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Oct. 4, 2008 11:07 PM ET (AP)
Actors: Cicely Tyson, Louis Gossett, Jr., LeVar Burton
Actors: André Benjamin, Antwan Andre Patton, Paula Patton, Terrence Howard, Faizon Love
Synopsis: OutKast duo André "Andre 3000" Benjamin and Antwan Andre "Big Boi" Patton star as two Prohibition-era performers determined to fend off the vicious gangsters currently attempting to gain a stake in the pair's lucrative club in this musical drama directed by longtime collaborator Bryan Barber and Read More
Actors: Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Boris Kodjoe, Henry Simmons
Synopsis: 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 dealing with a handful of family crises the Read More
Actors: Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Shemar Moore, Tamara Taylor, Lisa Marcos
Synopsis: A woman has to learn how to love and trust men all over again in this comedy drama. Helen McCarter (Kimberly Elise) would seem to have it all -- she's been married for 18 years to Charles (Steve Harris), and over the course of their time together, he's become one of Atlanta's most successful Read More
Actors: AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson, Eva Marie Saint, Dave Matthews
Synopsis: It's not finishing school or a traditional upbringing that causes ten-year-old Opal to learn about the world outside of her own backyard, but rather a particularly awkward-looking mutt named Winn-Dixie. Based on a novel by Kate DiCamillo, Winn-Dixie and Opal not only become privy to the eventful Read More
Actors: Angela Bassett, Peter Francis James, Cicely Tyson, Tonea Stewart, Dexter Scott King
Synopsis: Angela Bassett plays the title role in this meticulously detailed biography of pioneering civil rights activist Rosa McCauley Parks. Even as a child, Rosa stands separate from her fellow African-Americans; instead of being shipped off to a shabby public school, she is enrolled in a private Read More
Synopsis: Based on fact, the made-for-TV drama Jewel begins in 1945, a time when children afflicted with Down Syndrome were casually and cruelly dismissed as "Mongoloid Idiots." Already a mother with four healthy, normal children, 40-year-old Mississippi woman Jewel Hilburn (Farrah Fawcett) gives birth to Read More
Synopsis: Cicely Tyson guest stars as frail but feisty septugenarian Abigail Jackson, who is urged by Monica (Roma Downey) and the angels to consider moving into a posh retirement community. Terrified at "losing" his mom (even though he's got a family of his own), Abigail's pathologically dependent son Read More
Actors: Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall, Brent Jennings
Synopsis: Don Cheadle, Mekhi Phifer, and Cicely Tyson star in this drama set in the 1940s about a black man sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit and teacher who is to counsel him as he awaits execution. A Lesson Before Dying is based on a novel by Ernest J. Gaines. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Tom Skerritt, Sharon Lawrence, Charles S. Dutton, Lisa Nicole Carson, Cicely Tyson
Synopsis: A major earthquake brings the City That Never Sleeps to a screeching halt in this made-for-TV suspense drama. New York City Mayor Lincoln (Charles S. Dutton) and Fire Chief Ahearn (Tom Skerritt) are contentious political rivals forced to set aside their differences and work together when a Read More
Actors: Cicely Tyson, Queen Latifah, Blair Underwood, Mario Van Peebles, Erika Alexander
Synopsis: This four-hour miniseries is based on author Alex Haley's continuing family saga. Covering the 1920s-1970s, the story centers on Mama Flora, the matriarch of a large black family who is determined to keep her brood together and close to their God during rapidly changing and tempestuous times. Read More
Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Bill Cobbs, Natalie Cole, Bill Duke, Laurie Metcalf
Synopsis: Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist) directed this Walter Mosley script adaptation of Mosley's short story collection, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. Ex-con Socrates Fortlow (Laurence Fishburne) returns to L.A., looks for work, becomes friends with Right Burke (Bill Cobbs), is told he's too Read More
Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Vanessa Williams, Andy Garcia, Cicely Tyson
Synopsis: The white-run Mafia and the black-run numbers game meet head on with explosive impact in this period crime thriller. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) is an African-American ex-con who, after a stay in prison, returns to Harlem at the height of its renaissance before World War II. Read More
Actors: Cicely Tyson, Katherine Helmond, Michael Beach, John Bourgeois, Rae'Ven Larrymore-Kelly
Synopsis: In 1974, Cicely Tyson and director John Korty (The Ewok Adventure) worked together on the acclaimed The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (winner of nine Emmys), and they reteamed for this updating of Charles Dickens' 1843 classic, A Christmas Carol. When miserly banker Ebenita Scrooge (Tyson) is Read More
Actors: Luke Perry, Cicely Tyson, Mario Van Peebles
Synopsis: This off-beat urban anthology offers four different views of the mayhem and destruction that came from the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The first vignette "Gold Mountain," directed by Galen Yuen, centers on a struggle between a traditional-minded Chinese storekeeper and his increasingly uncontrollable Read More
Actors: Cicely Tyson, Tess Harper, Piper Laurie, James McDaniel, Penny Johnson
Synopsis: In this heartwarming drama, a dying widow "abducts" a trio of women suffering from Alzheimer's disease and embarks upon a journey to the title Texas town in order to fulfill her lifelong fantasy of seeing the ocean. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Edward Furlong, Nell Carter
Synopsis: Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. After the death of his parents, Collin Fenwick (Edward Furlong) finds himself living in a small town with two of his aunts, Dolly (Piper Laurie Read More
Actors: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Simon Callow, Seth Gilliam
Synopsis: Best known for their historical epics that examine class and social issues in British life through a thick lens of tasteful production design and good manners, director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant set their sights on an American protagonist for a change with Jefferson in Paris. As the Read More
Actors: Grant Show, Lori Loughlin, Cicely Tyson, Cari Shayne, George Wendt
Synopsis: Filmed on location in South Carolina, The Price of Heaven represents one of the rare forays into the realm of made-for-TV movies by celebrated director Peter Bogdanovich. The story takes place in the early 1950s, as Korean war hero Jerry Shand (Grant Show) returns to his Southern hometown. Read More
Actors: Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Cicely Tyson
Synopsis: Originally a television mini-series, this drama chronicles the painful and lively reminiscences of a 100 year old woman. Much of the story centers on her tumultuous marriage to a Civil War vet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner, Kate Vernon, Cicely Tyson, Michael Boatman
Synopsis: Mimi Leder, director of several 1990s action-adventure flicks directed this made-for-television drama. Melissa Gilbert-Boxleitner stars as Marion Ravinel, a wife who conspires to kill her husband with the aide of his ex-lover. The film is based on the story featured in several movies, including Diabolique Read More
Actors: Michele Lee, James Farentino, John Spencer, Lee Garlington, Anndi McAfee
Synopsis: Based on a true story, once again we have a tale of a battered homemaker who seeks help from the deaf ear of bureaucracy when she feels that she must protect herself and her children from her abusive husband. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Gregory Harrison, Cicely Tyson
Synopsis: A woman loses her son and brother in a mysterious accident which yielded no bodies. Understandably distraught, she is hardly prepared to confront her "dead" brother, now hale and hearty. But the man insists that he's never seen her before. Together with her husband, our heroine investigates this Read More
Actors: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson, Nick Searcy
Synopsis: A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressed housewife with a habit of drowning her sorrows in candy bars. Her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain) Read More
Actors: Trent Cameron
Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama--Sammy Davis, Jr.'s last--stars Trent Cameron as a young orphan who must fight against social workers in order to remain with his adoptive father, a widowed jazzman. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Blair Underwood, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Margaret Avery
Synopsis: Set during the Watts riots of the mid-'60s, the made-for-cable Heat Wave follows the story of Los Angeles Times reporter Robert Richardson (Blair Underwood), who was the only journalist on staff able to cover the story, since White reporters were unable to gain access to the area and the rioters. Read More
Actors: Oprah Winfrey, Jackée, Cicely Tyson, Robin Givens
Synopsis: Based on the novel by Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place was produced by and stars Oprah Winfrey. The film concerns a variety of women who live in the housing project located on Brewster Place, and tells about their lives as they struggle in the face of racism, poverty, and troublesome Read More
Synopsis: The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this ecologically conscientious made-for-TV disaster film. It all begins when the owners of Citichem order the plant manager to enact dangerous cost cuts that compromise the safety of Read More
Actors: Martin Sheen
Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-television Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story is the tale of a Washington, DC-based Vietnam veteran (Martin Sheen) who fights for America's homeless by staging hunger strikes and battling with various government agencies, eventually winning the attention of Read More
Actors: James Brolin, Veronica Cartwright, Donna Mills, Cicely Tyson
Synopsis: Considering his later well-publicized involvement in "l'affaire Heidi Fleiss," Ivan Nagy was ideally suited to direct the-made-for TV Encounters in the Night. Even more prescient so far as Nagy is concerned is the film's original title: Intimate Encounters. Donna Mills plays an attractive young Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a disturbed teenager turns to arson in order to vent his anger and frustration over his parent's upcoming divorce. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Relying more on acting and attitude than makeup, Louis Gossett Jr. plays a cantankerous, fiercely independent old man in Benny's Place. A longtime employee of a steel mill, Gossett has set up his own tool repair operation within the mill, running things nicely, thank you, without the interference Read More
Actors: Ed Asner, Cicely Tyson
Synopsis: When the story of the real-life Marva Collins was nationally telecast on 60 Minutes in 1979, residents of Chicago had been intimately familiar with the accomplishments of Ms. Collins for at least four years. After 14 years of teaching in Chicago's dead-end public school system, Marva used $5000 of Read More
Actors: Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson, Alphonso Alexander, Kia Cooper, Edwin de Leon
Synopsis: It's The African Queen meets Richard Pryor in this schmaltzy and salty attempt by Pryor to appeal to the family crowd. Pryor plays Joe Braxton, an inept burglar whose parole officer Donald (Robert Christian) wants to help out. Knowing that Joe is an excellent mechanic, he refers him to Vivian Read More
Actors: Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Sylvia Kristel, George Kennedy
Synopsis: The fourth Airport film may be the silliest of them all, as George Kennedy returns, this time co-piloting with Alain Delon. The plane is on its way to the Moscow Olympics, has a bomb on board, and gets fired upon with missiles that necessitate flying upside-down. A look at the cast list resembles Read More
Actors: Cicely Tyson, Talking Heads
Synopsis: This 1979 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Cicely Tyson and features musical guest Talking Heads. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: King: The Martin Luther King Story originated as a three-part miniseries, first telecast February 12, 13 and 14, 1978. Paul Winfield is starred as Martin Luther King, with Cicely Tyson as Coretta Scott King. The film covers the years 1954 through 1968, taking Rev. King from his first peaceful Read More
Actors: Orson Welles
Synopsis: The made-for-TV A Woman Called Moses stars Cicely Tyson as real-life escaped slave Harriet Tubman. A the risk of recapture, Tubman helped organize the underground railroad, which enabled hundreds of enslaved African Americans to make their way to the freedom of the Northern states. Adding to the Read More
Actors: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Larry B. Scott, Helen Martin, Glynn E. Turman
Synopsis: Adapted from the Alice Childress book, Ralph Nelson's film stars Larry B. Scott as Benjie, a smart but disaffected ghetto teen who becomes a drug addict. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Ben Vereen
Synopsis: This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the highest-rated television programs in broadcasting history. Based on the best-selling novel by author Alex Haley, Roots chronicles the progress of Haley's own family across many Read More
Synopsis: This made-for-TV biographical film chronicles the early life of Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph (Cicely Tyson) as she struggles to overcome a childhood bout of polio and realize her Olympic ambitions. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This biopic chronicles the courage of African-American athlete Wilma Rudolph, who overcame crippling polio to win three gold medals in track during the 1960 Olympics in Rome. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner, Sesiliya Tayson, Cicely Tyson, Robert Morley
Synopsis: The first official co-production between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Blue Bird was the third screen adaptation of the children's story by Maurice Maeterlinck about a pair of children, Tyltyl (Todd Lookinland) and Mytyl (Patsy Kensit), who leave home to search for the Blue Bird of Read More
Synopsis: Originally telecast September 14, 1976, as a CBS "General Electric Theater" special, Just an Old Sweet Song was the first of three pilots for Down Home, a proposed TV series created by filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. Robert Hooks and Cicely Tyson star as Nate and Priscilla Simmons, the patriarch and Read More
Actors: Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett, Jr., Glynn E. Turman, Roger E. Mosley
Synopsis: River Niger is a Tony Award-winning play turned to a movie. It features James Earl Jones as a house-painter/poet who struggles to support his cancer-plagued wife (Cicely Tyson). This is a realistic portrayal of the difficulties encountered in the poverty-stricken ghetto. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Cicely Tyson, Barbara Chaney, Richard Dysart, Katherine Helmond, Michael Murphy
Synopsis: Cicely Tyson ages from 19 to 110 in the role of Jane Pittman, a fictional African-American woman whose life began in slavery and ended at the inception of the Civil Rights Movement. Northern journalist Quentin Lerner (Michael Murphy) travels to the racially polarized south of 1962 to interview Ms. Read More
Actors: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal
Synopsis: Martin Ritt's big-screen adaptation of William H. Armstrong's Newberry Award winning novel, Sounder stars Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, and Kevin Hooks as a black family struggling through life in depression-era Louisiana. The Morgan family is poor, but close. Young son David (Hooks) enjoys hunting Read More
Synopsis: The emergency staff of Rampart Hospital is kept extra-busy this evening as a plane crashes into a tree, a child overdoses on phenobarbital, and a burglar has a heart attack. In addition, Dr. Early (Robert Fuller) must deal with a nervous hypochondriac and a football player who has been Read More
Synopsis: Sally Field and Robert Pratt star as newlyweds Jane and L.T. in this feature-length pilot for an unsold weekly series. Born into wealth, Jane is quite unprepared for her life with farm-bred medical student L.T., especially when the couple move into what may be the tiniest apartment in the least Read More
Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Pernell Roberts
Synopsis: With no pressing assignments at hand, Phelps and Barney head to the Caribbean for a long-overdue vacation. Falling in love with gorgeous artist Alma Ross (Cicely Tyson), Barney finds himself framed for the murder of Alma's ex-boyfriend. The instigator of the frame-up is crooked police chief Manuel Read More
Synopsis: The FBI suspects a case of jury tampering when, after the acquittal of notorious mob figure, juror Steven Harber (Robert Hooks) suddenly becomes conspicuously wealthy. Eventually, Harber's conscience kicks in, but it may already be too late. Not only is Harber being shaken down by a blackmailer Read More
Synopsis: Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) issues an A.P.B. for Ralph Stuart (Jeffrey Hunter), a Red agent wanted for murder and the theft of a secret rocket fuel formula. Meanwhile, the wounded fugitive hides out in the home of Allen Harmon (Al Freeman Jr.), whose life Stuart saved in Vietnam. Torn Read More
Actors: Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Laurinda Barrett, Stacy Keach, Chuck McCann
Synopsis: Based on the novel by Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter stars Alan Arkin as John Singer, who is deaf. Singer moves from a small town in order to be close to his institutionalized friend Antonapoulos (Chuck McCann), who is deaf and mentally impaired. Singer rents a room with a family Read More
Actors: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford
Synopsis: The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story concerns the residents of a once-posh hotel in Haiti and the fate of the country's people under the despotic dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) is the Read More
Actors: Sammy Davis, Jr., Louis Armstrong, Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson, Frank Sinatra, Jr., Peter Lawford
Synopsis: A star-studded cast invigorates this film of a jazz trumpeter (Sammy Davis Jr.) who experiences both the prejudices of the music industry and terrible guilt following the traffic accident that killed his family, a tragedy he feels personally responsible for. Co-stars include several giants of jazz Read More
Synopsis: Outspoken American Olympic star Elroy Browne (Ivan Dixon) has defected to China. Although the U.S. government would sooner wash their hands of the troublesome Browne, it is forced to go through the motions of persuading him to return to America. Agents Kelly and Scott are given the assignment to Read More
Actors: Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Luther Adler, Joby Baker
Synopsis: In danger of losing his job, TV-producer David Wayne hopes to cook up a real ratings winner by building a network special around the life and work of elderly doctor Paul Muni. For the past 45 years, the iconoclastic Muni has run a free clinic in the slums of Brooklyn. Muni has no time for Read More
Actors: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Sr., Gloria Grahame
Synopsis: Harry Belafonte was both producer and star of this hard-edged film noir crime drama. Dave Burke (Ed Begley, Sr.) is an ex-cop who has been kicked off the force for refusing to inform on his colleagues to the State Crime Committee. Short on money, the former policeman jumps to the other side Read More
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