Ossie Davis
          Actor  
	
	Films to Rent 
				 
	  
	        
A Man Called Adam (1966) 
- Dir. Leo Penn
Feat. Sammy Jr. Davis, Louis Armstrong, Cicely Tyson… 
- Sammy Davis Jr stars as a caustically charismatic jazz musician who questions his self–destructive lifestyle upon falling in love with a civil…
 
Scalphunters, The (1968) 
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Ossie Davis… 
- A 'mountain' Western, with fur trapper Lancaster and ex–slave Davis teaming up to recapture a cargo of stolen pelts. The script aims at various…
 
Harry and Son (1984) 
- Dir. Paul Newman
Feat. Paul Newman, Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin… 
- Earnest drama concerning cantankerous working stiff Newman and his struggling author son. Those allergic to overt symbolism may want to give this one…
 
School Daze (1988) 
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn… 
- Spike Lee's black high–school musical is perhaps over–ambitious, but the disorder is compensated in sheer exuberance and…
 
Do the Right Thing (1989)
 
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis… 
- Spike Lee's tour–de–force of racial friction and personal politics, forged his status as the most important black director in history.…
 
Joe Versus The Volcano (1990) 
- Dir. John Patrick Shanley
Feat. Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges… 
- Finding he has only six months to live, Tom Hanks is strangely offered megabucks to jump into a vat of hot lava for the sake of ancient gods. 
 
Gladiator (1992) 
- Dir. Rowdy Herrington
Feat. Cuba Jr. Gooding, James Marshall, Robert Loggia… 
- This fist–clenching he–man pic replays many of the licks from ROCKY, but it's played out with relentless professionalism. Marshall and…
 
Stand, The (1994) 
- Dir. Mick Garris
Feat. Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Laura San Giancomo… 
- Stephen King's most popular novel was also his lengthiest, which is why it takes cinematic form as a mini–series. Despite dramatic padding and…
 
Client, The (1994) 
- Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Brad Renfro, Tommy Lee Jones… 
- The best adaptation yet of a John Grisham legal–eagle novel. Susan Sarandon embraces the character–driven story that is mercifully free…
 
I'm Not Rappaport (1996) 
- Dir. Herb Gardner
Feat. Walter Matthau, Ossie Davis 
- A park–bench friendship develops between old–timers Walter Matthau and Ossie Davis, amid the riff–raff of NY's Central Park.…
 
Twelve Angry Men (1997) 
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Courtney B. Vance, George C. Scott, William Peterson… 
- An emmy award–winning television version of the classic jury–room drama. Re–written by the scriptwriter of the original film…
 
Thomas Jefferson (1997) 
- Dir. Ken Burns
Feat. Sam Waterston, Blythe Danner, Ossie Davis… 
- Burns "paints an enigmatic portrait of self–contradiction" in this comprehensive and reverential documentary of America's third President,…
 
Dr. Dolittle (1998) 
- Dir. Betty Thomas
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt… 
- Slick remake of the 1967 musical replaces songs with tech wizardry and the comic mugging of Eddie Murphy as the medic who can 'talk to the…
 
Bubba Ho-Tep (2004)
 
- Dir. Don Coscarelli
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis 
- Strangely brilliant horror–satire with an outlandish plot where Elvis Presley (living but aging and impotent) fights the evil of a reincarnated…
 
Baadasssss! (How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass) (2004) 
- Dir. Mario Van Peebles
Feat. Mario Van Peebles, Ossie Davis, Nia Long… 
- A vibrant, thought–provoking homage by actor Mario Van Peebles to his father Melvin's 1971 blaxploitation crime indie "Sweet Sweetback's…