Biography: Loretta Devine |
Born in Houston in 1949, actress Loretta Devine rose to fame on-stage in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls before parlaying her acclaim into a career in film and television. Her first major onscreen role came in 1987, when she was cast as... more
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Tags: Comedy Urban Comedy Religious Comedy Crime Comedy
Length: 98min
Gospel-minded playwright David E. Talbert produces, writes, and directs this urban crime comedy concerning a pair of criminals who take a group of church parishioners hostage while attempting to rob the holy house, only to find their captives slowly...
Tags: Addiction Drama Melodrama Message Movie Drama
Length: 99min
One woman's odyssey through a hellish life of sexual abuse, drug addiction, and crime is resolved in faith in this tough but inspiring drama based on a true story documented by evangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes. Michelle Jordan (Kimberly Elise) was raised...
Tags: Holiday Film Family Drama Drama Reunion Films
Length: 117min
Upon gathering together under one roof for the first time in seven years, an estranged family celebrating Christmas rediscovers long-forgotten bonds in this holiday family reuniondrama starring Delroy Lindo, Regina King, and Mekhi Phifer. ~ Jason...
Urban Legends: The Final Cut (2000)
Cast: Hart Bochner
Tags: Slasher Film Teen Movie Horror
Length: 98min
Tall tales turn into chilling reality in this sequel to the 1998 horror hit Urban Legend. Amy Mayfield (Jenny Morrison) is a film student at Alpine University who for her thesis project (which will also be her entry to a prestigious competition for...
Tags: Comedy Gay & Lesbian Films Domestic Comedy
Length: 90min
Writer/director Maurice Jamal follows up his debut feature, The Ski Trip, with this comedy about a gay man from the big city returning to his small Southern hometown. Rockmond Dunbar plays Sheldon, a New York magazine writer who has long left his...
Cast: David Strathairn Phil Alden Robinson James Horner Danny Glover
Tags: Message Movie Drama Family Drama
Length: 150min
This made-for-TV movie focuses on the grassroots efforts of a Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to combat the entrenched racism of the segregated South. The film focuses on Owen Walker (Vicellus Reon Shannon), a youth who longs to...
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg Jada Pinkett Smith LL Cool J Loretta Devine
Tags: Domestic Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: 94min
Based on the play +Dearly Departed by David Dean Bottrell and Jessie Jones (who also penned this screenplay), this new comedy from the director of Jason's Lyric looks at a family gathering after one of their clan dies of a stroke. In the midst of a...
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
Cast: Halle Berry Elmer Bernstein Martha Coolidge Klaus Maria Brandauer
Tags: Addiction Drama Drama Showbiz Drama Biopic
Length: 120min
Dorothy Dandridge was a singer, nightclub entertainer, and actress who became the first African-American woman to receive an Academy award nomination as Best Actress (for her standout performance in 1954's Carmen Jones; she lost to Grace Kelly)....
Cast: CCH Pounder
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 100min
After returning to her hometown to contemplate her troubled marriage, a woman finds renewed hope as she and the cousin with whom she was once best friends slowly reconcile their own fractured relationship. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Alfre Woodard Esther Rolle Mary Alice Al Freeman, Jr.
Tags: Americana Drama Childhood Drama Coming-of-Age Rural Drama
Length: 111min
Poet Maya Angelou made her feature directorial debut with this African-American family drama, shown theatrically but originally produced for the Showtime cable network. Unemployed single mother Loretta (Alfre Woodward) lives with her mother, Rosa Lynn...
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