Lynn Whitfield

Head of State (2003)

Cast: Chris Rock Dylan Baker Lynn Whitfield Bernie Mac Keith David   

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...

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The Cheetah Girls (2003)

Cast: Lynn Whitfield Whitney Houston Oz Scott Raven Symone Sabrina Bryan   

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...

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Redemption (2003)

Cast: Jamie Foxx Vondie Curtis-Hall Lynn Whitfield CCH Pounder Brenda Bazinet   

Tags: Biopic Prison Film Drama 

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...

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Dangerous Evidence (1999)

Cast: Lynn Whitfield Sturla Gunnarsson   

Tags: Docudrama Political Drama Drama 

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

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Elizabeti's Doll (2000)

Cast: Lynn Whitfield   

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...

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Eve's Bayou (1997)

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson Lynn Whitfield Diahann Carroll Vondie Curtis-Hall Meagan Good   

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...

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Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding (1998)

Cast: Charles Burnett Halle Berry Oprah Winfrey Lynn Whitfield Marianne Jean-Baptiste   

Tags: Period Film Drama Family Drama 

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...

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The Color of Courage (1998)

Cast: Bruce Greenwood Linda Hamilton Lynn Whitfield David Andrews Lee Rose   

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...

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Gone Fishin' (1997)

Cast: Danny Glover Joe Pesci Lynn Whitfield Rosanna Arquette Carol Kane   

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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