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Hollywood Shuffle (Widescreen)
»rank: 24175
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The alumni of Hollywood Shuffle are spread across dozens of current comedies and TV sitcoms--this is the movie that introduced Robert Townsend and the Wayans Brothers to the world. Townsend plays a young actor who struggles with being offered stereotyped street hustler roles while trying to maintain his self-respect and the approval of his family. Between scenes of comically humiliating auditions, Bobby has satirical fantasies about the plight of black actors, including the classic 'Black Acting School' sketch, in which white teachers demonstrate jive talk and street moves for ...
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Things are Tough all Over (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 5287
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The alumni of Hollywood Shuffle are spread across dozens of current comedies and TV sitcoms--this is the movie that introduced Robert Townsend and the Wayans Brothers to the world. Townsend plays a young actor who struggles with being offered stereotyped street hustler roles while trying to maintain his self-respect and the approval of his family. Between scenes of comically humiliating auditions, Bobby has satirical fantasies about the plight of black actors, including the classic 'Black Acting School' sketch, in which white teachers demonstrate jive talk and street moves for ...
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Echo Park (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 44813
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'l love that everyone is really an actress, is really a singer,' confesses the ever hopeful Susan Dey, a bartender turned singing strip-o-gram still waiting for her big break. So, apparently, does director Robert Dornhelm, an Austrian who brings a fresh eye and an easygoing sympathy to a familiar story. Dey's new roommate, pizza delivery guy/budding songwriter Tom Hulce, is hopelessly in love with her while she falls madly into bed with her delightfully deluded duplex neighbor Michael Bowen, an Austrian bodybuilder ('body sculptor,' he's quick to correct) waiting ...
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