A Piece of the Action (film)
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2/4 Roger Ebert Genre Crime, Comedy Language English | 6.4/10 IMDb Initial DVD release January 13, 2004 Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Charles Blackwell , Timothy March Release date October 7, 1977 (1977-10-07) Cast (Manny Durrell), (Dave Anderson), (Joshua Burke), (Lila French), (Sarah Thomas), (Nikki McLean) Similar movies Mad Max: Fury Road , Memories of Murder , Blackhat , John Wick , I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine , Gone Girl Tagline A delightfully delicious dilemma! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A piece of the action 1977 movie trailer
A Piece of the Action is a 1977 American crime comedy film directed by and starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby. It was the third film pairing of Poitier and Cosby, following Uptown Saturday Night (1974) and Let's Do It Again (1975). The films are considered a trilogy, even though the actors play characters with different names in each film. It was also Poitier's last acting role for more than a decade, as he focused his attentions on directing only.
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- A piece of the action 1977 movie trailer
- A piece of the action 1977 official trailer sidney poitier bill cosby comedy movie hd
- Plot
- Cast
- Remakes
- References
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Plot
Dave Anderson (Cosby) and Manny Durrell (Poitier) are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke (Jones) is a retired detective who has enough evidence on the both of them to put them behind bars. Instead, he offers to maintain his silence if the crooks will go straight and do work at a youth center for delinquents. At first, the crooks are reluctant and unwilling (and so are the kids). As time goes by they gain the trust and admiration of the kids and they start to enjoy the job. All goes well until a past heist comes back to haunt them and they have to make up for it or else.
Cast
Remakes
In 2002, it was announced that Will Smith and his production company, Overbrook Entertainment, had secured the rights to the trilogy for remakes to star Smith and to be distributed by Warner Bros.. Smith stated that he hoped to get Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and other famous African-American stars to be in the films.
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