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Phels High


Release Date:  6/17/23 – American Black Film Festival; 6/20/23 – VOD
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Running Time:  85 mins.
Director:  Kevin J. Nelson
Studio(s):  1804 Films, Prowrite Productions

Cast:  Omari Hardwick (Principal Floyd), Elise Neal (Tina Lloyd), Michael Hyatt (Captain Bailey), T.J. Atoms (Beef), Allen Maldonado (Meat), Marc John Jefferies (Melvin).

Story:  The film is about a bond between four friends which gets destroyed when one of the boys, who gets bullied, takes matters into his own hands by taking the life of the kid that bullied him. The school’s peace is shattered by gunfire and the boys end up barricaded, trying to devise a plan. Beef (the shooter) figures he may have a chance of having a future if he takes the life of his best friend to come out on top of his messed-up situation. He plots to look like a hero instead of the villain that he is, but his plan falls short and an innocent life is taken due to his choices.  Source:  Variety.com.

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American Skin

Release Date:  1/15/21; Streaming (Original Release – 2019)

Genre:  Drama

Rating:  R

Director:  Nate Parker

Studio(s):  Tiny Giant Entertainment, Sterling Light Productions, Eagle Pictures,
Vertical Entertainment

Running Time:  89 mins.

Cast:  Nate Parker, Omari Hardwick, Theo Rossi, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Beau Knapp,
Shane Paul McGhie, Milauna Jackson, Larry Sullivan

Story:  After witnessing his son murdered by a white police officer who goes uncharged, Marine veteran, Lincoln ‘Linc’ Jefferson, takes justice into his own hands in a series of events he hopes will finally lead to justice for his son.  Source(s):  Amazon Prime; IMDB.  Photo Source(s):  boxofficebuz.com; IMDB.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m3WzzEPdps&rel=0

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A Boy.  A Girl. A Dream.

Release Date:  (2018)
Genre:  Romance
Rating:  NR
Director:  Qasim Basir
Studio(s):   Datari Turner Productions, Samuel Goldwyn Films
Running time:  89 mins.
Cast: Omari Hardwick (Cass), Meagan Good (Free), Jay Ellis, Dijon Talton (Naqeeb)

Story:  On the night of the 2016 Presidential election, Cass, an L.A. club promoter, meets Frida, a beautiful and spirited Midwestern visitor dealing with a difficult breakup. She challenges him to revisit his broken dreams – while he pushes her to discover hers. Nothing will ever be the same again.  Source:  ABFF official site.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjm_KpIYH_g&rel=0

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Nobody’s Fool

a/k/a The List

Release Date:  11/2/18 (In Theaters)
Genre:  Comedy
Rating:  Unknown
Director:  Tyler Perry
Studio(s):   Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures, Tyler Perry Studios
Running time:  Unknown

Cast:  Tiffany Haddish, Tika Sumpter, Omari Hardwick, Taraji P. Henson, Courtney Henggeler, Whoopi Goldberg, Amber Riley.

Story:   The film follows a woman who is recently released after serving her time in prison. Once on the outside, she reconnects with her sister, who is in the midst of discovering that her online relationship might be a man “catfishing” her.  Source:  Variety.

Trailer:

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Sorry To Bother You

Release Date:  2018
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Director:  Boots Riley
Studio(s):  Significant Productions
Running time:  105 mins.

Cast:   Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Steven Yeun, Jermaine Fowler, Armie Hammer, Omari Hardwick.

Story:   Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield), a 30-something black telemarketer with self-esteem issues, discovers a magical selling power living inside of him.  Suddenly he’s rising up the ranks to the elite team of his company, which sells heinous products and services. The upswing in Cassius’s career raises serious red flags with his brilliant girlfriend, Detroit (Tessa Thompson), a sign-twirling gallery artist who is secretly a part of a Banksy-style collective called Left Eye.  But the unimaginable hits the fan when Cassius meets the company’s cocaine-snorting, orgy-hosting, obnoxious, and relentlessly optimistic CEO, Steve Lift (Armie Hammer).  Source:  Sundance.org.  Photo Source:  IMDB.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaBGcorkzpk&rel=0

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A Christmas Blessing

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Release Date:  2013
Genre:  Drama/Romance
Rating:  NR
Running Time:  90 mins.
Studio:  Uptoparr Productions; TV One
Director:  Russ Parr

Cast:  Lisa Arrindell Anderson (Pamela), Omari Hardwick (Earl James), David Banner (Charles), Jahnee Wallace (Kara).

Story:  This moving family drama chronicles the parallel hardships of Pamela Cleveland (Lisa Arrindell Anderson), a mother of four whose husband, Charles (David Banner), has been killed in action while serving in Afghanistan, and Earl James (Omari Hardwick), a fresh divorcee. While Pamela combats immeasurable grief and a flood of concerns as a new widow, Earl combats anxiety and struggles to maintain custody of and contact with his two sons. Pamela and Earl’s lives are forever transformed when their seemingly separate paths intersect and together, they learn the realities of dating and single-parenthood, the importance of family and the true meaning of Christmas. Source(s): Shadow and Act; Moviefone.  Photo Source:  TV One.

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