Movies starring Forest Whitaker

Bloodsport (1988)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Donald Gibb | Leah Ayres | Norman Burton | Forest Whitaker | Roy Chiao | Philip Chan | Pierre Rafini | Bolo Yeung | Ken Siu | Kimo Lai Kwok Ki | Bernard Mariano | Bill Yuen Ping Kuen | Lily Leung | Joshua Schroder
Directors: Newt Arnold
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As a child, a miscreant Frank Dux was taken in and trained by a champion martial artist, who went so far as to adopt Frank into his family after the premature death of his own son. Now, decades later, Frank is a skilled martial artist himself and a solider in the U.S. Military. Upon the death of his surrogate father and sensai, Frank is informed of a mysterious, no-holds barred, highly illegal martial arts tournament in Hong Kong known only as the “kumeti.” At the bidding of his sensai and against direct orders from his military superiors Frank travels to Hong Kong to participate and uphold his master’s honor. In order to succeed not only will he have to win the tournament; he must also evade capture by two military police sent to arrest him and the prying questions of a nosy reporter eager for a story.

The Last King of Scotland (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Forest Whitaker | James McAvoy | Kerry Washington | Gillian Anderson | Simon McBurney | David Oyelowo | Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga | Adam Kotz | Barbara Rafferty | David Ashton | Giles Foden | Andy Williams | Martina Amati | Peter Salmon | Michael Wawuyo
Directors: Kevin Macdonald
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In the early 1970s, Nicholas Garrigan, a young semi-idealistic Scottish doctor, comes to Uganda to assist in a rural hospital. Once there, he soon meets up with the new President, Idi Amin, who promises a golden age for the African nation. Garrigan hits it off immediately with the rabid Scotland fan, who soon offers him a senior position in the national health department and becomes one of Amin’s closest advisers. However as the years pass, Garrigan cannot help but notice Amin’s increasingly erratic behavior that grows beyond a legitimate fear of assassination into a murderous insanity that is driving Uganda into bloody ruin. Realizing his dire situation with the lunatic leader unwilling to let him go home, Garrigan must make some crucial decisions that could mean his death if the despot finds out.

Johnny Handsome (1989)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Mickey Rourke | Ellen Barkin | Elizabeth McGovern | Morgan Freeman | Forest Whitaker | Lance Henriksen | Scott Wilson | David Schramm | Yvonne Bryceland | Peter Jason | J.W. Smith | Jeffrey Meek | Allan Graf | Ed Zang | John P. Fertitta
Directors: Walter Hill
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A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his father-figure and sent him to prison.

Blown Away (1994)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeff Bridges | Tommy Lee Jones | Suzy Amis | Lloyd Bridges | Forest Whitaker | Stephi Lineburg | John Finn | Caitlin Clarke | Christofer de Oni | Loyd Catlett | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Lucinda Weist | Brendan Burns | Patricia A. Heine | Josh McLaglen
Directors: Stephen Hopkins
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There’s a serial bomber loose in Boston, and he has killed Blanket, a member of Boston’s bomb squad and the best friend of explosives expert Jimmy Dove. Dove has just retired from the bomb squad to marry a violinist named Kate, who has an 11-year-old daughter named Elizabeth. Haunted by grisly flashbacks, Dove soon figures out the identity of the bomber — Irish explosives expert Ryan Gaerity, a man who is so radical in his views that even the IRA wants nothing to do with him. Gaerity has escaped from the maximum security Castle Gleigh prison in Ireland, using a bomb made from ingredients that include blood, wool, and a porcelain toilet. Gaerity has fled to Boston, where he saw Dove, who had just disarmed a bomb planted in the Harvard computer lab, painted as a reluctant hero on TV. Gaerity was furious: it’s because of Dove that he’s spent years in prison. Dove was born Liam McGivney, and he used to be a naive Irish patriot. Gaerity recruited him and taught him to build bombs, and Gaerity conceived a terrorist plan that went terribly wrong. Liam helped Gaerity build a bomb, then he realized that Gaerity intended to detonate it on a crowded street. Liam tried to stop Gaerity from detonating the bomb, but bomb device went off, killing a lot of people, including Gaerity’s sister. Liam escaped from Ireland and made his way to America, where he changed his name to Jimmy Dove. Gaerity was arrested, tried, and imprisoned until his escape. Gaerity, who has now taken up residence in an abandoned gambling ship called the Dolphin, has decided to get revenge on Dove, and Gaerity started terrorizing the bomb squad by killing Blanket. Now, Dove is the only one who can stop Gaerity.

Phenomenon (1996)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Kyra Sedgwick | Forest Whitaker | Robert Duvall | Jeffrey DeMunn | Richard Kiley | Brent Spiner | Vyto Ruginis | Bruce A. Young | Michael Milhoan | Sean O'Bryan | David Gallagher | Ashley Buccille | Tony Genaro | Troy Evans
Directors: Jon Turteltaub
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The main character (John Travolta) observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intell-i-gent and puts the intell-i-gence to good use in his community. When word gets around he becomes known as a freak and everyone wants to figure out why this happened to a car mechanic. The government also wants to get their hands on it to put it to other uses.

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Barry Pepper | Forest Whitaker | Kim Coates | Sabine Karsenti | Michael Byrne | Christian Tessier | Sylvain Landry | Richard Tyson | Christopher Freeman | John Topor | Shaun Austin-Olsen | Tim Post | Earl Pastko | Michel Perron
Directors: Roger Christian
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In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlo’s, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the seductive and powerful Terl (Travolta), the Psychlo’s are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has descended into a near primitive state, believing the invaders to be demons and technology to be evil. After humanity has all but given up any hope of freeing themselves from alien oppression, a young man named Tyler (Pepper) decides to leave his desolate home high in the Rocky Mountains to discover the truth, whereupon he is captured and enslaved. It is then that he decides to fight back, leading his fellow man in one final struggle for freedom.

The Fourth Angel (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Jeremy Irons | Forest Whitaker | Jason Priestley | Briony Glassco | Charlotte Rampling | Lois Maxwell | Timothy West | Joel Pitts | Anna Maguire | Holly Boyd | Kal Weber | Ian McNeice | William Armstrong | Garrick Hagon | Serge Soric
Directors: John Irvin
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Jack Elgin is the European editor of The Economist, which is based in London, England. Jack has a wife named Maria and three kids named Joanne, Julia, and Andrew. Jack subtly changes the family vacation from a lazy week of Mediterranean fun and sun in Corfu, Greece, to a tour of India, because of a story he has to cover. Maria is not as impressed by this as the kids are. Jack himself envisioned a chance to simultaneously work an easy reporting assignment and spend a little quality time with his family. But on the way to India, the airplane, a 747 owned by AM Air, an American airline, makes an unscheduled stopover in Limassol Cyprus, because of a mechanical problem. After a while of waiting inside the Limassol airport, everyone gets back on the plane — which is then hijacked by a group of terrorists known as the August 15th Movement, led by a Serbian man named Ivanic Loyvek and his right-hand man Karadan Maldic. And they are demanding $50,000,000 from the US State Department in one hour, or everyone on the airplane will die. The demand is met, and Loyvek and Maldic start releasing the women and children, with the men to go last. But as soon as a front passenger door is opened, a local police team gunning for the terrorists opens fire. The flight attendants frantically open the rest of the airplane’s doors and start getting passengers out, but the terrorists start killing passengers, leading to an explosion. Maria, Joanne, and Julia get out of the airplane, and then Jack, holding Andrew, gets out — only to watch Maria, Joanne, and Julia get shot by the terrorists. Jack tries to hide Andrew’s face so he can’t see it. Maria and Joanne are dead, and Julia is still alive — but Julia burns to death while crying for help. Jack and Andrew survive. In all, a total of 15 passengers die, and Loyvek and Maldic, the surviving terrorists, escape, knowing that they now have the $50,000,000. The hijacking would never have ended this way if the police team had waited until after the passengers were released from the airplane before getting trigger happy. Back in London, an absolutely devastated Jack is told that the terrorists were captured, but they were released and deported secretly, with no charges and no arrest, the result of some awfully compromised politics. Jack is understandably enraged that Loyvek and Maldic got off scot-free. While helping Andrew cope, Jack tries all the legal ways to ensure justice for his family, but to no avail. Jack even pays a visit to Henry Davidson, a CIA agent who works at the American Embassy in London. Davidson tells Jack that there’s little that can be done. Obviously, the American and British governments are completely impotent when it comes to going after Loyvek and Maldic, so Jack has absolutely no choice in the matter. He must do it himself. With the help of his ex-intelligence operative friend Kate Stockton, who is well-schooled in the finer points of international intelligence, Jack becomes a one-man anti-terrorist squadron, searching for Loyvek and Maldich. Dogging Jack’s trail is FBI agent Jules Bernard, who’s cooperating with Scotland Yard on anti-terrorist activities, and who suspects that Jack is the man who has been killing anyone involved in the hijacking. But as it turns out, Jules is on Jack’s side, and he’s willing to help Jack make those responsible pay for the deaths of his family and the other people who died in Cyprus.

Panic Room (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jodie Foster | Kristen Stewart | Forest Whitaker | Dwight Yoakam | Jared Leto | Patrick Bauchau | Ann Magnuson | Ian Buchanan | Andrew Kevin Walker | Paul Schulze | Mel Rodriguez | Richard Conant | Paul Simon | Victor Thrash | Ken Turner
Directors: David Fincher
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After her divorce, Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah move into an old-fashioned house with one very modern addition: a “panic room” which is virtually impossible to break into, designed for refuge during a home invasion. In their first night in the house a trio of thieves do break in and Meg and Sarah rush into the panic room. However, the intruders are looking for something inside the panic room, and given the recent move the room’s hotline to the police hasn’t been hooked up yet. Worse, Sarah is diabetic and the room doesn’t contain any sugar…

Phone Booth (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Colin Farrell | Kiefer Sutherland | Forest Whitaker | Radha Mitchell | Katie Holmes | Paula Jai Parker | Arian Waring Ash | Tia Texada | John Enos III | Richard T. Jones | Keith Nobbs | Dell Yount | James MacDonald | Josh Pais | Yorgo Constantine
Directors: Joel Schumacher
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A slick New York publicist (Farrell) who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he’ll be killed… and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn’t kidding.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Forest Whitaker | John Tormey | Cliff Gorman | Dennis Liu | Frank Minucci | Richard Portnow | Tricia Vessey | Henry Silva | Gene Ruffini | Frank Adonis | Victor Argo | Damon Whitaker | Kenny Guay | Vince Viverito | Gano Grills
Directors: Jim Jarmusch
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In Jersey City, an African American hit man follows “Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai.” He lives alone, in simplicity with homing pigeons for company, calling himself Ghost Dog. His master, who saved his life eight years ago, is part of the local mob. When the boss’ daughter witnesses one of Ghost Dog’s hits, he becomes expendable. The first victims are his birds, and in response, Ghost Dog goes right at his attackers but does not want to harm his master or the young woman. On occasion, he talks with his best friend, a French-speaking Haitian who sells ice cream in the park, and with a child with whom he discusses books. Can he stay true to his code? And if he does, what is his fate?