Lorraine ToussaintFilmography

Saving Grace: Season 01

Actors: Holly Hunter, Leon Rippy, Bailey Chase, Bokeem Woodbine, Laura San Giacomo

Oprah Winfrey Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Actors: Ruby Dee, Terrence Howard, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Lorraine Toussaint, Halle Berry, Michael Ealy

Synopsis: Originally telecast March 6, 2005, by ABC, this "Oprah Book Club" TV movie is adapted from Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, a certified classic of African-American literature. Covering the first 30 years of the 20th century, the film is set in Eatonville, FL, a largely Read More

This Far By Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys, Part 2 - God is a Negro

Actors: Lorraine Toussaint

This Far By Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys, Part 1 - There is a River

Actors: Lorraine Toussaint

This Far By Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys [TV Documentary Series]

Actors: Lorraine Toussaint

Synopsis: Created by Henry Hampton, the guiding force behind the classic PBS documentary miniseries Eyes on the Prize, This Far by Faith traces the religious history of African-Americans from 1526 (the first year that Africans were introduced to Christianity) to the 21st century. The project demonstrated Read More

This Far By Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys, Part 3 - Guide My Feet

Actors: Lorraine Toussaint

This Far By Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys, Part 6 - Rise Up and Call Their Names

Actors: Lorraine Toussaint

This Far By Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys, Part 5 - Inheritors of the Faith

Actors: Lorraine Toussaint

This Far By Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys, Part 4 - Freedom Faith

Actors: Lorraine Toussaint

The Sky Is Falling

Actors: DeDee Pfeiffer, Teri Garr, Howard Hesseman, Eric Close, Laura Leighton

Synopsis: Just how bad are things going to get for Emily Hall (Dedee Pfeiffer)? At 28, she's finally finished her first novel only to see it rejected by every publisher to whom it's submitted. However, this is small potatoes compared to her personal life. She's just broken up with her long-term boyfriend (Eric Close Read More

Any Day Now [TV Series]

Actors: Annie Potts, Lorraine Toussaint, Mae Middleton, Shari Dyon Perry, Courtney Vance

Synopsis: This TV drama, Lifetime's first original dramatic series, explores the relationship of white Mary Elizabeth O'Brian (Annie Potts) and black Rene Jackson (Lorraine Toussaint) who grew up together as good friends in segregated Alabama of the early '60s -- with Mae Middleton portraying Mary Elizabeth Read More

Nightjohn

Actors: Carl Lumbly, Beau Bridges, Allison Jones, Lorraine Toussaint, Bill Cobbs

Synopsis: Sarny (Allison Jones) is born into slavery and separated from her mother at an early age. She's raised by Dealey (Lorraine Toussaint), who promises early on that "nuthin' too bad" will happen to her young charge. Clel Waller (Beau Bridges), who owns the plantation, is a cruel man, who sees the Read More

If These Walls Could Talk

Synopsis: The compilation film If These Walls Could Talk consists of three short films that each deal with the controversial issue of abortion. Although each of the stories is set in a different decade, the unifying element (aside from the subject matter) is that all three transpire in the same house. The Read More

It Was Him or Us

Actors: Richard Grieco, Ann Jillian, Monique Lanier, Richard Masur, Wil Wheaton

Synopsis: When her daughter's lover begins exhibiting signs of becoming a dangerous abuser, a mother attempts to intervene. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dangerous Minds

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney Vance, Robin Bartlett, Bruklin Harris

Synopsis: In this drama, a school teacher discovers that it takes more than the ABCs to get through to a class of "uneducatable" kids. When Lou Anne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer), a nine-year veteran of the Marine Corps with a degree in education, begins a new job at an inner-city school in California, the Read More

Law & Order: Sanctuary

Synopsis: A 12-year-old Harlem youth is killed in a hit-and-run. The driver, an elderly Jewish man named Joshua Berger (Michael Constantine), is not indicted. This is all it takes for outspoken (and blatantly bigoted) black activist Reverend Ott (Tony Todd) to foment racial tensions that explode in Read More

Mother's Boys

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Vanessa Redgrave, Luke Edwards

Synopsis: A psychotic estranged wife attempts to sabotage her husband's new romance by turning her children against his lover in this thriller. Jude (Jamie Lee Curtis) had abandoned her husband Robert (Peter Gallagher) and their three sons several years earlier. Unfortunately, now that Robert has filed for Read More

Bleeding Hearts

Actors: Mark Jacobs, Karen Kirkland, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Melina Kanakaredes, Ranjit Chowdhry

Synopsis: A doomed interracial relationship provides the focus of this tragedy. White paralegal Lonny, wants to write a political novel that rails against the system, but he can't seem to start it. His writer's block has cost him emotionally, and he is bored with his job, his conversations with his father Read More

Point of No Return

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Miguel Ferrer, Anne Bancroft

Synopsis: Director John Badham's remake of French action thriller La Femme Nikita moves the action to the U.S., where Maggie (Bridget Fonda) is a strung-out Washington, D.C. drug addict who kills a policeman in a pharmaceutical-induced haze. Sentenced to death, Maggie is rescued by a shady operative, Bob (Gabriel Byrne Read More

Lies and Lullabies

Actors: Allyce Beasley, Guy Boyd, Tim Kelleher, Piper Laurie, Ace Mask, Andy Romano, Lorraine Toussaint, Kathleen York, A.J. Johnson, Susan Dey

Synopsis: Christina (Susan Dey) is a cocaine addict in a tumultuous relationship with an equally drug-addicted boyfriend. When she becomes pregnant, the baby is born not only prematurely but with the chemical dependency of its mother. Now Christina is in a fight to make her life clean and stable so that Read More

Law & Order: Jurisdiction

Synopsis: Two murders, one in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan, have both apparently been committed by a mentally retarded person. The established rules of jurisdiction governing the two boroughs -- and heated arguments amongst the investigating detectives over interrogation techniques -- make it difficult to Read More

Love, Lies and Lullabies

Actors: Susan Dey, Lorraine Toussaint, D.W. Moffett, Piper Laurie, Kathleen York

Synopsis: When a rebellious young woman's cocaine habit results in an addicted premature baby, authorities whisk the infant away. Devastated, the young mother realizes that she will have to prove herself worthy and capable of motherhood and so sets out to clean up her act. Unfortunately, it may be too Read More

Law & Order: Skin Deep

Synopsis: Law & Order launched its third season (and its new Wednesday-night time slot) with a complex murder mystery involving a "high-fashion" photographer who sidelines as a pimp. Found murdered in his studio, the photographer has left behind a rather sizeable address book, crammed with the names and Read More

Trial: The Price of Passion, Part 1

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Beverly D'Angelo, Peter Strauss

Synopsis: Based on Clifford Irving's novel Trial, this 2-part TV movie is set amongst the Texas elite. Peter Strauss plays Warren Blackburn, a brilliant but discredited trial lawyer. His career seems due for redemption when judge Louise Parker (Jill Clayburgh), formerly Blackburn's bitterest foe, appoints Read More

Hudson Hawk

Actors: Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, Sandra Bernhard, Richard E. Grant, James Coburn

Synopsis: Michael Lehmann directed this post-modernist hash of To Catch a Thief and The Naked Gun starring Bruce Willis as Hudson Hawk, a cat burglar who wants to go straight, but the circumstances won't allow it. The story begins in a pre-credit sequence that takes place in the renaissance. Leonardo Da Read More

Law & Order: The Secret Sharers

Synopsis: When young Nicky Guzman (Enrique Monez) is accused of killing a drug dealer, public sympathy is very much on his side. This makes it difficult for the D.A.'s office to mount a successful case against Guzman. But things really get beyond the control of assistant D.A.'s Stone (Michael Moriarty) and Read More

Law & Order: Subterranean Homeboy Blues

Synopsis: In a fictionalized replay of the Bernhard Goetz incident, former dancer Laura di Biasi (Cynthia Nixon), a white woman, is arrested after shooting two black youths on a subway. Di Biasi claims that she was acting in self defense, but Assistant D.A. Robinette (Richard Brooks), himself an Read More

Common Ground, Part 1

Actors: Jane Curtin, Richard Thomas

Synopsis: J. Anthony Lukas' 1985 Pulitzer Prize winning book Common Ground served as the basis of the two-part TV movie Common Ground. Jane Curtin plays Alice McGoff, and CCH Pounder plays Rachel Twymon, two Boston housewives and mothers on opposite sides of one of the city's bitterest racial battles. In Read More

Law & Order: Indifference

Synopsis: Summoned to an expensive Upper West Side elementary school, detectives Greevey (George Dzundza) and Logan (Chris Noth) find a young pupil in a semi-comatose state. The investigation leads to prominent therapist Jacob Lowenstein (David Groh), a chronic philanderer, and Lowenstein's wife Carla (Marcia Jean Kurtz Read More

Breaking In

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Sheila Kelley, Lorraine Toussaint, Albert Salmi

Synopsis: In this comedy (which claims a strong pedigree -- it was written by John Sayles and directed by Bill Forsyth), Burt Reynolds plays Ernie, an aging career burglar who knows just about everything there is to know about breaking and entering. One night, Ernie has stealthily slipped into a home only Read More

A Case of Deadly Force

Synopsis: This gripping made-for-TV courtroom drama centers on a pair of hard-working lawyers who become obsessed with proving that the tactical division of the Boston Police Force made a fatal mistake when they shot the wrong man following a robbery. The plot is based on a true story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

The Face of Rage

Synopsis: Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the made-for-TV The Face of Rage is set in a rehabilitation facility. Here a group of rapists are required to confront their victims face-to-face. The film concentrates on the bitter verbal sparring session between assaulter Richard (Graham Bechel) and Read More