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Waist Deep is a american film of genre Drama directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall released in USA on 23 june 2006 with Tyrese Gibson
Waist Deep (2006)
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Add to a movie listWaist Deep is a 2006 drama-action film directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall, starring Tyrese Gibson and Meagan Good. It is loosely based on the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, including some similar subplots including the two main characters on the road, trying to avoid police, and committing bank robberies.
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Ex-con Otis (Tyrese Gibson), or "O2" as he was once known on account of his ability to vanish from a crime scene like oxygen, has done his time and is now determined to stay out of trouble and never leave his young son, Otis, Jr. (played by Vondie Curtis-Hall's young son, Henry Hunter Hall), ever again.Actors
Tyrese Gibson
(O2)
Meagan Good
(Coco)
Larenz Tate
(Lucky)
Kimora Lee Simmons
(Fencing House Lady)
The Game
(Meat)
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