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Article: Jamie Foxx Stars in New Comedy 'Held Up'

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May 10, 2000
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JAMIE FOXX STARS IN NEW COMEDY `HELD UP'

Smart, successful and sexy, Michael Dawson's (Jamie Foxx) a winner, a Chicago businessman with a bright future and a beautiful fiancee, Rae (Nia Long). On romantic vacation to the Grand Canyon, the young lovers tear up the highway in Michael's new toy, a vintage sports car in mint condition, purchased on a whim in Arizona. Life is perfect.

But there's a catch, one small detail, and as the saying goes, the devil is often in the details. Rae doesn't know that the car was purchased with the money they saved to buy a home. And when she discovers Michael's dirty little secret, she dumps him on the spot. Dead-set on returning to Chicago immediately to ...

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