Biography: Lynn Whitfield |
African American leading lady Lynn Whitfield made her film bow in 1983's Dr. Detroit. Three years later, the Louisiana born and bred Whitfield played the title character in the fact-based TV movie Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI, the story of the first black... more
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Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
Tags: Comedy Drama Melodrama Family Drama Urban Comedy Reunion Films Urban Drama
Length: 107min
Actor and playwright Tyler Perry returns as Madea, a brash but loving African-American grandmother with her own way of doing things in this screen adaptation of his popular stage comedy drama. Madea has her work cut out for her when she finds herself...
Tags: Comedy Drama Coming-of-Age Ensemble Film
Length: 95min
Based on the popular series of children's books by Deborah Gregory, the made-for-cable The Cheetah Girls is all about four teenage girlfriends, all from different ethnic and economic backgrounds, all attending a Manhattan high school specializing in...
Cast: Chris Rock
Tags: Political Satire Comedy
Length: 95min
Can a high-attitude African-American politician who says what he thinks stand a chance in a presidential campaign? Mays Gilliam (Chris Rock) is a straight-talking alderman representing a inner-city neighborhood in Washington, D.C. In the midst of a...
Cast: Jamie Foxx
Tags: Drama Prison Film Biopic
Length: 95min
Jamie Foxx once again brilliantly demonstrates his acting chops as Stan "Tookie" Williams, the South Central Los Angeles native who, at the age of 17, co-founded the infamous Crips street gang. If one is to believe the script of this made-for-cable...
Cast: Lynn Whitfield Linda Hamilton Bruce Greenwood
Tags: Melodrama Political Drama Drama
Length: 91min
Inspired by a true story (the events of which led to the Sipes vs. McGhee trial, in which the United States Supreme Court declared that covenants used to segregate neighborhoods were unconstitutional), The Color of Courage concerns Mac McGhee (Roger...
Length: 8min
A little girl with a newborn baby brother longs to have a child of her own, but wonders if she's ready for motherhood in this animated short narrated by Lynn Whitfield. Elizabeti's brother is so huggable and kissable that the young girl can't help but...
Tags: Drama Political Drama Docudrama
Length: 90min
A civil rights activist comes to the defense of an African-American marine who was convicted of rape, but is widely believed to be innocent. ~ All Movie Guide
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson
Tags: Period Film Melodrama Drama Childhood Drama
Length: 109min
A young girl learns some difficult lessons about truth, love, and fidelity in this critically-acclaimed Southern gothic drama. Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett) is a ten-year-old girl whose father Louis (Samuel L. Jackson) is a successful and well-liked...
Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding (1998)
Cast: Halle Berry Charles Burnett Oprah Winfrey
Tags: Family Drama Drama Period Film
Length: 240min
This two-part TV miniseries, adapted from Dorothy West's novel The Wedding, takes a look at mid-century issues of race and class in well-to-do black society. On Martha's Vineyard in 1953, debutante Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) stirs discord in her...
Cast: Joe Pesci Danny Glover Rosanna Arquette
Tags: Road Movie Adventure Comedy Comedy
Length: 94min
Just how much trouble can two guys get into while trying to catch some fish? Joe Waters (Joe Pesci) and Gus Green (Danny Glover) are two guys from New Jersey who've known each other since childhood; they've always been friends, and they've always been...
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