dealt with the virus, insists the virus is contained and unlikely to show up in the U.S. What neither man knows is that the host - a monkey - has been brought into the U.S. by freighter. Through an under-the-table bribe, a young man gets the monkey out of the animal-testing lab it was bound for. Soon, the man is infected - and Col. Daniels' ex-wife, Dr. Keough - now with the CDC - is called into Boston when the young man is brought to a hospital in critical condition. Dr. Keough discovers that the man has died from the virus, and at the same time - on the other side of the country - a new outbreak is starting in a little California town. A quarantine is set up to stop the virus from spreading, while Ford's boss, the sinister Major-Gen. McClintock, has his own agenda in mind - to harness this lethal bug for use as a bioweapon. With the President about to order a fuel-air bomb to be dropped on the little town to stop the outbreak, Daniels must find a way to unravel McClintock's sinister plan... Search keywords
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Categories: 1995, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA
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| Josh Pollack, a naive and ambitious reporter, is convinced the F.R.A.T., an elite force within the Edison Police Department, is corrupted. Working on a homicide case, he begins to unearth evidence which suggests that the entire justice system is willingly turning a blind eye to the abuses of the this force. When his life and that of his girlfriend are threatened from his research, he join forces with his editor, a once-famous reporter, and a renown private detective to bring down the F.R.A.T. and every one behind it. Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| Washington DC detective Dr. Alex Cross travels to North Carolina to investigate the apparent kidnapping of his niece. Aided by escaped kidnapee Kate McTiernan, Cross hunts down the kidnapper, who operates under the pseudonym "Casanova". Search keywords
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Categories: 1997, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, USA
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| Henry Brubaker is the new host is from Wakefield Prison. He makes entrance is a prisoner in order to obtain convict's-eye-view of the real state of the institution. His horror, he finds all manner of abuse and corruption, which, after disclosing his real identity, she sets out to correct.
Henry Brubaker on uusi isäntä on Wakefield vankilassa. Hän tekee sisäänkäynti on vanki saadakseen convict's-eye-view-osa todellisesta tilasta laitokselle. Hänen kauhu hän löytää kaikki tavalla väärinkäyttöä ja korruptiota, jonka jälkeen luovuttanut hänen todellinen henkilöllisyytensä, hän esitetään korjata. Search keywords
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Categories: 1980, Drama, USA
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| Having landed in the wrong place in bad time, Slevin (Josh Hartnett) must kill the Rabbi (Well Kingsley) to abolish a 96.000$ debt to the Boss (Morgan Freeman) and to reimburse 33.000$ to the Rabbi. He cannot go to the police and he cannot leave the city. On the top of all that, behind Mr of the stage. Blacksmith aka Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis) conspires secretly to kill Slevin.
Après avoir atterri dans l'endroit faux au mauvais temps, Slevin (Josh Hartnett) doit tuer le Rabbin (Ben Kingsley) pour supprimer une dette de 96.000$ au Patron (Morgan Freeman) et rembourser 33.000$ au Rabbin. Il ne peut pas aller chez la police et il ne peut pas quitter la ville. Sur le haut de tout cela, derrière le M. de la scène. Forgeron aka M.. Goodkat (Bruce Willis) conspire secrètement pour tuer Slevin. Search keywords
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Categories: 2006, Crime, Drama, Germany, Thriller, USA
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| When the president of Russia dies suddenly, a man whose policy is unknown practically succeeds it. The change in the political paranoia of leaders' sparks among the American civil servants of CIA, therefore manager of CIA BILL CABOT recruits a young analyst to give outline and advice regarding situation. Then the unthinkable arrives: a nuclear bomb blows up in one U. S. the city and America are quick to criticise the Russians.
Quand le président de la Russie meurt subitement, un homme dont la politique est inconnue pratiquement lui succède. Le changement dans la paranoïa d'étincelles de chefs politique parmi les fonctionnaires de CIA américains, donc directeur de CIA Bill Cabot recrute un jeune analyste pour fournir l'aperçu et le conseil à propos de la situation. Alors l'impensable arrive : une bombe nucléaire explose dans un U. S. la ville et l'Amérique sont rapides pour blâmer les Russes. Search keywords
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Categories: 2002, Action, Drama, Germany, Thriller, USA
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| Bruce Nolan (Carrey), a reporter of television to Buffalo, N. THERE. everything in life in spite of his popularity and love of his girlfriend, Favour (Aniston) is discontented of almost. At the end of the worst day of his life, Bruce makes fun with anger and rages against God and God answers. God appears in human form (Freeman) and, by endowing Bruce with divine powers, challenge Bruce to engage big job see if he can make him a little better.
Bruce Nolan (Carrey), un reporter de télévision à Buffle, N. Y. , est mécontent de presque tout dans la vie en dépit de sa popularité et l'amour de sa petite amie, la Grâce (Aniston). À la fin du pire jour de sa vie, Bruce se moque avec colère et fait rage contre Dieu et Dieu répond. Dieu apparaît dans la forme humaine (Freeman) et, en dotant Bruce avec les pouvoirs divins, défie Bruce d'embaucher le grand travail voir s'il peut le faire un peu mieux. Search keywords
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Categories: 2003, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, USA
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| Directly having taken out the plan of the Al Ghul de Ra and the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Jonathan Crane l' Épouvantail d' AKA, Prescription continues its obviously endless effort to bring in justice for the crime of Gotham and corrupted with the help of Lt. James Gordon and new prosecutor de la République named Harvey Dent. But this time, the Dark Knight faces up a criminal going up psychopath called the Joker, which is frightening smile makes him more dangerous than what he must again drop. It becomes an agenda to both enemies that only one of them every part of in what remains and is willing to break what they believe they stop other one.
Directement après avoir sorti le plan de l'Al Ghul de Ra et la disparition mystérieuse de Dr. Jonathan Crane l'Épouvantail d'AKA, l'Ordonnance continue son effort apparemment sans fin d'apporter à la justice pour le crime de Gotham et corrompu avec l'aide de Lt. James Gordon et nouveau Procureur de la République nommé Harvey Dent. Mais cette fois, le Chevalier Sombre fait face à un criminel psychopathe montant appelé le Joker, qui est le sourire angoissant le rend plus dangereux que ce qu'il doit encore lâcher. Cela devient un ordre du jour aux deux ennemis que seulement un d'entre eux reste et est disposé à casser chaque partie de dans ce quoi ils croient arrêter l'autre. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, USA
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