Training Day (Motion picture.) Pelican brief (Motion picture.) Fallen (Motion picture.) Book of Eli (Motion picture.) Malcolm X (Motion picture : 1992.)
Notes:
Training day (2001) (122 min.) / directed by Antoine Fuqua ; written by David Ayer -- The pelican brief (1993) (141 min.) / screenplay by Alan J. Pakula ; directed by Alan J. Pakula -- The Book of Eli (2010) (118 min.) / directed by the Hughes Brothers ; written by Gary Whitta -- Malcolm X (1992) (201 min.) / screenplay by Arnold Perl and Spike Lee ; directed by Spike Lee -- Fallen (1998) (125 min) / written by Nicholas Kazan ; directed by Gregory Hoblit.
Contents:
Training day: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn. The pelican brief: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn, James B. Sikking, William Atherton, Robert Culp, Stanley Tucci ; special appearance by Hume Cronyn and John Lithgow. The Book of Eli Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Frances De La Tour, Evan Jones, Joe Pingue, Tom Waits, Michael Gambon. Malcolm X: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee. Fallen: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Gandolfini, Elias Koteas.
Summary:
Training day: For a rookie cop staying on the right side of the line that separates cop from criminal will be the most challenging thing he has ever done, because his senior partner is an undercover narc, meaner than any of L.A's mean streets. — The pelican brief: Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everyone else wants her dead. — The Book of Eli: Eli walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west along the Highway of Death on a mission he doesn't fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or in the wrong hands, the hammer of a despot. Eli keeps his blade sharp and his survival instincts sharper as his quest thrusts him into a savage wasteland. — Malcolm X: Born Malcolm Little, his minister father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. After getting out of jail, he preaches the teachings, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca. There he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim. He changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz and stops his anti-white teachings, having discovered the error of his mistakes. He is later assassinated and dies a Muslim martyr. — Fallen: Detective John Hobbes is searching for a criminal he's already met, already caught and already killed.
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