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Everybody Hates Chris - Season Two
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Terry Crews, Tichina Arnold, Vincent Martella, Tequan Richmond, Imani Hakim
Directors: Gina Prince-Bythewood, Dennie Gordon, Chris Rock, Eric Laneuville, Ali LeRoi
Country: USA
Year: 2006
If you liked Everybody Hates Chris' first season, you're going to love season 2. Much like Chris (NAACP Image Award-winner Tyler James Williams, really growing into the role), now an eighth grader at all-white Corleone Junior High, this semi-autobiographical series based on Chris Rock's childhood, has matured. "This doesn't feel like last year all over again," Chris's best (and only) friend, fellow geek Greg (Vincent Martella) tells him at one point. Well, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Tired of being "picked on, made fun of, and left out," Chris runs for class president and actually wins. But, after making campaign prom...
Everybody Hates Chris - Season Three
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Terry Crews, Tichina Arnold, Vincent Martella, Tequan Richmond, Imani Hakim
Directors: Gina Prince-Bythewood, Dennie Gordon, Chris Rock, Eric Laneuville, Ali LeRoi
Country: USA
Year: 2007
Inspired by his childhood experiences, comedian Chris Rock narrates the hilarious, touching story of a teenager growing up as the eldest of children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused into a predominantly white middle school two hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high. This responsible, resilient adolescent brings a distinct, funny spin to his everyday trials and traumas in this single-camera comedy.
Everybody Hates Chris - Season Four
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Terry Crews, Tichina Arnold, Vincent Martella, Tequan Richmond, Imani Hakim
Directors: Gina Prince-Bythewood, Dennie Gordon, Chris Rock, Eric Laneuville, Ali LeRoi
Country: USA
Year: 2008
Inspired by his childhood experiences, comedian Chris Rock narrates the hilarious, touching story of a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused into a predominantly white middle school two hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high. This responsible, resilient adolescent brings a distinct, funny spin to his everyday trials and traumas in this single-camera comedy.
What a Girl Wants
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Anna Chancellor, Eileen Atkins, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver James, Amanda Bynes
Directors: Dennie Gordon
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Daphne, a seventeen-year-old girl from New York goes to England in search of her father, who does not know he had a child with an American girlfriend he met while working in Morocco, and whose aristocratic family did not approve of the woman.
Joe Dirt
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Adam Beach, Christopher Walken, Kid Rock, John Farley, Caroline Aaron, Brittany Daniel, Fred Ward
Directors: Dennie Gordon
Country: USA
Year: 2001
Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks. As his wandering, misguided search takes him from one hilarious misadventure to another, Joe finds his way to Los Angeles, where a shock-jock brings Joe on his radio show to insult him. But as Joe's life story unfolds, jeers turn to cheers, and an entire captivated city tunes in to hear the adventures of Joe Dirt.
Everybody Hates Chris - Season One
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Terry Crews, Tichina Arnold, Vincent Martella, Tequan Richmond, Imani Hakim
Directors: Gina Prince-Bythewood, Dennie Gordon, Chris Rock, Eric Laneuville, Ali LeRoi
Country: USA
Year: 2005
Beginning with its assured pilot episode, it's love at first sight for Everybody Hates Chris. This loosely autobiographical family sitcom has a distinctive voice (belonging to co-creator Chris Rock, who also serves as narrator) and a strong sense of time (1982-83) and place (Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood). For Chris (the winning Tyler James Williams), turning 13 is anything but a wonder year. He is the only black kid in an all-white junior high school (to which he is bused) that offers him "not a Harvard-type education, just not a sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education." At school, he is befriended by the geeky Greg (Vincent Martella), ...