Biography: Mary Alice |
Born in Mississippi, Mary Alice is a prolific actress on stage and television who is underutilized in feature films. She got her start with the Negro Ensemble Company and worked off-Broadway for several years. Her theater credits include The Vagina... more
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Cast: Marisa Berenson Maggie Gyllenhaal
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 90min
Several stalwarts of the New York independent film scene make appearances in this tale of a creatively frustrated photographer and his search through the streets of Manhattan for ten mysterious snapshots which may hold the key to continued success....
What I Want My Words to Do to You (2002)
Cast: Glenn Close Rosie Perez
Tags: Biography Law & Crime Culture & Society Language & Literature Sociology Literary Studies
Length: 78min
The documentary What I Want My Words to Do to You offers a look at some actual rehabilitation at a women's maximum security prison. Directors Judith Katz, Madeleine Gavin, and Gary Sunshine used high-definition video cameras to capture an emotional...
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999)
Cast: Mary Alice
Tags: Comedy Drama Family Drama
Length: 119min
In Catfish In Black Bean Sauce, Paul Winfield and Mary Alice play an African-American couple who in the 1970's adopted two Vietnamese children, a brother and sister. 20 years on, the two kids have grown to adulthood; Dwayne (Chi Muoi Lo) has absorbed...
Cast: Alfre Woodard Al Freeman, Jr. Esther Rolle
Tags: Rural Drama Coming-of-Age Childhood Drama Drama Americana
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...
Cast: Carl Franklin
Tags: Drama
Length: 156min
Director Carl Franklin's follow-up to his indie hit One False Move was this made-for-cable miniseries about an extended African-American family and the weekend that changes their lives irrevocably. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
Cast: Helen Shaver
Tags: Reunion Films Drama Family Drama
Length: 95min
In this family drama, Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) is a lawyer who pays a visit to her hometown in the Georgia farm country when her mother (Mary Alice), a well-regarded local storyteller, dies. Mother's death has brought the family together for the...
The Road to Freedom: The Vernon Johns Story (1994)
Cast: James Earl Jones Clifton James
Length: 90min
The Vernon Johns Story is the inspirational saga of the man who preceded Martin Luther King Jr. as pastor of a Montgomery, Alabama Baptist Church. Described as "one of God's most brilliant preachers," Johns campaigned tirelessly for Civil Rights long...
Tags: Period Film Drama
Length: 88min
An African-American busdriver befriends a white girl in this sensitive drama set in 1970 during the height of the Vietnam-War protests. Horace Jones, the bus driver, is frustrated that he couldn't keep his son Willie from enlisting in the military....
The Color of Friendship (1981)
Length: 46min
This ABC Afterschool Special tackles the issue of racial harmony, which was still a "hot potato" on children's teleivision even as late as 1981. Chris Barnes is cast as David Bellinger, a white teenager who, like most of his schoolmates, is none too...
Cast: Charles Burnett
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 105min
African-American drifter Danny Glover shows up at the LA doorstep of his old pal Paul Butler. In the spirit of auld lang syne, Butler takes Glover in, though his wife (Mary Alice) is not happy with this intrusion. She already has enough on her hands...
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