A Piece of the Action (film)
- A Piece of the Action (film)
Infobox Film
name = A Piece of the Action
caption = A Piece of the Action promotional movie poster
director = Sidney Poitier
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writer = Charles Blackwell Based upon a story by Timothy March
starring = Sidney Poitier
Bill Cosby
James Earl Jones
music = Curtis Mayfield
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released = 1977
runtime = 135 minutes
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language = English
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preceded_by = "Let's Do It Again"
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imdb_id = 0076543
"A Piece of the Action" is a 1977 film starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby. Poitier also directed the film. This was the third film pairing of Poitier and Cosby following "Uptown Saturday Night" and "Let's Do It Again". The film also stars James Earl Jones.
Plot synopsis
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 someone out of the past tells them they have to do one last heist...or else...
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. [ [http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1453124/03282002/smith_will.jhtml] ] [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072351/news] ]
Cast
*Sidney Poitier - Manny Durrell
*Bill Cosby - Dave Anderson
*James Earl Jones - Joshua Burke
*Denise Nicholas - Lila French
*Hope Clarke - Sarah Thomas
*Tracy Reed - Nikki McLean
*Titos Vandis - Bruno
*Frances Foster - Bea Quitman
*Jason Evers - Ty Shorter
*Marc Lawrence - Louie
*Ja'net DuBois - Nellie Bond
*Sheryl Lee Ralph - Barbara Hanley
*Ernest Lee Thomas - John
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External links
*imdb title|0076543|A Piece of the Action
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