Top Five

Dec 12, 2014

1h 42m

★ 6.1

Overview

Though he began in stand-up comedy, Andre Allen hit the big-time as the star of a trilogy of action-comedies about a talking bear but now he wants to be taken seriously. His passion project about the Haitian Revolution, a movie called Uprize, was panned by the NY Times film critic. A couple days before the wedding to his reality star fiancée, he's forced to spend the day with Chelsea Brown, a profile writer for the New York Times. Unexpectedly, he opens up to her, and as they wind their way across New York, he tries to get back in touch with his comedic roots.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

IAC Films

Top Five Trailers

Cast

Andre Allen

Chris Rock

Chelsea Brown

Rosario Dawson

Silk

JB Smoove

Erica Long

Gabrielle Union

Benny

Romany Malco

Brad

Anders Holm

Jazzy Dee

Cedric the Entertainer

Charles

Kevin Hart

Fred

Tracy Morgan

Vanessa

Sherri Shepherd

Lisa

Leslie Jones

Tammy

Hayley Marie Norman

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