Some Well-Connected Movies
Bamboozled

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.
2000
Jada Pinkett Smith
actor
Ray

The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.
2004
Jamie Foxx
actor
The Last Castle

A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the corrupt system that put him away.
2001
Mark Ruffalo
actor
13 Going on 30

A girl makes a wish on her 13th birthday and wakes up the next day as a 30-year-old woman.
2004
Mark Ruffalo
actor
Ali

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.
2001
Michael Mann
director
The Last Samurai

An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.
2003
Tom Cruise
actor
Collateral
A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.
2004
Jada Pinkett Smith
actor
Jamie Foxx
actor
Mark Ruffalo
actor
Michael Mann
director
Stuart Beattie
writer
Tom Cruise
actor
Madagascar

Spoiled by their upbringing and unaware of what wildlife really is, four animals from the New York Central Zoo escape, unwittingly assisted by four absconding penguins, and find themselves in Madagascar.
2005
Jada Pinkett Smith
actor
Stealth

Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control before it initiates the next world war.
2005
Jamie Foxx
actor
Public Enemies

The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
2009
Michael Mann
director
Derailed

When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, the two must turn the tables on him to save their families.
2005
Stuart Beattie
writer
War of the Worlds

As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival.
2005
Tom Cruise
actor