Ruby Dee’s Typical Vibe
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Ruby Dee has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Do the Right Thing.
Recurring themes

The Sandlot
1993
Family · Comedy

Sleepless in Seattle
1993
Comedy · Drama

The Preacher's Wife
1996
Family · Fantasy

Jamon Jamon
1992
Comedy · Drama

Welcome to the Dollhouse
1996
Comedy · Drama

L.627
1992
Drama · Thriller

Riders of Justice
2020
Action · Comedy

The Apostle
1997
Drama

Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
Dir. Spike Lee · With Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
Dir. Daniel Petrie · With Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
Dir. Arne Glimcher · With Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Blair Underwood

After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator Oliver to her. Soon, Paul will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they revert into predatory jungle cats.
Dir. Paul Schrader · With Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Dir. Spike Lee · With Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand is broken and the fairies convention is threatened by evil witches Claudia and Boots.
Dir. Michael Ritchie · With Martin Short, Kathleen Turner, Mara Wilson

Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he’s got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he’s a goner.
Dir. Brian Robbins · With Eddie Murphy, Kerry Washington, Cliff Curtis

After a deadly plague kills most of the world’s population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a maleficent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.
Dir. Stephen King · With Gary Sinise, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new partner seriously as they race the clock to bring the bad guys to justice.
Dir. Henry Winkler · With Burt Reynolds, Norman D. Golden II, Ruby Dee
BabyCo is the world's leading manufacturer in baby products. However, what the public doesn't know, is that Drs Kinder and Heep, two of its most brilliant scientists, are tirelessly working in complete secrecy to crack the indecipherable code to 'baby talk': a highly sophisticated language, and the key to the secrets of the universe. Before long, problems arise when mischievous Sly, the smartest of the toddlers, escapes confinement, bent on uniting all babies to free those trapped in the laboratory. Now, Kinder and Heep must find Sly before it is too late.
Dir. Bob Clark · With Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall
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