The Monkey Hustle
"Live the scam. Work the sham."
A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party.
"Live the scam. Work the sham."
A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party.
Yaphet Kotto
Daddy Foxx
Kirk Calloway
Baby 'D
Thomas Carter
Player
Donn C. Harper
Tiny
Lynn Caridine
Jan-Jan
Patricia McCaskill
Shirl
Lynn Harris
Sweet Potatoe
Rudy Ray Moore
Goldie
Rosalind Cash
Mama
A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party.
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Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status. Only friendship will see them through this dangerous adventure alive!
The mob is trying to strongarm local martial arts schools, forcing young Jason Stillwell and his family to move after his father is injured defending their dojo. With his father now rejecting violence, Jason is forced to train on his own to protect himself and his best friend from the members of a rival karate school.
Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.
Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that it is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined.
A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.