Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning play exploring the plight of black women makes the leap from stage to screen with this...
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Crystal/Brown
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2010
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Cuba Gooding Jr. stars as real-life neurosurgeon Ben Carson in this made-for-TV biographical drama from TNT. Directed by...
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2009
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Drawing inspiration from the true story of a temperamental debate coach who molded the students of a small East Texas college...
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2007
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A college-educated African-American schoolteacher frustrated by his inability to find a job repairs an abandoned recreational...
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Sue Davis
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2007
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2007
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A woman has to learn how to love and trust men all over again in this comedy drama. Helen McCarter (Kimberly Elise) would...
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Helen
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2005
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Though created by Jim Leonard, the weekly, hour-long CBS crime-and-punishment series Close to Home bore the distinctive stamp...
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Maureen Scofield
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2005
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One woman's odyssey through a hellish life of sexual abuse, drug addiction, and crime is resolved in faith in this tough but...
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Michelle Jordan
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2004
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2004
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A national health care crisis in the United States yields this tense drama from screenwriter James Kearns and director Nick...
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Denise Archibald
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2002
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Actor and dancer Gregory Hines served as both executive producer and star for this biographical drama that chronicles the...
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Fannie
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2001
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In this action comedy, a crook trying to go straight finds himself lured back to crime by the police, without his even...
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Lisa Hill
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2000
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Made for television, The Loretta Claiborne Story was the fact-based saga of a mentally and physically handicapped young woman...
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2000
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Denver
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1998
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Based on the memoirs of Yvonne S. Thornton, this heartwarming, inspirational family drama centers on a poor black laborer...
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1997
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The sophomore film effort from music video director F. Gary Gray, Set It Off is a crime thriller about four women bank...
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Tisean
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1996
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