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Feb 27, 1978 · A Piece of the Action: Directed by Sidney Poitier. With Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones, Denise Nicholas. A retired Chicago cop blackmails two rich thieves into "volunteering" to help juvenile delinquents change paths.
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- Crime, Comedy
- Sidney Poitier
- 1978-02-27
English. A Piece of the Action is a 1977 American crime comedy film directed by and starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby. It was the third film pairing of Poitier and Cosby, following Uptown Saturday Night (1974) and Let's Do It Again (1975). The films are considered a trilogy, even though the actors play characters with different ...
- Melville Tucker
- Curtis Mayfield
Timothy March. “A Piece Of the Action," which stars Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby as successful gangsters blackmailed into helping a ghetto job-training program, is well intentioned but lead-footed. It has its heart in the right place, I suppose, but its key situations are so unbelievable and its dialog so awkward that nothing helps.
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Two con men (Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby) are persuaded by a retired policeman (James Earl Jones) to volunteer their services to a ghetto youth center. Rating: PG. Genre: Comedy, Drama. Original ...
- Comedy, Drama
PG. Rent. $3.99. 135min - English. CC. HD. PG. We checked for updates on 247 streaming services on April 18, 2024 at 11:50:59 PM.
- 135 min