Biography: Taraji P. Henson |
Washington, D.C., native Taraji P. Henson didn't always know that her smoldering charisma and beautiful face would make her a professional actress. On the contrary, she originally studied electrical engineering when she enrolled at North Carolina... more
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Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009)
Tags: Comedy Drama Romantic Drama Family Drama
Length: 113min
A hard-living nightclub singer discovers the importance of family with the help of a handsome Mexican immigrant in this inspirational comedy drama from writer/director Tyler Perry. When pistol-packing granny Madea (Perry) awakens to the sound of her...
Cast: Bill Duke
Tags: Drama Religious Drama Marriage Drama
Length: 99min
Director Bill Duke steps behind the camera for this adaptation of the T.D. Jakes novel concerning a newly married couple that finds their union threatened by pressures involving faith, family, and finances. As the couple exchanges their vows, the...
Cast: Forest Whitaker Isaiah Washington
Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: min
Tim Story directs this sports drama based on real events, with Forest Whitaker starring as Al Collins, a high-school basketball coach who leads a ragtag team to win the state finals just a year after the Katrina disaster in this Weinstein Co....
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Cast: Brad Pitt David Fincher Kathleen Kennedy Julia Ormond Cate Blanchett Frank Marshall Greg Cannom
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 167min
David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just...
Cast: Cedric the Entertainer Martin Sheen
Tags: Period Film Biopic Comedy Drama
Length: 118min
Don Cheadle stars as outspoken ex-convict and iconic radio personality Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene in a powerful iopic detailing the life and career of a media figure whose voice instilled the black community with hope during the turbulent 1960s....
Cast: John Singleton Terrence Howard Isaac Hayes Taryn Manning
Tags: Musical Drama Drama Urban Drama
Length: 114min
One man's struggle to rise above his circumstances prompts him to try a career in music in this acclaimed drama from writer and director Craig Brewer. Djay (Terrence Howard) is a low-level pimp and drug dealer who scraped together a living in the...
Cast: Mo'nique
Tags: Reunion Films Urban Comedy Comedy
Length: 100min
Blood may be thicker than water, but it doesn't hold a candle to hairspray, as we learn in this urban comedy. Angela (Kellita Smith) is a successful hairdresser who operates her own salon based in Los Angeles. One day, Angela gets an unexpected visit...
Cast: Snoop Dogg Ving Rhames
Tags: Drama Coming-of-Age Urban Drama
Length: 129min
Ten years later, writer and director John Singleton returns to the South Central Los Angeles neighborhoods of his debut film Boyz 'N the Hood (1991). Tyrese Gibson stars as Jody, a jobless 20-year-old African-American man who has fathered two children...
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