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These Pretty Women... Are Clueless!
These Pretty Women... Are Clueless!
Comedy - 1997
4.7
15%
N/A
Two clueless homegirls move to L.A. to become dancers, but instead find themselves scamming a dying millionaire to eventually become B*A*P*S (Black American Princesses).
Director:
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Eddie Murphy Raw
(1987)
Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on '80s love, sex and marriage, a remembrance of Mom's hamburgers and much more.
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The Five Heartbeats
(1991)
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.
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Hollywood Shuffle
(1987)
Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, a...
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The Meteor Man
(1993)
One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he's scared of heights. He can master the information in any book ... for about thirty seconds. Now his friends and family want him to protect their community from the dreaded Golden Lords.
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Up, Up, and Away
(2000)
A boy is the only family member without superpowers in this Disney Film. The world depends on him saving his family from computerized brainwashers. Will he realize that it doesn't take superpowers to be a hero in time to help them defeat the villains?

Details

Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
90 min
Release date:
28 Mar 1997
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$7,240,837
Awards:
2 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
A very funny movie.
– Esther Iverem,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
It's good for a half-hour of humor before the fun starts to dissolve.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Paying movie-goers deserve more, especially from someone who has previously shown signs of genuine comic aptitude.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Formulaic and distastefully fake, Townsend's modern fairy tale unsuccessfuly tries to combine the premise of Pretty Woman with the formats of the fish-out-of-water and culture-collision.
– Emanuel Levy,
Variety,
26 Apr 2006
fresh:
t's a celebration of bonds that are thicker than blood and demonstrates above all that fame-and-fortune fantasies can blur divisions of race and class as persuasively as they can exaggerate them.
– Lisa Alspector,
Chicago Reader,
21 Jul 2009
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