Biography: Alfre Woodard |
Intense, versatile African-American actress Alfre Woodard attended Boston University, then made her stage bow in 1974 with Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage. After a few minor appearances in films like Remember My Name (1978) and H.E.A.L.T.H (1979), the... more
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Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (2008)
Cast: Kathy Bates
Tags: Family Drama Drama
Length: 111min
Alfre Woodard and Kathy Bates star in writer/director Tyler Perry's family drama about an upper-crust family and their working-class counterparts, who discover that scandal knows no social boundaries. Charlotte Cartwright (Bates) and Alice Pratt...
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: min
Writer/director Caran Hartsfield's lack comedy Bury Me Standing (2008) observes four family members in the wake of a 26-year-old relative's death from homicide. Mos Def and Alfre Woodard co-star. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007)
Cast: Sissy Spacek Tony Bill
Tags: Drama Childhood Drama
Length: min
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 111min
The heightened racial tensions of post-9/11 America are at the center of this 2007 drama, the feature debut from director Hesham Issawi. Co-writer Sayed Badreya stars as Mustafa, an Egyptian-born entrepreneur facing the daily challenges of an Arab...
National Geographic: Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty (2007)
Tags: Anthropology World History Social History History
Length: 45min
For millennia, the strange and inexplicable disappearance of Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt, reigned as one of history's most formidable unsolved mysteries. Despite the royal's reputation as one of the most uncompromising and widely-loathed rulers in...
Cast: Ken Burns
Tags: Biography History Military & War
Length: 90min
Discover how some remarkable soldiers found the strength to face almost certain death to save the lives of others in this documentary tracing the history of the Medal of Honor from the Civil War to the Iraq war. It was during the Civil War that the...
Cast: Alfre Woodard Seymour Cassel LeVar Burton
Tags: Comedy Drama Odd Couple Film Slice of Life
Length: min
LeVar Burton writes, directs, and stars in this drama set in a hospice, and following two patients who realize how to live and love as they begin the dying process. Alfre Woodard and Seymour Cassel star. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Gary Sinise Julianne Moore James Horner
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller Supernatural Thriller
Length: 91min
A grieving woman must make a journey into her past in this psychological thriller. Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) is a mother who is struggling to put her life back together after the unexpected death of her eight-year-old son. Telly begins seeing a...
Tags: Family Science Fiction Fantasy Adventure Children's Fantasy
Length: 138min
A pair of misfit siblings travel across time and space to save their father from enslavement in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic children's novel by Madeleine L'Engle. Meg Murry (Katie Stuart), a tomboy who fits in with neither the kids nor...
Cast: Frank Langella
Length: min
This made-for-TV movie is a remake of the theatrical feature Conrack, using the original title of the source novel by Pat Conroy. Set in 1969, The Water Is Wide stars Jeff Hephner as Conroy, an idealistic young teacher whose first assignment is at a...
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