Posts Tagged ‘hoodlum’

King of New York (1990)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Walken, Christopher | Caruso, David | Fishburne, Laurence | Argo, Victor | Snipes, Wesley | Julian, Janet | Chin, Joey | Esposito, Giancarlo | Calderon, Paul | Buscemi, Steve | Randle, Theresa | Thomas, Leonard L. | Smith, Roger Guenveur | Nygren, Carrie | Abuba, Ernest
Directors: Ferrara, Abel
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Drug lord Frank White (Chrstiopher Walken) is released from Sing-Sing prison after serving a number of years for drug trafficking. He is reunited with his former gang, led by the murderous Jimmy Jump (Laurence Fishburne), as well as his personal female bodyguards Raye (Theresa Randle) and Melanie (Carrie Ngyen), and his lover/legal annalist Jennifer (Janet Julien). After seeing his old neighborhood more dilapidated and depressing than ever, Frank decides to do good by eliminating his competitors whom filled the void left by his incarceration, then steal their money and drugs to finance a new South Bronx hospital for the needy. But Frank’s past won’t let go of him when a group of overzealous cops, led by corrupt detective Roy Bishop (Victor Argo), frustrated at the lack of clues to nail Frank on for the current street killings, decide to take matters into their own hands.

Trading Places (1983)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott, Denholm | Aykroyd, Dan | Woods, Maurice | Fisher Jr., Richard D. | Gallagher, Jim | DiSabatino, Anthony | Behrend, Bonnie | Merrill, Sunnie | Newell, James | St. John, Mary | Tremena, Bonnie | Schwartz, David | Bellamy, Ralph | Ameche, Don | Degidon, Tom
Directors: Landis, John
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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe’s employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.