All movies starring Ossie Davis
Doctor Dolittle (1998) ★ 5.4
Dr. John Doolittle seems to have everything one could dream of: a successful career, a beautiful wife, and two adorable daughters. To top it all off, he is about to make the biggest deal of his life. And suddenly a terrible thing happens - Dr. Doolittle notices that he awakens in him the once lost skill to speak the language of animals.
Doolittle literally understands the call of nature and can answer it. From now on, a real dog life awaits him. Four-legged and feathered patients, hearing about the miraculous healer, won't give him a pass at home or at work: "Stop talking, heal!"
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) ★ 6.9
Elvis Presley and a black "JFK" stay in a nursing home where nothing happens - until a wayward Egyptian mummy comes and sucks out the old people's souls thru their a-holes. The two decide to fight back.
Do the Right Thing (1989) ★ 7.9
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.