Some Well-Connected Movies
The Business of Strangers

Two businesswomen bond and reveal their inner natures while getting carried away on a revenge attack against an accused rapist.
2001
Julia Stiles
actor
Save the Last Dance
A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past.
2001
Duane Adler
writer
Fredro Starr
actor
Julia Stiles
actor
Kerry Washington
actor
Sean Patrick Thomas
actor
Thomas Carter
director
Step Up

Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with an up and coming dancer, Nora.
2006
Duane Adler
writer
Diamond Ruff

Orphan, con artist, crime boss, millionaire, Diamond Ruff has seen it all. Seemingly in control, his next big job has deadly consequences.
2015
Fredro Starr
actor
Mona Lisa Smile

A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 1950s Wellesley girls to question their traditional social roles.
2003
Julia Stiles
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
Kerry Washington
actor
Barbershop

A day in the life of a South Side Chicago barbershop.
2002
Sean Patrick Thomas
actor
Coach Carter

Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.
2005
Thomas Carter
director