Biography: Irma P. Hall |

A matriarchal supporting actress of film and television whose quick wit and instantly likable persona has served her well on stage and screen, Irma P. Hall has found frequent work in such African-American-oriented dramas as A Family Thing, Soul Food,... more
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Cast: Barbara Hershey   
Tags: Comedy Drama Psychological Drama 
Length: 96min
A man attempting to honor his wife's dying wish struggles to decipher what she meant when she asked him to "uncross the stars" in this gentle comedy-drama starring Daniel Gilles. In the wake of his wife's untimely death, grieving widower Troy Harper...

Cast: CCH Pounder   
Tags: Drama 
Length: min
Determined to reconcile with the mother who abandoned her when she was just a toddler, a Bahamian adolescent boards a local mail boat and sets sail for Nassau in director Maria Govan's intimate family drama. Rain has lived a sheltered life on Ragged...

Cast: Tom Hanks Ethan Coen Joel Coen Irma P. Hall   
Tags: Black Comedy Crime Comedy Comedy Crime 
Length: 104min
One of the best-loved films from the idiosyncratic British film studio Ealing Pictures gets an update from the equally idiosyncratic filmmaking team of Joel and Ethan Coen in this offbeat comedy. Marva Munson (Irma P. Hall) is a spry, elderly woman...

Something to Sing About (2000)
Tags: Religious Drama Drama Musical Drama 
Length: 89min
Something to Sing About tells the story of TNT (Family Matters' Darius McCrary), an African-American ex-con. While TNT is standing in a grocery store aisle, an elderly woman named Memaw (Irma P. Hall, Patch Adams) overhears him singing and admires his...

Cast: Cicely Tyson Joseph Sargent   
Tags: Drama Political Drama Melodrama 
Length: 120min
Don Cheadle, Mekhi Phifer, and Cicely Tyson star in this drama set in the 1940s about a black man sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit and teacher who is to counsel him as he awaits execution. A Lesson Before Dying is based on a novel by...

Tags: Comedy Drama Comedy of Manners Romantic Drama 
Length: 111min
Making its world premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, this story adapted for the screen and directed by first-timer Toni Kalem is based on the Anne Tyler novel of the same name. The story deals with finding love in a dead-end life. Evie (Lili...

Cast: Richard Roundtree   
Tags: Superhero Film Action 
Length: 97min
Low-rent, poorly-lit superhero action is the order of the day in this film from television director Kenneth Johnson -- who makes several references to his series Alien Nation throughout the course of the movie. NBA basketball superstar Shaquille...

Cast: Francis Ford Coppola Rene Russo Alan Cumming Robbie Coltrane Paul Reubens   
Tags: Family-Oriented Adventure Animal Picture Biopic Docudrama Comedy Drama 
Length: 84min
A lot of people like to say that their pets think they're human, but Trudy Lintz (Rene Russo) has taken this notion to a new level: she likes to treat her pets as if they were human. A wealthy New Yorker, Trudy has a menagerie of animals living in her...

Cast: James Earl Jones Jerry Goldsmith Robert Duvall   
Tags: Drama Family Drama 
Length: 109min
In this family drama, a white Southerner discovers that his family history isn't what he thought it was -- with the fact that he's half-black only one of his many surprises. Earl Pilcher, Jr. (Robert Duvall) runs a gas station in Arkansas; he's a...

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