The Watermelon Heist

Jan 1, 2003

1h 29m

★ 3.3

A juicy tale about a seedy swindle.

Overview

To make money fast the Browns come up with a plan to win a contest for "Watermelon Juice Afro Sheen," awarding $10,000 to whoever can find the juiciest, sweetest watermelon in the country.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Step & One Half Productions

Colored Wind Productions

The Watermelon Heist Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Old Man Amos

John Amos

Nicodemus Brown

Corey Holcomb

Horny

Red Grant

Numbers

JB Smoove

Whitey

Anthony McKinley

Mercedes

Shondrella Akesan

Caprice

Monica Collier

The Angel Of Death

Rudy Ray Moore

Deputy

Max Perlich

Mailman

Art Evans

It is the year 2000 and the World Global Union is in charge, although other countries are allowed to elect their own government leaders, as long as they support the Union. When Austria's newly-elected president, played by Josef Meinrad, makes his inauguration speech he declares Austria independence and issues an edict ending Austria's financial support for the Global Union.

5.6

Striptease

Jun 28, 1996

Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she'll have to take it all off. Erin strips to conquer, but she faces unintended circumstances when a hound dog of a Congressman zeroes in on her and sharpens the shady tools at his fingertips, including blackmail and murder.

7.2

Dragons Forever

Feb 11, 1988

A hot-shot lawyer is hired by a Hong Kong chemical plant to dispose of opposition to their polluting ways. But when he falls for a beautiful woman out to stop the plant, he is torn in a conflict of interest and asks his trusty friends Samo and Biao to help out at least until they discover the true purpose of the plant.

6.8

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Jan 20, 1966

Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.

6.8

Ladies of the Jury

Feb 2, 1932

Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.

8.0

Rosen aus dem Süden

Jan 1, 1954

No overview available.

6.1

Hampstead

Jun 23, 2017

Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.

5.9

3000 Miles to Graceland

Feb 23, 2001

It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. With $3.2 million at stake, the Marshals Service closing in, Michael must track down Murphy.

6.7

Disorder in the Court

May 30, 1936

The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.

7.3

The Talk of the Town

Aug 20, 1942

Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.

6.6

Brother Orchid

Jun 7, 1940

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

10.0

Oranges and watermelons

Feb 14, 2022

After his friend asks for it, a man goes on a quest to get him an orange.

7.4

Too Many Crooks

Mar 8, 1959

Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.

6.0

The Trial of Tony Blair

Jan 15, 2007

Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes

6.7

The Lady in Question

Aug 7, 1940

When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

9.0

Cross My Heart

Dec 18, 1946

A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.

10.0

Watermelons

Dec 31, 2021

Nearing the end of his academic career, JJ (aka "lil ibuprofen") produces amateur SoundCloud rap as a way to handle the strange events of his recently chaotic life.

6.8

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

Apr 23, 1958

In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.

6.0

For the Love of Willadean

Mar 8, 1964

A new boy, Harley, joins a club but shows an interest in the girl on whom the club leader has a crush. The two club members trick Harley into stealing a prize watermelon to the dismay of the furious farmer, and later dare him to enter a supposedly haunted house in which they uncover a bag of money stolen in a bank robbery.