Jenifer LewisFilmography

Not Easily Broken

Actors: Morris Chestnut, Taraji P. Henson, Maeve Quinlan, Jenifer Lewis, Kevin Hart, Wood Harris, Eddie Cibrian

Synopsis: 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 minister lays a cord around them while uttering the Read More

Dirty Laundry

Actors: Rockmond Dunbar, Loretta Devine, Jenifer Lewis, Terri J. Vaughn, Sommore

Synopsis: Writer/director Maurice Jamal follows up his debut feature, The Ski Trip, with this comedy about a gay man from the big city returning to his small Southern hometown. Rockmond Dunbar plays Sheldon, a New York magazine writer who has long left his roots behind. When he begrudgingly heads back to Read More

Redrum

Actors: Jill Marie Jones, Kenny Young, Joe Torry, Jenifer Lewis, Terri J. Vaughn

Synopsis: The couple that slays together stays together in this satirical suspense comedy about a bored husband and wife who accidentally discover that they're natural born killers. Brian and Tanya Diggs have always been the timid couple that is too self-conscious to cut loose and have fun. When therapy Read More

Cars

Actors: Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: A pedal-to-the-metal race car determined to prove his worth on the tracks discovers that life isn't always about crossing the finish line first in Toy Story director John Lasseter's mechanically minded tale of friendship and loyalty. Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) may be just a rookie Read More

Strong Medicine: Season 06

Actors: Christopher Marquette, Tamera Mowry, Nestor Carbonell, Josh Coxx, Rosa Blasi, Rick Schroder, Jenifer Lewis

Shark Tale

Actors: Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Oceanic wise guys meet up with a small fish who has a big attitude in this computer-animated comedy. Don Lino (voice of Robert De Niro) is the patriarch of a family of sharks who lord over a bustling aquatic community based along a massive underwater reef. Don Lino has two sons, Frankie (voice of Michael Imperioli Read More

The Cookout

Actors: Danny Glover, Jenifer Lewis, Ja Rule, Tim Meadows, Storm P, Meagan Good

Synopsis: When Todd Anderson (Storm P) signs a 30-million-dollar contract with the New Jersey Nets after being named the number one NBA draft pick of the year, his mother (Jenifer Lewis) vows to prevent her son from forgetting his roots. Not used to balancing his new life with his old, Todd mistakenly Read More

Nora's Hair Salon

Actors: Jenifer Lewis, Tamala Jones, Tatyana Ali

Synopsis: Hot gossip and cool hairdos sit side-by-side in this independent comedy-drama. Nora (Jenifer Lewis) is the owner of her own hair salon in an African-American community in Los Angeles, and she watches over her "family" of employees, as well as an assortment of friends, relatives, and regular Read More

Strong Medicine: Season 05

Actors: Philip Casnoff, Nestor Carbonell, Rosa Blasi, Patricia Richardson, Jenifer Lewis, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis:
Joining the cast of the Lifetime network doctor series Strong Medicine during its fifth season is Tamera Mowry as Dr. Kayla Thornton, new first-year resident at Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Women's Health Clinic. Though raised in a rural community, Kayla has returned to her home town of Read More

Strong Medicine: Season 04

Actors: Rosa Blasi, Patricia Richardson, Jenifer Lewis, Josh Coxx, Brennan Elliott, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis: The fourth season of the feminist-oriented doctor series Strong Medicine begins with an immediate followup to the previous season's cliffhanger ending. As the firefighter boyfriend of the Rittenhouse Clinic's director Dr. Lu Delgado (Rose Blasi) hovers between life and death after being shot by Read More

Strong Medicine: Season 03

Actors: Rosa Blasi, Jenifer Lewis, Patricia Richardson, Josh Coxx, Janine Turner, Brennan Elliott, Philip Casnoff, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis: Season Three of "Strong Medicine" marks the departure of series regular Janine Turner as Dr. Dana Stone, who with her earthier counterpart Dr. Lu Delgado (Rose Blasi) has since the outset of the series been in charge of the Rittenhouse Women's Health Clinic in Philadelphia. Having resumed her Read More

The Brothers

Actors: Morris Chestnut, D.L. Hughley, Bill Bellamy, Shemar Moore, Gabrielle Union

Synopsis: Four successful men find themselves easing into long-term relationships, but they're not all that comfortable about it, in this intelligent comedy-drama. Terry (Shemar Moore), Jackson (Morris Chestnut), Brian (Bill Bellamy), and Derrick (D.L. Hughley) are four close friends who get together once a Read More

Strong Medicine: Season 02

Actors: Rosa Blasi, Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Josh Coxx, Brennan Elliott, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis: The second season of Lifetime's feminist medical series Strong Medicine begins with the episode "Donors", which includes a characteristic ethical clash between Rittenhouse Women's Health Clinic directors Dr. Lu Delgado (Rose Blasi) and Dr. Dana Stone (Janine Turner) over treatement of a girl who Read More

Dancing in September

Actors: James Avery, Nicole Ari Parker, Michael Cavanaugh, Marcia Cross, Jenifer Lewis, Vicellous Shannon, Jay Underwood, Isaiah Washington, Malinda Williams

Synopsis: Reggie Rock Bythewood makes his directorial debut with this sharp comedy-drama about love, compromise, and TV. The film opens with the parallel childhoods of Tomasina "Tommy" Crawford (Nicole Ari Parker) and George Washington (Isaiah Washington). Both were utterly shaped by television -- watching Roots Read More

Strong Medicine: Season 01

Actors: Rosa Blasi, Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Josh Coxx, Brennan Elliott, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis: The female-centric medical series Strong Medicine launches its first season as Dr. Lydia Emerson, played by series cocreator Whoopi Goldberg) somewhat forcibly negotiates a merger between the financially strapped South Philadelphia storefront clinic run by the feisty and outspoken Dr. Lu Delgado Read More

Little Richard

Actors: Leon, Jenifer Lewis, Carl Lumbly, Tamala Jones, Mel Jackson

Synopsis: Robert Townsend directs this biopic on the life of one of the great early rock & roll entertainers -- Little Richard (played by Leon). The film charts Richard's rise from his humble origins in Macon, Georgia, to his chart-topping success to his much-reported return to the Church. ~ Jonathan Crow Read More

The PJs [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Loretta Devine, James Black, Michael Paul Chan, Ja'net DuBois

Jackie's Back

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Jenifer Lewis, Tim Curry, TV Blake, Tangie Ambrose, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: Soul diva Jackie Washington is determined to hit the comeback trail but seems to be having trouble finding the on-ramp in the mock-documentary comedy Jackie's Back. Jackie (played by Jenifer Lewis) was a Rhythm and Blues singer who had a few late '60's and early 70's hits, including "Yield" and Read More

The Mighty

Actors: Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin, Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: In the tradition of My Left Foot (1989), Peter Chelsom directed this emotional drama of outcasts, adapted from the Rodman Philbrick's popular young-adult novel Freak the Mighty. Although burly, slow-paced eight-grader Maxwell Kane (Elden Hensen), who narrates, is learning disabled, he Read More

Touched By an Angel: Amazing Grace, Part 1

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, Tess (Della Reese) pays a visit to the Greene family, the protagonists of the Touched by an Angel spinoff series Promised Land. She informs Joshua Greene (Austin O'Brien) that God has reserved a special purpose for him, specifically act as the "eyes" for Read More

Touched By an Angel: Amazing Grace, Part 2

Synopsis: Originally an episode of the Touched by an Angel spinoff Promised Land, this is the conclusion of a two-part story begun on Angel (and as such is included in the current Angel syndication package. Having been chosen to act as the "eyes" for temporarily inded angel Monica (Roma Downey), young Read More

The Preacher's Wife

Actors: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney Vance, Gregory Hines, Justin Pierre Edmund

Synopsis: An angel wonders if love can be Heaven on Earth in this family-themed romantic fantasy. Rev. Henry Biggs (Courtney B. Vance) is the pastor of a struggling Baptist church in a poor section of New York City. Biggs is devoted to serving his flock and his community, but things are not easy; membership Read More

Girl 6

Actors: Theresa Randle, Isaiah Washington, Spike Lee, Jenifer Lewis, Debi Mazar

Synopsis: Spike Lee directed this comedy-drama about a woman who falls into a career in phone sex. An African-American woman (Theresa Randle) who aspires to a career as an actress endures a number of dispiriting jobs (handing out leaflets and working as a coat check girl) before reaching the end of her rope Read More

Dead Presidents

Actors: Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, N'Bushe Wright, Freddy Rodriguez

Synopsis: Albert Hughes and his brother Allen Hughes followed their striking debut Menace II Society with this ambitious look at the social and political lives of the African-American community in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate) is a young man coming of age in the Bronx in 1968. Read More

Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan

Panther

Actors: Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, Joe Don Baker, Courtney Vance, Tyrin Turner

Synopsis: This controversial political drama semi-fictionalizes the history of the radical Black Panther Party, an African-American organization that polarized America from 1966-70. Huey Newton (Marcus Chong) and Bobby Seale (Courtney B. Vance) are a pair of Oakland, California, men who form a new political Read More

Friends: The One with the Thumb

Synopsis: Chandler's (Matthew Perry) friends have issues with his smoking habit, which has resurfaced after a traumatic experience. Monica's new boyfriend, Alan (Geoffrey Lower), is popular with everyone -- except Monica (Courteney Cox). And try as she might, Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) can't divest herself of a Read More

Corrina, Corrina

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Ray Liotta, Tina Majorino, Wendy Crewson, Larry Miller, Erica Yohn

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama set in the late 1950s, Manny Singer (Ray Liotta) is a songwriter who makes his living penning jingles for radio and television commercials. Manny's wife has recently died, leaving him an emotionally broken man; Manny buries himself in his work rather than deal with his grief. Read More

Renaissance Man

Actors: Danny DeVito, Gregory Hines, James Remar, Cliff Robertson, Lillo Brancato Jr.

Synopsis: Penny Marshall's feel-good comedy, invoking parts of Dead Poet's Society, Sister Act, and Private Benjamin, features Danny DeVito as Bill Rago, a divorced advertising man who is fired from his job. During an appointment at the unemployment office, a counselor finds him a job as a civilian Read More

Shake, Rattle & Rock!

Actors: Renée Zellweger

Synopsis: Shake, Rattle & Rock follows the exploits of 1950s disenfranchised teens Susan (Renee Zellweger), Cookie (Patricia Childress), and Tony (Max Perlich) who find their calling when they start a hot rock & roll band at a time in America when rock was considered the devil's music. Despite the Read More

Deconstructing Sarah

Actors: Sheila Kelley, Rachel Ticotin

Synopsis: A friend's determination to uncover the truth is the basis for the made-for television drama. Sheila Kelley stars as Sarah Vincent, a woman who leads a bizarre double-life as a woman in business by day, and a sleazy bar-hopper by night. After Sarah is mysteriously killed, her best friend Elizabeth Read More

A Different World: A Rock, a River, a Lena

Synopsis: Lena Horne (playing herself, of course) arrives at Hillman to dedicate a scholarship in her grandmother's name. In honor of Ms Hornes' visit, Whitley organizes a musical testimonial to the singer--haughtily refusing to let Mr. Gaines (Lou Myers) cater the affair because he isn't "classy" enough. Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: 'Twas the Night Before Christening

Synopsis: Vivian (Daphne Maxwell Reid) digs a rather sizable hole for herself when she promises both of her sisters that each will named as baby Nicky's godmother. Meanwhile, Will (Will Smith), not wanting to be outclassed by his cousins' expensive christening gifts, rashly promises that the singing group Read More

What's Love Got to Do with It?

Actors: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Jenifer Lewis, Phyllis Stickney

Synopsis: What's Love Got to Do With It? is the filmed biography of R&B/pop singer Tina Turner (Angela Bassett), documenting her efforts to break away from her abusive husband Ike (Laurence Fishburne). After a few scenes detailing Tina's life as a young singer in Nutbush, TN, she's discovered by Ike Turner Read More

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Barnard Hughes, Mary Wickes, James Coburn, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: In the sequel to the hit comedy Sister Act, Whoopie Goldberg reprises her role of Deloris Van Cartier, a Las Vegas entertainer who hid out with in a convent of nuns to avoid a nasty bunch of gangsters. In Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Deloris is persuaded to return to the convent by the Mother Read More

Undercover Blues

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, Fiona Shaw, Stanley Tucci, Larry Miller

Synopsis: Nick and Nora Charles are updated to a touchy-feely couple of the 1990s who take a break from the action to raise their eleven-month-old child. Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid star as Jane and Jeff Blue, two CIA super-agents who have abandoned the daily grind to devote quality time to their baby Read More

A Different World: Great X-Pectations

Synopsis: Dean Davenport (Jenifer Lewis) assigns her students to write a hypothetical conversation between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Unfortunately, Terrell (Patrick Y. Malone) lowers the level of the assignment several degrees when, as a result of a previous run-in with a gang of punks, he brings a Read More

The Meteor Man

Actors: Robert Townsend, Marla Gibbs, Eddie Griffin, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones

Synopsis: Robert Townsend's superhero action comedy underwent much tinkering during post-production, employing four editors to whip the film into shape. Townsend wrote, directed, and produced this urban fable and also stars as Jefferson Reed, a meek substitute teacher in an inner-city neighborhood dominated Read More

Poetic Justice

Actors: Billy Zane, Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Regina King, Joe Torry, Tyra Ferrell

Synopsis: R&B star Janet Jackson made an impressive film debut in Poetic Justice as Justice, a hairdresser at a small salon in South Central Los Angeles. Justice uses her poetry to deal with her grief after her boyfriend is killed in a shooting incident at a drive-in. Hired to work at a hair stylists' event Read More

Sister Act

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes

Synopsis: A sleeper hit that received a lukewarm reception from critics but was a success with audiences, Sister Act (1992) was star Whoopi Golberg's first bona fide smash after her Oscar victory for Ghost (1990). Goldberg stars as Deloris Van Cartier, a Reno lounge singer who accidentally witnesses a Read More

A Different World: Interior Desecration

Synopsis: Now that Ron (Darryl M. Bell) and Freddie (Cree Summer) are aware of their mutual attraction, things get dicey for Ron when Freddie continues seeing Shazza (Gary Dourdan)--and for Kim (Charnele Brown),who feels that Freddie is responsible when a disconsolate Ron moves in with newlyweds Whitley Read More

Frozen Assets

Actors: Shelley Long, Corbin Bernsen, Larry Miller, Dody Goodman, Gerritt Graham, Matt Clark

Synopsis: A rising young executive is ecstatic to learn that he is to be acting president at the small-town bank his company just purchased until he gets there and realizes that it is a sperm bank. This base little comedy centers on his attempts to make the place profitable and also chronicles the growing Read More

A Different World: Somebody Say Ho!

Synopsis: New student Charmaine (Karen Malina White) is so overbearing in Dwayne's statistics class that someone slaps a sign on her back reading "Digit Ho." Convinced that punkish Terrell Walker (Patrick Y. Malone) is the guilty party, Charmaine files a formal complaint against him. Taking on the task of Read More

A Different World: Original Teacher

Synopsis: Signing on with Freddie's new mentorship program for the teenagers at Juvenile Hall, Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison)i tries to mediate between youthful parolees Billy (Chris Kelly) and Michael (Chris Smith, whose friendship has been torn asunder by gang-related violence. Dwayne's efforts to patch up the Read More

A Different World: The Little Mister

Synopsis: After making a few stupidly sexist remarks at a Halloween party, Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) has a dream in which all the candidates in the 1992 Presidential race are female: Georgia Mush, Rose Godot, et. al. In the episode's most memorable (and, as it turns out, most forward-looking) sequence Read More

A Different World: Honeymoon in L.A., Part 1

Synopsis: Season Six of A Different World opens with the first episode of a two-part story, in which newlyweds Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) and Whitley (Jasmine Guy) regale their friends with their recollection of the chaotic events surrounding their honeymoon. No sooner has the couple set foot in Los Angeles Read More

A Different World: Honeymoon in L.A., Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of A Different World's two-part Season Six opener, Whitley (Jasmine Guy and Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) continue to recall their chaotic honeymoon in riot-torn Los Angeles. At the same time, the couple's friends react to the violence (inspired by the infamous Rodney King verdict) in Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Daddy'

Synopsis: This TV movie's original title was Danielle Steel's Daddy, which was either an invitation or a warning depending upon one's outlook. The usual Steel formula of a big city high-roller finding love in the hinterlands is followed religiously. Patrick Duffy, a chauvinistic advertising man coming off Read More

Murphy Brown: Uh-Oh, Part 2

Synopsis: Season Four of Murphy Brown picks up where Season Three left off, as investigative journalist Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) comes to grips with the likelihood that she is pregnant. The staff of "FYI" reacts with a mixture of horror and dismay when Murphy breaks the news--but that's nothing Read More

A Different World: Tales From the Exam Zone

Synopsis: In this spoof of The Twilight Zone, Walter (Sinbad) uses his best Rod Serling voice to narrate the misadventures of his friends when they take on their mid-terms and enter. . ."The Exam Zone." For starters, Whitley (Jasmine Guy) has a devil of a time finding a peaceful, quiet place to cram for her Read More

Murphy Brown: Jingle Hell, Jingle Hell, Jingle All the Way

Synopsis: In a surprising gesture of goodwill toward her fellow man (and fellow woman), Murphy (Candice Bergen) persuades her coworkers not to exchange Christmas gifts, but instead to donate their holiday money to charity. This they do--only to stand agape as Murphy herself breaks the no-gift promise. As a Read More

My Father, My Son

Synopsis: My Father, My Son was based on the wrenching autobiographical book by Admiral Elmo Zumwalt. This TV movie begins in 1968, when Secretary of the Navy Zumwalt orders the anti-personnel drug Agent Orange to be sprayed on enemy troops in Vietnam; the Admiral has been assured by his superiors that the Read More

Who Gets the Friends?

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, James Farentino

Synopsis: Artist Jill Clayburgh is divorced by her doctor husband James Farentino. Despite the obvious fact that Farentino is a louse, the loyalties of the couple's friends are divided. Left with precious little money, Clayburgh tries to make a go of it as a single mother, but finds that many of her Read More