Movies starring Cuba Gooding Jr.

Biography: 
Cuba Gooding Jr. was born on January 2, 1968 in The Bronx, New York. His father, Cuba Gooding, was the lead vocalist for the R&B group The Main Ingredient who had a hit with the song "Everybody Plays The Fool". His mother, Shirley, was a backup singer for The Sweethearts. His father moved the family to Los Angeles in 1972 only to abandon them two years later. Despite this setback, Cuba was able to ...  show all 

Daddy Day Camp (2007)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Cuba Gooding Jr. | Lochlyn Munro | Richard Gant | Tamala Jones | Paul Rae | Josh McLerran | Spencir Bridges | Brian Doyle-Murray | Dallin Boyce | Telise Galanis | Taggart Hurtubise | Molly Jepson | Tad D'Agostino | Tyger Rawlings | Talon G. Ackerman
Directors: Fred Savage
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Daddy Day Care pals Charlie and Phil are back in this hilarious, all-new adventure: Daddy Day Camp! When the dads expand their childcare magic to Camp Driftwood - serving up sports, crafts and teaching the kids a thing or two about nature, they discover the camp has everything it needs except a plan to put the bullies of rival Camp Canola to shame. With some quick thinking, teamwork, a secret weapon and some off-the-wall crazy antics, the dads and kids unite to make sure Daddy Day Camp secures its rightful place in kid camp history!

What Dreams May Come (1998)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Annabella Sciorra | Max von Sydow | Jessica Brooks Grant | Josh Paddock | Rosalind Chao | Lucinda Jenney | Maggie McCarthy | Wilma Bonet | Matt Salinger | Carin Sprague | June Lomena | Paul P. Card IV | Werner Herzog
Directors: Vincent Ward
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Soul mates Chris (’Robin Williams (I)’ (qv)) and Annie (’Annabella Sciorra’ (qv)) couldn’t be happier, having married each other and had two wonderful children. Unforutnately, tragedy strikes when they lose them both in a car accident, and then again for Annie many years later when Chris is killed in another accident. What Chris finds is a Paradise unlike anything he ever imagined, where he is guided by Albert (’Cuba Gooding Jr.’ (qv)), the first doctor he interned under and is helped to see his children once again. Unfortunately, when Annie takes her life in despair, she does not venture to the same plane of existence. Taking it upon himself to rescue her, Chris ventures into the pit of Hell with Albert and a Tracker (’Max von Sydow’ (qv)) to save his wife from the damnation she doesn’t even know she is forcing on herself. This is a beautiful story that reminds us that love is stronger than death.

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Josh Hartnett | Kate Beckinsale | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Jon Voight | Alec Baldwin | Tom Sizemore | William Lee Scott | Greg Zola | Ewen Bremner | Jaime King | Catherine Kellner | Jennifer Garner | Sara Rue | Michael Shannon
Directors: Michael Bay
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The above summaries do a great job of describing the dynamics of the love triangle that develops between the two pilots that fall in love with the same nurse. The movie also does a credible job of displaying the war from the American side with FDR and our side. It also shows the strategy of Japan as they plan for and execute all facets of the attack on Pearl Harbor. While all details may not be historically correct, I believe that they do the job well - all things considered. Historic events that were altered were probably done so in an attempt to also make this movie the entertaining epic that it is.

As Good as It Gets (1997)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Helen Hunt | Greg Kinnear | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Skeet Ulrich | Shirley Knight | Yeardley Smith | Lupe Ontiveros | Jill the Dog | Timer the Dog | Billy the Dog | Bibi Osterwald | Ross Bleckner | Bernadette Balagtas | Jaffe Cohen
Directors: James L. Brooks
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New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.

Shadowboxer (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cuba Gooding Jr. | Helen Mirren | Vanessa Ferlito | Macy Gray | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Mo'Nique | Stephen Dorff | Matt Higgins | Tom Pasch | Ryan Eric Speise | Cullen Flynn Clancy | Marilyn Yoblick | Darnell Williams | Marvina Vinique
Directors: Lee Daniels
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When Rose, a female assassin, is diagnosed with terminal cancer; she decides to carry out one final killing, assisted by lover and also stepson, Mickey.

Dirty (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Frank Alvarez | Clifton Collins Jr. | Brittany Daniel | Keith David | Robert Flores | Aimee Garcia | César García Gómez | Nicholas Gonzalez | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Kevin Grevioux | Wood Harris | Cole Hauser | Wyclef Jean | Pat Healy | Tory Kittles
Directors: Chris Fisher
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In a Los Angeles dominated by violent gangs and a corrupt LAPD Precinct, the dirty Officer Armando Sancho is haunted by his guilty since an innocent old man was accidentally killed in an operation with his also dirty partner Salim Adel. The Internal Affairs is pressing Sancho, who feels split between the loyalty to his mates and his conscience, and he has to make a statement at 6:00 PM. When his superiors Captain Spain and his Lieutenant assign the two cops for an operation dealing drugs apprehended by the police and stored as evidence with a powerful drug dealer, Sancho feels that something is wrong and they have been framed.

Norbit (2007)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Murphy | Thandie Newton | Terry Crews | Clifton Powell | Mighty Rasta | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Eddie Griffin | Katt Williams | Floyd Levine | Anthony Russell | Pat Crawford Brown | Jeanette Miller | Michael Colyar | Marlon Wayans | Alexis Rhee
Directors: Brian Robbins
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Norbit (Murphy) is a normal person, who after being adopted by Mr. Wong (Murphy), ends up being married to the very large, Rasputia (Murphy). Norbit’s childhood love, Kate Thomas (Newton) arrives back in town to buy the orphanage. Norbit sees this as his chance to get back together with Kate, until he discovers that she is in fact engaged to Deion Hughes (Gooding, Jr.). Norbit isn’t going to lay this to rest, whilst he tries to survive life with Rasputia, and it looks like Deion also has something he would like to keep secret.

Boat Trip (2002)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Cuba Gooding Jr. | Horatio Sanz | Roselyn Sanchez | Vivica A. Fox | Maurice Godin | Roger Moore | Lin Shaye | Victoria Silvstedt | Ken Hudson Campbell | Zen Gesner | William Bumiller | Noah York | Richard Roundtree | Bob Gunton | Jennifer Gareis
Directors: Mort Nathan
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Jerry and Nick are two best buddies whose love lives have hit rock bottom, Jerry’s especially, having just vomited all over his fiancé on a hot air balloon trip prior to proposing to her. To escape their troubles and find women, they book a trip on board a cruise-liner, unaware the travel agent has just played a horrid trick on them in retaliation for Nick offending his secret gay lover. And that’s the trick; it’s a gay cruise-liner for gay men to meet and mingle. Slowly but surely, the two main characters begin to realize this and in turn get into a lot of humorous predicaments.

Rat Race (2001)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: John Cleese | Rowan Atkinson | Amy Smart | Breckin Meyer | Jenica Bergere | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Carrie Diamond | Douglas Haase | Chris Myers | Kevin Frazier | Seth Green | Gloria Allred | Vince Vieluf | Renée Lee | Corinna Harney | Jane C. Walsh | Whoopi Goldberg | Lanei Chapman
Directors: Jerry Zucker
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A group of billionaires led by a Las Vegas casino owner (John Cleese) search for things to bet on. They decide to pull a group of six strangers together to race from Vegas to Silver City, New Mexico to retrieve $2 million hidden in a locker. First one there gets all of the money. The first team are two addled brothers (Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, who talks indecipherably because of a newly pierced tongue). When they cannot catch a plane, they plot to destroy an airport control tower in a very funny sequence. Their antics carry them into a hot air balloon chase that catches a cow with a dangling rope and into a monster truck competition. The second team is an estranged mother (Whoopi Goldberg) reunited with her daughter (Lanai Chapman), who is struggling to start a business. They face an insane squirrel-selling woman (Kathy Bates) and steal a rocket car scheduled for a land speed record attempt. A hated NFL referee (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is stranded in the desert by an irate cabbie (Paul Rodriguez) and hijacks a busload of Lucille Ball look-alikes on the way to a convention. The Jewish family man (Jon Lovitz) on a family vacation joins the race without telling his wife (Kathy Najimy) why they are rushing across the country. When his daughter insists on stopping at a Barbie museum, it is without realization that it is the Klaus Barbie Nazi Museum. The escape from that location involves the theft of Hitler’s personal touring car and culminates with Lovitz having his tongue burned and accidentally crashing into a WWII Veteran’s convention. A narcoleptic Italian (Rowan Atkinson in his best Mr. Bean-like manner) gets a ride with an ambulance driver (Wayne Knight), who is carting a human heart for a transplant. Through various ineptitude, the heart ends up flying out of the truck’s window and the two have to recover it from a playful dog. The final race member (Breckin Meyer) is a straight-laced future lawyer who at first declines to participate in the race, but re-thinks his position after he meets a smart, beautiful woman (Amy Smart) who is flying a helicopter to New Mexico. He quickly finds out that she is unbalanced after she flies over her boy friend’s house and starts an attack on the boy friend when she sees him in the pool with an ex-girl friend. An air pursuit results in the crash of the helicopter. Dave Thomas also appears as Cleese’s humorless attorney.

Jerry Maguire (1996)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Cruise | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Renée Zellweger | Kelly Preston | Jerry O'Connell | Jay Mohr | Bonnie Hunt | Regina King | Jonathan Lipnicki | Todd Louiso | Mark Pellington | Jeremy Suarez | Jared Jussim | Benjamin Kimball Smith | Ingrid Beer
Directors: Cameron Crowe
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Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he’s really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player. Can Jerry resurrect his career while still staying true to himself?