The best Bubba Smith’s movies

Bubba Smith

Bubba Smith

28/02/1945- 03/08/2011
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Police Academy

Police Academy
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 22/03/1984
  • Character: Cadet Moses Hightower
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 28/03/1985
  • Character: Hightower
Officer Carey Mahoney and his cohorts have finally graduated from the Police Academy and are about to hit the streets on their first assignment. Question is, are they ready to do battle with a band of graffiti-tagging terrorists? Time will tell, but don't sell short this cheerful band of doltish boys in blue.

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 02/04/1987
  • Character: Sgt. Moses Hightowe
A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard's new Citizens on Patrol program. Although the community relations project has strong governmental support, a disgusted Captain Harris is determined to see it fail.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch
6.4/10
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!

Police Academy 3: Back in Training

Police Academy 3: Back in Training
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 20/03/1986
  • Character: Sgt. Moses Hightower
When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in Lassard's academy to better his odds, but things don't quite turn out as expected...

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
4.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 09/03/1989
  • Character: Lt. Moses Hightower
Our favourite police men are called together to deal with a gang who rob banks and jewelers. Using their various talents as well as their extraordinary luck, the crooks stand no chance against our men and women in blue.

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
4.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 17/03/1988
  • Character: Sgt. Moses Hightower
The Police Academy misfits travel to Miami Beach for Commandant Lassard to be honored with a prestigious lifetime award pending his retirement. Things take a turn when Lassard unknowingly ends up in possession of stolen diamonds from a jewel heist.

Black Moon Rising

Black Moon Rising
5.5/10
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.

The Silence of the Hams

The Silence of the Hams
4.6/10
The federal agent Joe Dee Foster is currently investigating a serial killer, helped by doctor Animal who is isolated in a maximum security jail.

Stroker Ace

Stroker Ace
4.9/10
Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress up in giant chicken suit) he spends the rest of the movie trying to bed the buxom Pembrook.

The Naked Truth

The Naked Truth
3.5/10
Two friends, both named Frank, accidentally obtain a suitcase at the airport. It contains incriminating evidence against a mafia boss, who sends his Terminator-like lackie to find them. The Franks hide by impersonating make-up women for a beauty pageant. While in drag, the mafioso falls in love with one of the Franks.

Superdome

Superdome
2.9/10
It's Superbowl. And there's a lot of drama, one of the players, Dave Wolecki, has been so preoccupied with the game and if his bum knee will hold out until the game, has been completely ignoring his wife. And McCauley, the team's star quarterback, is being courted by a management firm, and the man the firm has assigned to get him into the firm has been told that if he doesn't get him, he will be out. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's a killer running around. It seems that the syndicate doesn't want the highly favored Cougars to win. They tried to get the team's trainer to drug or incapacitate some players, and when he refuses he is killed. So, the team's manager has to try and find out who the killer is, before he does some real damage.

Full Clip

Full Clip
3.2/10
On returning home to settle his late father's affairs, Joshua Pope (Busta Rhymes) finds a different town from the one he left. The once quiet and peaceful neighborhood is now at the mercy of a prejudice and corrupt police force. Joshua is joined by an old friend (Xzibit) and his gang of thugs in an effort to overthrow the police and restore order to the small Alabama town.

Drifting School

Drifting School
4.7/10
A spy satellite has malfunctioned and is going to crash into the Earth. The US government bring on line a power laser. When the laser strikes the satellite, it causes a rip and time and sends Monroe High school 200 years into the future, including teachers, students and an escaping criminal. The students find themselves in a barren world, where they are set upon by the escaped criminal and a fierce monster.

Half Nelson

Half Nelson
6.2/10
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor. However, when he gets there, the directors think that he is too short to be an actor. He is then approach by someone who offers him a job at a Hollywood security agency, cause he would fit in there being an ex-cop and while working there he could come in contact with some Hollywood heavy-weights who could give him the break he needs. And at the same he gets to live in Dean Martin's guest-house.

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
5.6/10
A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a gang of horse thieves, train and bank robbers with their arch enemy, Detective Will Smith, constantly on their heels.

The Wild Pair

The Wild Pair
4.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/12/1987
  • Character: Benny Avalon
A strait-laced FBI agent and a hulking, big-hearted narcotics cop team up to track down a drug lord associated with a militant hate group.

Escape from DS-3

Escape from DS-3
4/10
Prisoners of Detention Satellite 3 plan an impossible escape.

Down 'n Dirty

Down 'n Dirty
3.8/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 23/10/2001
  • Character: Det. Jerry Cale
Dakota Smith is an experienced policeman with a problem: his partner was shot dead, and corrupt cops are responsible. Dak's investigation leads him to widespread corruption in the department, as well as a corrupt district attorney. Smith finds an unlikely ally in timid photographer Nick Gleem. While Gleem unearths clues about the bad guys, Dak fends off attacks on his own life. While he's not in gun battles with these local villains, divorced father Dak has no shortage of lady friends to keep him happy.

Bubba Until It Hurts

Bubba Until It Hurts
  • Release: 01/01/1985
This 1985 exercise video, filmed post-NFL and pre-”Police Academy,” cemented Bubba Smith’s reputation as one of the sweetest (and sweatiest) big men of all time.

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