Some Well-Connected Movies
Like Mike

"A 14-year-old orphan becomes an NBA superstar after trying on a pair of sneakers with the faded initials """"M.J."""" inside."
2002
Michael Elliot
writer
The Wood

While dealing with a friend's cold feet on his wedding day, a writer reminisces about his youth with his best friends.
1999
Rick Famuyiwa
director
The Way of the Gun

Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
2000
Taye Diggs
actor
Chicago

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
2002
Taye Diggs
actor
Brown Sugar
Friends since childhood, a magazine editor and a hip-hop record executive stumble into romantic territory.
2002
Michael Elliot
writer
Nicole Ari Parker
actor
Rick Famuyiwa
director
Sanaa Lathan
actor
Taye Diggs
actor
Yasiin Bey
actor
King's Ransom

Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other people interested in his wealth as well.
2005
Nicole Ari Parker
actor
Our Family Wedding

The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding are comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay their long standing feud to rest.
2010
Rick Famuyiwa
director
Out of Time

A Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion.
2003
Sanaa Lathan
actor
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of """"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."""""
2005
Yasiin Bey
actor