Non Black, major movie from 2005

[Andre98]

I hate that it's necessary to say its a non Black movie, so this the last time I'll say it. But I do want to say it's a Black construction worker saying this line (words are close but from memory, so not exact):


"Jesus must LOVE you! That's the craziest mess I ever seen!"
(Then, looking at the young woman he's helping....) says:
"I KNOW Jesus loves YOU!"

[Andre98]

*crickets*

Do I hold the record for threads that die of loneliness in this mug?
The answer by 5pm Friday 11/10/06.

[zuriyahe]

Don't let this thread die Andre!

Let's keep it alive!

It was a good moive! Especially since young "Obi Wan Kenobie" starred in it.

[texasheat]

I never heard of that movie.

[Andre98]

Don't let this thread die Andre!

Let's keep it alive!

It was a good moive! Especially since young "Obi Wan Kenobie" starred in it.
Cool!
Yeah, and the lead actress was a woman that grew up damn fast onscreen.
Seems like only yesterday she was 14, and in that movie with the former Sundance Kid, (actually he might even be considered the current "Sundance" kid....) . Then she was the muse of a middle aged man on the other side of the world in another movie that did a much better job of portraying that May/December sexual tension without the tawdry underage dabbling of say, a film like "American Beauty".

Since I'm going clue happy, here's a juicy one, but you have to be a real movie nut: The aforementioned construction dude was the same dude that was among those trying to capture "Sarah Connor" as she was trying to break out of a criminal prison psych ward in a great action movie back in the early 90s. He was far less chunky then, but then weren't most of us, some 15 years ago...

Another clue:
The White guy trying to help them escape in the original movie in question was a former Sopranos "pisan", and just like in the HBO series, he met his end at the end of a gun in this mug. One of my favorite actors, even in the worst flicks, he always gives an entertaining performance.

I like this!

Wait, one more:
This is a good one because it's multi layered:
One of the subjects that was caught up in the same initial dilemma as the two stars, was once a member of the TV show that starred the Black actor that is known in YET ANOTHER movie (in 1989) as screaming that he was the "Head Nigger In Charge". Though the "HNIC" phrase has been around long before, this 1989 movie is thought to be where it got it's most popular exposure.

I like that clue.

Glad you got it Zuri. Thanks for playing along too.

I'll wait a couple more days... 'til Monday, 11/13/06 5pm.

[Juicey1]

Andre, babe.......you just confused the hell outta me......LOL

If I didn't know before, I really don't know now.......

The only thing I see familiar is Sarah Connor which was a character in the Terminator movies (I think....I am so confused) and the HNIC screaming was Morgan Freeman in Lean on Me.

Ok, I still don't know what the first movie is. I am no good at this game......LOL
and I love trivia.

[Andre98]

Andre, babe.......you just confused the hell outta me......LOL

If I didn't know before, I really don't know now.......

The only thing I see familiar is Sarah Connor which was a character in the Terminator movies (I think....I am so confused) and the HNIC screaming was Morgan Freeman in Lean on Me.

Ok, I still don't know what the first movie is. I am no good at this game......LOL
and I love trivia.
Right, the Sarah Connor name got you to Terminator, and specifically Terminator 2 because that was in the early 90s, the first was in the mid 80s. Now, what I said was the Black construction worker role in the main movie of this thread, was the same actor as the one that was trying to capture her as she tried to escape the psych ward in that Terminator 2 movie. I guess you have to have a thing for watching for the career character actors.

And Morgan Freeman was the main actor in Lean On Me, but not the one I was talking about. Maybe he did say it at one time, so sorry for not being more specific. The actor I am talking about screamed it at Freeman's Joe Clark character to remind him that as the superintendant, HE was really was the HNIC. Now, what TV series did THAT actor have, and what other actor was in the main cast of that TV show AND in the movie in question. That builds a bridge to the answer.

[aintnojoke]

Joe Morton played the Brotha in T2

Robert Guilluame was the acutal HNIC in lean on me.....

I got the first clue....Never saw that movie though, but I got who she is....



*Going into Nancy Drew mode*


I GOT IT!! well with some help from researching. I'll say the actor's name but not the movie, I'll let someone else guess....Mark Christopher Lawrence played the Construction Worker.

[Andre98]

I guess it's pretty much been solved twice now.
Yeah, I been waiting for that actor to break out like Wendell Pierce has into more prominent roles. its strange isnt it, that you can be in the acting game for years, and thanks to the union, a two line role like that is not just given to anybody - the casting agent has to spend time probably auditioning people for it. It wasn't ten seconds in length!

Okay so you found it so you know it wasn' t Joe Morton in T2. I mean, he was in there, but not one of the psych ward orderlies tussling with the female lead.

Robert Guilaime is right, and his TV show was "Benson", and through imdb.com you would have to follow each of the three other male co-stars lineage, ( one played the Govenor, one played the persnickety one, and one was a speech writer?) because only one has the same 2005 movie under his name as Mark Christopher Lawrence.

So you got the female lead? I thought maybe I put that one too far out there - I didnt want to just name her movie she was in as a 14 year old, because then imdb.com would make it academic. I thought I was being clever calling the salad dressing guy "Sundance Kid" and saying he still is, because he named his film festival after that nickname. I'm so glad I got my wife into what I been doing for years - seeing a actor/actress while watching something together, and pointing out that they were in an earlier role, the more minor and obscure, the better, and crossing mediums like a TV commercial or even a cartoon voiceover. The lightbulb came on in my head when I saw that female lead in the movie made in the Far East, that she was the young girl in (what the hell) "The Horse Whisperer", ( what a difference ten years makes!) and her co-star was Paul Newman. The movie "on the other side of the world", aka the Far East, the story about the middle aged man (Bill Murray) and she was the young woman, that was "Lost In Translation" filmed in Japan.

So:
imdb.com will tell you that woman is Scarlett Johanson,
as AintNo said, the construction guy was Mark Christopher Lawrence,
as Zuri said, the male lead also played Obi Wan Kenobi in the newer Star Wars movies... I'll even throw in that the actor that was in Benson was .. shit, its should be easy now!

Big John Coffey was in it briefly,
the ex-soprano guy that was trying to help them was Steve Buscemi,
The man that chased Nicholas Cage around Philly in another movie was in this one.
The African actor from "Amistad", but NOT the one from "LOST", was in it.
And check this out: ( this is what I like!):
The same goatee wearing tough guy that was a cop backing up Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys 2, was a henchman in this one, hunting down the two stars. He had a one liner, in the elevator, he said to his fellow mercenary, "Tough day". We were supposed to get the subtle irony, as co-workers would say in idle chatter on an office elevator, only they are holding machine guns. Just like it was subtle that, as the Black construction worker said to Scarlett Johnason's character, " I KNOW Jesus loves YOU!" he was saying that because he was checking out how fine she was. I bet they cast that as a Black dude on purpose - who else, in the midst of things crashing down all around, will take the time to make a sexual crack like that? It went by quick, but I think he was checking out her ass, specifically

How about it? We got two!
Can one more person join the club?
2005 movie...

[aintnojoke]

Dre...The Salad dressing guy played Butch....the other one played the Sundance Kid

[Andre98]

Dre...The Salad dressing guy played Butch....the other one played the Sundance Kid
That's right! Shit, and I had called him Sundance so many times.
Then I said Paul Newman! Where's my dunce cap?
I think Newman was on the freakin' TV at the time I was typing, ain't that some dyslexia!

[Andre98]

The Island

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[dejavu]

never saw that movie