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A respected actress of the stage, screen, and television, Angela Bassett has been one of the few African-American actresses to break Hollywood's color boundary. She has specialized in playing strong women familiar with adversity and has worked in... more
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Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008)
Tags: Comedy Drama Romantic Drama Family Drama 
Length: 100min
Prolific playwright Tyler Perry adapts his popular stage play of the same name in this family-oriented comedy concerning a desperate mother who connects with the family she never knew. Brenda is a single Chicago mother of three who has been struggling...

Tags: Musical Drama Biopic Drama 
Length: 122min
Fox Searchlight presents the tragic life story of ap star Notorious B.I.G. from director George Tillman Jr. (Soul Food) and executive producer Sean "Diddy" Combs. The script is provided by Cheo Hodari Coker and Biker Boyz writer/director Reggie Rock...

Cast: Alan Alda Angela Bassett   
Tags: Drama Political Drama 
Length: 107min
A tense political drama ripped straight from the headlines, Rod Lurie's Nothing But the Truth tells the tale of a Washington, D.C. reporter who is targeted by the government after refusing to reveal her source for a story that identified an undercover...

Cast: Frank Marshall   
Tags: Comedy Sports Comedy 
Length: 102min
Directed by Charles Stone III, Mr. 3000 revolves around over-the-hill baseball star Stan Ross (Bernie Mac), who retired after making what he thought was his 3,000th base hit for the Milwaukee Brewers (i.e. the exact amount of hits it takes to qualify...

Cast: John Lasseter   
Tags: Children's Fantasy Family Sci-Fi Adventure 
Length: 96min
An orphan who dreams of someday finding a family to call his own finds his fate taking an unexpected turn when a mysterious stranger named Wilbur Robinson transports him into the future. Based on the book -A Day With Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce,...

Cast: Danny Glover Giancarlo Esposito   
Tags: Drama Social Problem Film 
Length: 98min
Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, Julia Stiles, and Samuel L. Jackson headline actor-turned-director Giancarlo Esposito's ensemble drama about a small southern town still haunted by a racially motivated murder that occurred there thirty years prior. Civil...

Cast: Laurence Fishburne   
Tags: Urban Drama Childhood Drama Drama 
Length: 107min
A young girl learns to believe in herself and value her intelligence in this critically-acclaimed, family-friendly drama. Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer) is an 11-year-old being raised by her mother, Tanya (Angela Bassett), who was left on her own...

Cast: Mary Steenburgen Ralph Waite John Sayles Edie Falco Miguel Ferrer Timothy Hutton   
Tags: Social Problem Film Ensemble Film Americana Drama 
Length: 141min
Writer and director John Sayles returns with another multi-layered look at an American community, subtly exploring how race, class, economics, and both national and regional history come together to shape people's lives. Plantation Island is a...

Cast: Marlon Brando Robert De Niro Frank Oz Edward Norton   
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime Caper 
Length: 123min
Three generations of method acting giants unite for this crime thriller written by Kario Salem and directed by Frank Oz. Robert De Niro stars as Nick Wells, an aging thief whose specialty is safecracking and who is on the verge of retiring to a life...

Cast: Cicely Tyson   
Tags: Biopic Message Movie Drama 
Length: 90min
Angela Bassett plays the title role in this meticulously detailed biography of pioneering civil rights activist Rosa McCauley Parks. Even as a child, Rosa stands separate from her fellow African-Americans; instead of being shipped off to a shabby...

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