ML Productions

The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.

Selim, a young man adrift, is a transvestite and a prostitute who desperately longs for his father's love. Omar, his father, lives a secluded life of grief and has never recovered from the loss of his wife. Like two lonely ships, they pass silently without ever really connecting. Only destiny will bring father and son together... a little too late.

England’s Next Top Prince Consort turns Elizabethan politics into a chaotic reality competition as Queen Elizabeth I momentarily abandons statecraft to evaluate a lineup of suitors—Philip II of Spain, the Duke of Anjou, Charles II of Austria, and the ever-intrusive Robert Dudley—under the dubious guidance of judges Walsingham, Cecil, Dudley, and a confused Shakespeare. Confessionals function as court intrigue, alliances form and implode, and a cryptic lady-in-waiting named Balthazar quietly tracks every secret. Assassination rumors, theatrical entrances, and relentless scheming pile up as each contender fights for the queen’s hand and the power attached to it.