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Lee Daniels» The Butler (PG - 13 for violence, sexuality, smoking, profanity, ethnic slurs, mature themes and disturbing images) Forest Whitaker stars in the title role of this father - son saga, set against the backdrop of the African - American struggle for Civil Rights, recounting the real - life story of a butler who served in the White House under eight presidents.
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Some of his more notable work came from his collaboration with director Spike Lee; over the course of the 1990s, Washington starred in three of his films, playing a jazz trumpeter in Mo» Better Blues (1990), the title role in Lee's epic 1992 biopic Malcolm X (for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination), and the convict father of a high - school basketball star in He Got Game (1998).
His television resumé includes the part of Alex Haley's father in the 1979 miniseries Roots: The Next Generation and the title roles in the made - for - TV movies The Jessie Owens Story (1984) and Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story (1987); he has also played recurring roles on such series as Glitter, The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, and Viper.
Starring Chris Hemsworth — last seen through my eyes as Captain Kirk's dad in 2009's excellent Star Trek reboot — in the title role, Thor tells the tale of the God of Thunder's banishment to Earth by his father, Odin as he seeks to discover the true meaning of being a hero worthy of his prestigious title.
Bridges is attached to play the title role (to give you an idea of how long this has been brewing, it was once eyed for his late father Lloyd Bridges) but as the trade's source notes this «is very early, as there are a lot of moving parts to this.»
Tomb Raider (PG - 13 for violence and some profanity) Alicia Vikander assumes the title role in this reboot of the action franchise which finds the acrobatic archaeologist embarking on a perilous journey in search of her explorer father (Dominic West) who went missing on a mysterious island off the coast of Japan.
10:45 am — TCM — The Heiress Olivia de Havilland won her second Oscar for her role as the title character in this adaptation of Henry James» Washington Square, a woman forbidden from love with a young suitor because her controlling father fears the suitor is only a fortune hunter.
, Mario Van Peebles» re-creation of father Melvin's struggle to make the 1970s black - power flick Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song; Kinsey, a film biography of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, with Liam Neeson in the title role; and Primer, a twisting techno - thriller that won the top dramatic honor at last winter's Sundance Film Festival.
Among the titles I'm still yet to see, Maren Ade's Toronto and New York Film Festival - bound «Toni Erdmann» continued to make waves for writer / director Ade and Sandra Hüller, in the role of a woman tantalized by the surprise visit of her estranged father.
A free - to - play title with «additional in - game content available for purchase,» Spelunker World is the follow - up to Spelunker HD on PlayStation 3 and sees you taking the role of a Spelunker, following the footsteps of his father who disappeared 10 years ago.
As the title of the series indicates, ellipses play a central role in composition, invoking, in part, a game he played with his father, a renowned physicist.
The title of this exhibition, On Any Sunday, references the personal nature of the words that Abbott includes in his text - based paintings, and is the title of a mid-1970s documentary film on motorcycle culture that Abbott's father had a cameo role in.