Which film featured an actor from Mississippi and another American actor who is also a director?
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Aiden Flowers Aiden James Flowers (born December 13, 2004) is a professional American actor from Mississippi. He is best known for his recurring role of Young Klaus Mikaelson in the CW network series "The Originals". He also appeared in the films "The Big Short", "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children", and Nate Parker's "The Birth of a Nation".
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Nate Parker Nate Parker (born November 18, 1979) is an American actor, director, producer, writer, and musical performer who has appeared in "Beyond the Lights", "Red Tails", "The Secret Life of Bees", "The Great Debaters", "Arbitrage", "Non-Stop", "Felon", and "Pride". Parker's directorial debut feature film, "The Birth of a Nation", in which he also starred, made history at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival when Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the distribution rights for $17.5 million, breaking the record for the most paid for a Sundance Film Festival production, surpassing "Little Miss Sunshine", which had been acquired by Searchlight for $10 million ten years earlier.
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A Serious Man A Serious Man is a 2009 black comedy-drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesota Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading him to questions about his faith.
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A Time to Kill (1996 film) A Time to Kill is a 1996 American crime drama film based on John Grisham's 1989 novel of the same name, directed by Joel Schumacher. Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, and Kevin Spacey star, with Oliver Platt, Ashley Judd, Kiefer and Donald Sutherland, and Patrick McGoohan appearing in supporting roles. Set in Canton, Mississippi, the film involves the rape of a young girl, the arrest of the rapists, their subsequent murder by the girl's father, and the father's trial for murder. The film was a critical and commercial success, making $152 million at the worldwide box office.
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The Louisiana Hussy Louisiana Hussy is a 1959 American film directed by Lee Sholem.
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Cooley High Cooley High, directed by Michael Schultz, is a comedic drama that follows the narrative of high school seniors and best-friends, Leroy “Preach” Jackson (Glynn Turman) and Richard “Cochise” Morris (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs). Written by Eric Monte, and produced by American International Pictures (AIP), the film, primarily shot in Chicago, Illinois, was a major hit at the box offices, grossing in at $13,000,000 (USD). The light-hearted and entertaining storyline captivated viewers with its portrayal of carefree best-friends, and its exciting soundtrack featuring the smash hit "Baby Love" by The Supremes, among many other Motown hits.
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Soul Man (film) Soul Man is a 1986 American comedy film about a white man who temporarily darkens his skin, in order to pretend to be black and qualify for a black-only scholarship at Harvard Law School. The movie was directed by Steve Miner and stars C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, Leslie Nielsen, James B. Sikking, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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Tico Wells Tico Wells is an African-American actor, known for his role as Choir Boy in the 1991 film "The Five Heartbeats". He has also appeared on "The Cosby Show", "227", Hallmark movies and "Beverly Hills, 90210". He was Tim in the movie "The Wish List", and played Dexter Williams, the younger brother of Denzel Washington's character Demetrius Williams, in "Mississippi Masala". He starred as Kirkland J. Ellis, III, in the independent film "Big Ain't Bad", a romantic drama that won Auds honors at the Hollywood Black Film Festival. He made a cameo in the Martin Lawrence show, "Martin" as "Sweet Reggie."
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James Carter and the Prisoners James Carter (December 18, 1925 – November 26, 2003) was an American singer. He was born a Mississippi sharecropper and as a young man was several times an inmate of the Mississippi prison system. He was paid $20,000, and credited, for a four-decade-old lead-vocalist performance in a prison work song used in the 2000 film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
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Corey Jantzen Corey Jantzen is an American film actor and writer. He is known for his work in the academy award nominated film "Foxcatcher", where he played a wrestler on Team Foxcatcher and helped choreograph the critically acclaimed wrestling sequences. Jantzen also landed roles in projects like "Dixieland", "The Normal Heart" and worked on the set of the academy award-winning film "American Hustle". Jantzen started his acting tenure with a conservatory at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. During his time at Stella Alder he performed in the productions of "Den of Thieves" and "The History Boys". Theatre critic Bill Garry applauded his work as Sal [Den of Thieves], stating "Among the mob boys, Corey Michael Jantzen makes Sal, the trigger-happy ‘goomba’ come alive." Jantzen is a partner of the production company, TC Entertainment, along with his brother Jesse Jantzen.
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Everything Must Go (film) Everything Must Go is a 2010 American comedy-drama film directed by Dan Rush and starring Will Ferrell. The film was based on Raymond Carver's short story "Why Don't You Dance?" and was released in theaters on May 13, 2011.
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Justin Baldoni Justin Louis Baldoni (born January 24, 1984) is an American actor, director and filmmaker.
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Life on the Mississippi (film) Life on the Mississippi is a made-for-television feature film, based loosely on the 1883 book of the same title by Mark Twain. It was directed by Peter H. Hunt, and starred David Knell as the young Mark Twain and Robert Lansing as his teacher, Horace Bixby. A pre-"All My Children" Marcy Walker played a character named Emmeline. It aired in 1980 as part of the PBS series, "Great Performances", and was released for home video in 1984 by MCA Entertainment.
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Matthew McConaughey Matthew David McConaughey ( ; born November 4, 1969) is an American actor, director, producer, and writer. He first gained notice for his breakout role in the coming-of-age comedy "Dazed and Confused" (1993). He appeared in such films as the slasher "" (1994), the legal thriller "A Time to Kill" (1996), the comedy film "Larger than Life" (1996), Steven Spielberg's historical drama "Amistad" (1997), the science fiction drama "Contact" (1997), the comedy "EDtv" (1999), and the war film "U-571" (2000).
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Arliss Howard Arliss Howard (born Leslie Richard Howard; October 18, 1954) is an American actor, writer and film director.
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Damian Chapa Damian Robert Chapa (born October 29, 1963) is an American actor, film director and producer.
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The Walking Dead (1995 film) The Walking Dead is a 1995 war film written and directed by Preston A. Whitmore II starring Allen Payne, Joe Morton and Eddie Griffin. The film depicts the lives of five Marines who are all assigned to rescue a group of POW during the Vietnam War in 1972. It opened to poor reviews and low box office receipts. Previews billed it as "the black experience in Vietnam".
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a 1988 American action comedy parody film of blaxploitation films written, directed by, and starring Keenen Ivory Wayans in his feature film directorial debut. Featured in the film are several noteworthy African-American actors who were part of the genre of blaxploitation: Jim Brown, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, and Isaac Hayes. Other actors in the film are Kadeem Hardison, Ja'net Dubois, John Witherspoon, Damon Wayans, Clarence Williams III, and Chris Rock.
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Mississippi Grind Mississippi Grind is a 2015 American drama film directed and written by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. It stars Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendelsohn, Sienna Miller, Analeigh Tipton, Robin Weigert, and Alfre Woodard. The film was released by A24 on September 25, 2015.
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Finding Forrester Finding Forrester is a 2000 American drama film written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus Van Sant. In the film, an African-American teenager, Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), is invited to attend a prestigious private high school. By chance, Jamal befriends a reclusive writer, William Forrester (Sean Connery), through whom he refines his talent for writing and comes to terms with his identity. Anna Paquin, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Pitt, Glenn Fitzgerald, April Grace and Busta Rhymes star in supporting roles.
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Mississippi Hare Mississippi Hare is a 1949 Looney Tunes cartoon short directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese.
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Gerald (film) Gerald is a 2010 American comedy-drama film written, produced and edited by Tim Gallagher, directed by Marc Clebanoff (director of "Break"), and stars Louis Mandylor and Mackenzie Firgens with Deborah Theaker and Mickey Rooney. The main character, Gerald, was inspired by "Forrest Gump", Seymour Krelborn of "Little Shop of Horrors" and Mr. Gallagher's personal experience with mentally challenged individuals.