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Opening

Captain Phillips

88%

Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi

PG-13, 2 hr. 14 min.

25%	Machete Kills	Oct 11
——	Haunt	Oct 11
42%	All the Boys Love Mandy Lane	Oct 11
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Top Box Office

Gravity

98%

Sandra Bullock, George Clooney

PG-13, 1 hr. 31 min.

59%	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
8%	Runner Runner
80%	Prisoners
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Coming Soon

Kill Your Darlings

78%

Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan

R, 1 hr. 40 min.

——	Carrie	Oct 18
——	Escape Plan	Oct 18
35%	The Fifth Estate	Oct 18
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After Earth

11%

Will Smith, Jaden Smith

PG-13, 1 hr. 40 min.

38%	The Purge	Jun 07
84%	Much Ado About Nothing	Jun 07
78%	Europa Report	Aug 02
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Top Rentals

Iron Man 3

79%

Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow

PG-13, 1 hr. 49 min.

4%	Scary Movie 5	Apr 12
67%	World War Z	Jun 21
87%	Star Trek Into Darkness	May 16
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Coming Soon to DVD

Pacific Rim

72%

Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam

PG-13, 2 hr. 11 min.

65%	The Heat	Jun 28
63%	Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain	Jul 03
97%	A Hijacking	Jun 21
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Beauty and the Beast: Season 2

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The CW

——	Hart of Dixie: Season 3

Tonight's New Episodes

2 Broke Girls: Season 3

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CBS

——	Bones: Season 9
83%	The Blacklist: Season 1
——	Castle: Season 6

On Last Night

American Dad!: Season 10

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FOX

10%	Betrayal: Season 1
88%	Boardwalk Empire: Season 4
——	Bob's Burgers: Season 4

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Columns

Prisoners

Kevin A. Ranson

MovieCrypt.com

The film's pace is an endurance test... (but) everyone gets to share in the dread of the...

Gravity CJ Johnson, ABC Radio (Australia)

Rush Matt Neal, The Standard

Latest DVD Reviews

This Is the End

Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

...runs on some delicious self-critique.

Europa Report Christopher Null, Film Racket

The Croods James Plath, Movie Metropolis

Latest TV Reviews

Eastbound & Down: Season 4

Jon Caramanica

New York Times

No recent television show has toggled so violently between brilliant and execrable as...

Betrayal: Season 1 Kelly West, CinemaBlend.com

Homeland: Season 3 Jeff Jensen, Entertainment Weekly

Morgan Freeman

Total Box Office:: $3108.7M
Highest Rated:: 98% Born To Be Wild (2011)
Lowest Rated:: 0% The Contract (2007)

Birthday:: Jun 1
Birthplace:: Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Bio:: Morgan Freeman has enjoyed an impressive and varied career on stage, television, and screen. It is a career that began in the mid-'60s, when Freeman appeared in an off-Broadway production of The Niggerlovers and with Pearl Bailey in an all-African-American Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! in…

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

MOVIES

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
	Transcendence: The IMAX Experience	Actor	--	2014
	The Lego Movie	Actor	--	2014
	Transcendence	Actor	--	2014
	Lucy	Actor	--	2014
	Dolphin Tale 2	Actor	--	2014
	Last Vegas	Archie	--	2013
54%	Oblivion	Beech	$89.0M	2013
47%	Olympus Has Fallen	Speaker Allan Trumbull	$98.9M	2013
50%	Now You See Me	Thaddeus Bradley	$117.7M	2013
88%	The Dark Knight Rises	Fox	$448.1M	2012
29%	The Magic of Belle Isle	Monte Wildhorn	$0.1M	2012
82%	Dolphin Tale	Dr. Cameron McCarthy	$72.3M	2011
98%	Born To Be Wild	Narrator	$23.0M	2011
	The Last White Knight	Actor	--	2011
	Eastwood Factor	Narrator	--	2010
	For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots	Actor	--	2010
	For Love of Liberty	Actor	--	2010
72%	Red	Joe Matheson	$90.4M	2010
	The Last Full Measure	Actor	--	2010
	The Maiden Heist	Charles Producer	$0.5M	2009
	The People Speak	Actor	--	2009
	Human Factor	Actor Producer	--	2009
	Delta Rising	Actor	--	2009
76%	Invictus	Producer Nelson Mandela	$37.4M	2009
	Prom Night in Mississippi	Actor	--	2008
	Thick as Thieves (The Code)	Ripley	--	2008
94%	The Dark Knight	Lucius Fox	$533.3M	2008
71%	Wanted	Sloan	$134.3M	2008
	Marva Collins Story	Actor	--	2008
40%	The Bucket List	Carter Chambers	$93.5M	2007
	e2: Energy	Actor	--	2007
	African American Lives 2	Actor	--	2007
39%	Feast of Love	Harry Stevenson	$3.4M	2007
0%	The Contract	Frank Carden	--	2007
94%	Gone Baby Gone	Jack Doyle	$20.3M	2007
23%	Evan Almighty	God	$100.3M	2007
	All About Us	Actor	--	2007
63%	10 Items or Less	Him	$69.3k	2006
51%	Lucky Number Slevin	The Boss	$22.4M	2006
	Greasy Rider	Actor	--	2006
	African American Lives	Actor	--	2006
	Electric Company - Greatest Hits & Bits	Actor	--	2006
85%	Batman Begins	Lucius Fox	$205.2M	2005
	Blue Divas	Actor	--	2005
	Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters	Actor	--	2005
65%	Unleashed (Danny the Dog)	Sam	$24.4M	2005
	Slavery and the Making of America	Actor	--	2005
74%	War of the Worlds	Narrator	$234.1M	2005
88%	Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D	Actor	$32.5M	2005
94%	March of the Penguins	Narrator	$77.4M	2005
0%	Edison (Edison Force)	Wallace	--	2005
53%	An Unfinished Life	Mitch Bradley	$8.5M	2005
91%	Million Dollar Baby	Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris	$100.4M	2004
	Decisions That Shook The World	Actor	--	2004
16%	The Big Bounce	Walter Crewes	$6.3M	2004
	America Beyond the Color Line	Actor	--	2004
	Hope Springs Eternal: A Look Back at 'The Shawshank Redemption'	Actor	--	2004
	Rameses: Wrath of God or Man?	Actor	--	2004
74%	The Hunting of the President	Narrator Director	--	2003
35%	Levity	Miles Evans	--	2003
48%	Bruce Almighty	God	$242.6M	2003
	The Art of Romare Bearden	Narrator	--	2003
30%	Dreamcatcher	Colonel Abraham Curtis	$33.6M	2003
	Guilty by Association	Actor	--	2003
	Last of the Mississippi Jukes	Actor	--	2003
	Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War	Narrator	--	2002
59%	The Sum of All Fears	William Cabot	$118.5M	2002
31%	High Crimes	Charles Grimes	$41.4M	2002
32%	Along Came a Spider	Alex Cross	$73.6M	2001
	Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature	Actor	--	2001
84%	Nurse Betty	Charlie	$25.0M	2000
	Scandalize My Name: Stories From the Blacklist	Host	--	2000
49%	Under Suspicion	Capt. Victor Benezet	--	2000
25%	Hard Rain	Jim	--	1998
47%	Deep Impact	President Beck	--	1998
76%	Amistad	Theodore Joadson	--	1997
	The Long Way Home	Narrator	--	1997
30%	Kiss The Girls	Alex Cross	--	1997
16%	Chain Reaction	Paul Shannon	--	1996
43%	Moll Flanders	Hibble	--	1996
	National Geographic - Inside the White House	Narrator	--	1996
	Cosmic Voyage	Narrator	--	1996
59%	Outbreak	Gen. Billy Ford	--	1995
84%	Seven (Se7en)	William Somerset	--	1995
90%	The Shawshank Redemption	Ellis Boy "Red" Redding	--	1994
80%	Bopha	Director	--	1993
96%	Unforgiven	Ned Logan	--	1992
39%	The Power of One	Geel Piet	--	1992
	Rabbit Ears - Follow the Drinking Gourd	Storyteller	--	1992
	Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories	Actor	--	1992
	Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born	Narrator	--	1992
	Essential Directors: Clint Eastwood	Actor	--	1992
	True Story of 'Glory' Continues	Actor	--	1991
59%	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	Azeem	--	1991
16%	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Judge Leonard White	--	1990
79%	Driving Miss Daisy	Hoke Colburn	--	1989
67%	Lean on Me	Joe Clark	--	1989
93%	Glory	John Rawlins	--	1989
62%	Johnny Handsome	Lt. A.Z. Drones	--	1989
	Blood Money: The Story of Clinton and Nadine	Dorsey Pratt	--	1988
55%	Clean and Sober	Craig	--	1988
	Fight for Life	Actor	--	1987
69%	Street Smart	Fast Black	--	1987
	Resting Place	Luther Johnson	--	1986
	Atlanta Child Murders	Ben Shelter	--	1985
	The Gospel at Colonus	Actor	--	1985
	Marie	Charles Traughber	--	1985
0%	That Was Then... This Is Now	Charlie Woods	--	1985
	Execution of Raymond Graham	Actor	--	1985
22%	Harry & Son	Siemanowski	--	1984
58%	Teachers	Lewis	--	1984
89%	Eyewitness	Lieutenant Black	--	1981
	The Marva Collins Story	Clarence Collins	--	1981
	Death of a Prophet	Malcolm X	--	1981
75%	Brubaker	Walter	--	1980
	Attica	Hap Richards	--	1980
	Julius Caesar	Actor	--	1979
	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Actor	--	1978
	Best of the Best of The Electric Company	Actor	--	1971
	Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! (Barney)	Afro	--	1971
	Tusker	Actor	--

Morgan Freeman Trivia

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In January 2001, opened Madidi, a fine-dining restaurant in Clarksdale, MS, with local attorney and businessman, Bill Lucket. They also co-own Ground Zero Blues Club, a blues bar and grill that opened in May 2001.

- submitted by Steven V (3 years ago)

His performance as Fast Black in Street Smart is ranked #77 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

- submitted by Steven V (3 years ago)

Quotes from Morgan Freeman's Characters

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1. General Edward Clegg: I am ordering you to stand down!
2. Speaker Allan Trumbull: News flash, asshole, I don't work for you.
From Olympus Has Fallen. Submitted by Nick F (3 days ago)

1. Frankie Dunn: You got big holes in your socks.
2. Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Oh, no, they're not that big.
3. Frankie Dunn: Didn't I give you some money for some new ones.
4. Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: These are my sleepin' socks. My feet like a little air at night
5. Frankie Dunn: But how come you're wearin' them in the daytime then.
6. Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Because my daytime socks got too many holes in them.
From Million Dollar Baby. Submitted by Alyssa B (22 days ago)