Sunday, July 7, 2024

MALCOLM X (1992)

 




















Directed by: Spike Lee
Based on the autobiography "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by: Malcolm XAlex Haley
Starring: Denzel WashingtonSpike LeeAngela BassettAlbert HallAl Freeman JrDelroy LindoBobby SealeAl SharptonNelson MandelaTheresa RandleKate VernonErnest Lee ThomasChristopher PlummerLonette McKeeTommy HollisGiancarlo EspositoWendell PierceLeonard L. ThomasLeland GanttMichael Guess, Roger Guenveur SmithJames McDanielSteve WhiteVeronica WebbJean-Claude La MarreDebi MazarKaren AllenPeter BoyleDavid Patrick KellyO.L. DukeLarry McCoyJoe SenecaLaTanya RichardsonShirley StolerCraig WassonMary AliceWalter Emanuel JonesBilly J. MitchellBeatrice WindePhyllis Yvonne StickneyMonty RossRicky GordanWilliam KunstlerNicholas TurturroJohn SaylesMichael ImperioliVincent D'Onofrio

201 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, drug use)

PLOT:
Biograpical epic of Malcolm X, the legendary African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father (a Garveyite Baptist minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca, there he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim and changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz. He is assassinated on February 21, 1965 and dies a Muslim martyr.

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