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Changing the Game is a american film of genre Drama directed by Rel Dowdell released in USA on 31 december 2012 with Tony Todd
Changing the Game (2012)
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Add to a movie listChanging the Game is a 2012 dramatic film starring Sean Riggs, Tony Todd, Raw Leiba, Sticky Fingaz, Brandon Ruckdashel and Irma P. Hall and directed by Rel Dowdell. The film opened theatrically by AMC Theatres in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, DC, Atlanta and was cited by the noted website FilmFresh.com as one of the top three African-American films of 2012. The film recently premiered on May 15, 2014 on cable channel BET as the "Movie of the Week."
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Darrell, played by actor "Sean Riggs"; is a supremely intelligent African-American man whom rises from the tough streets of Philadelphia to the world of high finance on Wall Street. He soon learns the white-collar world is filled with as much crime as the drug-filled hood he left behind.Actors
Tony Todd
(Curtis)
Raw Leiba
(Balu)
Sticky Fingaz
(Craig Jenkins)
Brandon Ruckdashel
(Marty Levine)
Irma P. Hall
(Grandma Barnes)
Suzzanne Douglas
(Mrs. Davis, Darrell's teacher.)
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