A Piece of the Action (film)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Piece of the Action
A Piece of the Action promotional movie poster
Directed by	Sidney Poitier
Written by	Charles Blackwell Based upon a story by Timothy March
Starring	Sidney Poitier Bill Cosby James Earl Jones
Music by	Curtis Mayfield
Release date(s)	1977
Running time	135 minutes
Language	English
Preceded by	Let's Do It Again
IMDb profile

A Piece of the Action is a 1977 film starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby. Poitier also directed the film. This was the third film pairing of Poitier and Cosby following Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again. The film also stars James Earl Jones.

1 Plot Synopsis
2 Remakes
3 Cast
4 Soundtrack
5 External links

[edit] Plot Synopsis

Dave Anderson (Cosby) and Manny Durrell (Poitier) are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke (Jones) is a retired detective who has enough evidence on the both of them to put them behind bars. Instead, he offers to maintain his silence if the crooks will go straight and do work at a youth center for delinquents. At first, the crooks are reluctant and unwilling (and so are the kids). As time goes by they gain the trust and admiration of the kids and they start to enjoy the job. All goes well until someone out of the past tells them they have to do one last heist...or else...

[edit] Remakes

In 2002, it was announced that Will Smith and his production company, Overbrook Entertainment, had secured the rights to the trilogy for remakes to star Smith and to be distributed by Warner Bros.. Smith stated that he hoped to get Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and other famous African-American stars to be in the films. [1][2]