11 Movies Starring Paula Patton

Idlewild

Idlewild

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-08-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

121 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (4453 Reviews)

Director:

Bryan Barber

Fullplot:

A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.

Deja Vu

Deja Vu

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-11-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

126 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(225745 Reviews)

Director:

Tony Scott

Cast:

Writer:

Bill Marsilii

Terry Rossio

Fullplot:

A ferry filled with crewmen from the USS Nimitz and their families was blown up in New Orleans on Mardi Gras. BATF Doug Carlin is brought in to assist in the massive investigation, and gets attached to an experimental FBI surveillance unit, one that uses spacefolding technology to directly look back a little over four days into the past. While tracking down the bomber, Carlin gets an idea in his head: could they use the device to actually travel back in time and not only prevent the bombing but also the murder of a local woman whose truck was used in the bombing?

Mirrors

Mirrors

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-08-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Romania, Germany

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (80807 Reviews)

Director:

Alexandre Aja

Cast:

Writer:

Alexandre Aja (screenplay)

Grègory Levasseur (screenplay)

Sung-ho Kim (Korean motion picture "Into the Mirror")

Fullplot:

In New York, the former NYPD detective Ben Carson is hired to work as night watch of the remains of the Mayflower Department Store that was partially destroyed by fire many years ago. Ben became alcoholic and was retired from the police force after killing a man in a shooting. His marriage was also destroyed and now he is living in the apartment of his younger sister Angie. However he has not been drinking for three months and sees the employment as a chance to rebuild his life. When he goes to the rounds in his first night, he finds that the mirrors are impeccably clean and his colleague explains that the former night watch was obsessed with the mirrors. After a couple of nights, Ben sees weird images in the mirrors, but due to the lack of credibility of his past, his ex-wife Amy believes he has hallucinations as a side effect of his medication. When Angie is found brutally murdered in her bathtub, Ben discovers that there is an evil force in the mirror that is chasing him and jeopardizing his family.

Precious

Precious

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-11-20

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (78885 Reviews)

Director:

Lee Daniels

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Geoffrey Fletcher (screenplay)

Sapphire (novel)

Fullplot:

It's Harlem 1987. Sixteen year old Claireece Jones - who goes by her middle name Precious - is an illiterate, overweight black girl. She is pregnant with her second child, both children fathered by her biological father, who has continually raped her since she was a child, but who she doesn't see otherwise. Her infant daughter, Mongo - such named since she has Down Syndrome - lives with Precious' grandmother. Precious lives with her mother Mary, who abuses Precious both physically and emotionally. Mary does nothing but smoke, watch television and collect welfare through fraud (as she doesn't ever look for a job) and believes that education does nothing for Precious, who she would rather also collect welfare if only to bring money into the household. To escape her life, Precious often daydreams of herself in glamorous situations. Because of her current pregnancy, Precious' principal transfers her into an alternative school. In dealing with the school's sympathetic teacher Miss Blu Rain, Precious begins to believe that she can have a future by learning how to read and write. Despite some devastating news from her mother following the birth of her child, Precious also begins to believe she can escape the grips of her abusive mother, who, up to this point, was Precious' only real support.

Swing Vote

Swing Vote

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-08-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (14452 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Jason Richman

Joshua Michael Stern

Fullplot:

November, 2004, New Mexico. Bud is a slacker with one good thing in his life, his engaging fifth-grade daughter Molly. On election day, Bud is supposed to meet her at the polling place. When he doesn't show, she sneaks a ballot and is about to vote when the power goes off. It turns out that New Mexico's electoral votes will decide the contest, and there it's tied with one vote needing recasting - Bud's. The world's media and both presidential candidates, including the current President, descend on Bud in anticipation of his re-vote in two weeks. Can the clueless Bud, even with the help of Molly and a local TV reporter, handle this responsibility?

Precious

Precious

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-11-20

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (79110 Reviews)

Director:

Lee Daniels

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Geoffrey Fletcher (screenplay)

Sapphire (novel)

Fullplot:

It's Harlem 1987. Sixteen year old Claireece Jones - who goes by her middle name Precious - is an illiterate, overweight black girl. She is pregnant with her second child, both children fathered by her biological father, who has continually raped her since she was a child, but who she doesn't see otherwise. Her infant daughter, Mongo - such named since she has Down Syndrome - lives with Precious' grandmother. Precious lives with her mother Mary, who abuses Precious both physically and emotionally. Mary does nothing but smoke, watch television and collect welfare through fraud (as she doesn't ever look for a job) and believes that education does nothing for Precious, who she would rather also collect welfare if only to bring money into the household. To escape her life, Precious often daydreams of herself in glamorous situations. Because of her current pregnancy, Precious' principal transfers her into an alternative school. In dealing with the school's sympathetic teacher Miss Blu Rain, Precious begins to believe that she can have a future by learning how to read and write. Despite some devastating news from her mother following the birth of her child, Precious also begins to believe she can escape the grips of her abusive mother, who, up to this point, was Precious' only real support.

Baggage Claim

Baggage Claim

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-09-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(6430 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

David E. Talbert (screenplay)

David E. Talbert (based on the novel entitled "Baggage Claim" by)

Fullplot:

Determined to get engaged before her youngest sister's wedding, flight attendant Montana Moore (Paula Patton) finds herself with only 30 days to find Mr. Right. Using her airline connections to "accidentally" meet up with eligible ex-boyfriends and scour for potential candidates, she racks up more than 30,000 miles and countless comedic encounters, all the while searching for the perfect guy.

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-12-21

Languages:

English, Russian, French, Arabic, Swedish

Countries:

USA, United Arab Emirates, Czech Republic

Runtime:

133 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (331411 Reviews)

Director:

Brad Bird

Cast:

Writer:

Josh Appelbaum

Andrè Nemec

Bruce Geller (television series "Mission: Impossible")

Fullplot:

In the fourth installment of the Mission Impossible series, Ethan Hunt and a new team race against time to track down Hendricks, a dangerous terrorist who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt by the team to stop him at the Kremlin ends in a disaster, with an explosion causing severe damage to the Kremlin and the IMF being implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to invoke Ghost Protocol, under which the IMF is disavowed, and will be offered no help or backup in any form. Undaunted, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks to Dubai, and from there to Mumbai, but several spectacular action sequences later, they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

2 Guns

2 Guns

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-08-02

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (142830 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Blake Masters (screenplay)

Steven Grant (based on the Boom! Studios graphic novels by)

Fullplot:

Robert Trench, an undercover DEA agent, takes advantage of gunman Michael Stigman's idea to rob a bank to bust him and a mob boss. However, it proves too successful with much more money seized than anticipated with Trench's forces not stopping the getaway. Complicating things still more, Stigman turns out to be a Naval Intelligence agent who shoots Trench and takes the money. The interservice debacle suddenly finds Trench and Stigman in a bloody web of corrupt clandestine rivalries as they are hunted, blackmailed and isolated for the money on both sides of the law. Now, the fugitives must work together to find a way out of this situation with no one to turn to but themselves.

Just Wright

Just Wright

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-05-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (9112 Reviews)

Director:

Sanaa Hamri

Fullplot:

Leslie Wright is a straight-shooting physical therapist who gets the gig of a lifetime working with NBA All-Star Scott McKnight. All is going well until Leslie finds herself falling for Scott, forcing her to choose between the gig and the tug-of-war inside her heart. Oblivious to her romantic overtures, McKnight is instead drawn to the affections of Leslie's childhood friend Morgan, who has her sights set on being an NBA trophy wife. Is Leslie destined to play the role of "best friend" forever or will Scott finally see that what he always wanted is right in front of him?

Jumping the Broom

Jumping the Broom

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-05-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (7571 Reviews)

Director:

Salim Akil

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Elizabeth Hunter (screenplay)

Arlene Gibbs (screenplay)

Elizabeth Hunter (story)

Fullplot:

Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.

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