The Meteor Man (film)

The Meteor Man is a 1993 American superhero comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Robert Townsend with supporting roles done by Marla Gibbs, Eddie Griffin, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones, Bill Cosby, and Another Bad Creation. The film also featured special appearances by Luther Vandross, Sinbad, Naughty by Nature, Cypress Hill, and Big Daddy Kane. Townsend stars as a mildmannered schoolteacher, who becomes a superhero after his neighborhood in Washington, D.C. is terrorized by street gangs. Although the film is set in Washington, it was mostly filmed in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood of Baltimore. Robert Townsend named the films protagonist Jefferson Reed, after one of his childhood heroes, his favorite teacher.

Jeff soon discovered that the meteorite had left him with spectacular abilities such as flight, xraylaser vision, superhuman strength, speed, and hearing, invulnerability, healing powers, the ability to absorb a books content by touch, super breath, telepathy with dogs which he uses to communicate with his own dog, Ellington, and telekinesis. Confiding this to his parents Ted Robert Guillaume and Maxine Marla Gibbs, they convince him to use his powers to help the community. His mother designs a costume and as the Meteor Man, he takes on the Golden Lords. He shuts downcrack houses, stopsrobberies, brings peace between the police, the Crips Cypress Hill, and the Bloods Naughty by Nature where they begin to work together to rebuild the community they destroyed, and plants a giant garden in the middle of the ghetto.The Golden Lords learn Meteor Mans secret identity and his slowly diminishing powers. As the violence gets out of hand and the Golden Lords continue their attacks, the community members plan to make a deal with them, but Jeff instead teaches them about fighting for their beliefs. A now powerless Jeff fights Simon and is beaten up. Simon points his gun at Jeff, but Jeffs neighbor Earnest Moses James Earl Jones throws a record at him, successfully knocking the gun out of Simons hand. Suddenly, the neighborhood fights back and Marvin uses the meteor fragment to strip the Golden Lords of their guns. This enabled the locals to stand up to the Golden Lords as they fight them alongside Marvins dogs. Marvin accidentally drops the meteor and both Jeff and Simon grab a piece of the rock, gaining superpowers and engage in a brawl. When Simon is about to throw a dumpster at Jeff, he hears Ellington barking telling Jeff that he can win and throws the dumpster at Ellington instead, fatally injuring Ellington. This angers Jeff and he disappears and returns as Meteor Man. They continue with their brawl with Meteor Man winning and draining Simon of his powers by abso

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