The Meteor Man

The Meteor Man is written, directed and stars Robert Townsend, the Independent Spirits Awards nominee for Hollywood Shuffle; Cable ACE Award-winner for The Best of Robert Townsend & His Partners In Crime and the American Black Film Festival Career Achievement Award-winner.

Triple-threat Robert Townsend (writer, director & actor) stars as the shy and retiring schoolteacher, Jefferson Reed in The Meteor Man. Jefferson, who gains mysterious super powers when he's struck by a meteor fragment, uses those powers to help his neighborhood combat gang crime. A time-honored tradition of superheroes, Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Jefferson's courage will be tested as his super powers diminish and he must decide where true strength really lies.

The Meteor Man, a comic-action film with heart, co-stars James Earl Jones (Star Wars, Convicts), Marla Gibbs (TV's The Jeffersons and 227), Robert Guillaume (TV's Soap and Benson), Don Cheadle (Ocean's 11, TV's House of Lies), Eddie Griffin (Undercover Brother, TV's Malcolm & Eddie), Frank Gorshin (TV's Batman), Sinbad (TV's A Different World) and singer Nancy Wilson (The Big Score).