Gospel-minded playwright David E. Talbert produces, writes, and directs this urban crime comedy concerning a pair of...
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2008
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While researching a novel, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) pays a return visit to New Orleans. Before long, she is enmeshed in a...
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1995
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In New Orleans, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) attends the funeral of a legendary jazz musician. She also gets involved in a...
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1991
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1989
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Consumed by grief when his father is felled by a heart attack, 11-year-old Obie (Ricky Busker) runs away from his white,...
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1987
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The Fig Tree was the opening installment of the 1987-88 season of PBS' Wonderworks series. Set in 1903 Texas, the story...
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1987
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The setting is New Orleans, where a prominent jazz musician is killed onstage in full view of a nightclub audience. It turns...
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1985
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The expensively mounted miniseries North and South was originally telecast in six two-hour installments between November 3...
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1985
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In this poignant adaptation of James Baldwin's novel about a few generations in the life of an Afro-American family, a young...
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Elizabeth Grimes
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1984
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First offered as an ABC Theatre presentation on January 9, 1984, Something About Amelia stars Ted Danson in an "against type"...
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1984
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Richard Pryor gives a compelling performance in Some Kind of Hero, playing a Vietnam veteran who tries to readjust to...
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1982
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1981
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In her first TV-movie appearance, Genevieve Bujold plays Elizabeth, an attractive heiress from the North who becomes the...
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1981
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Originally made for television, the film concerns three divorces and the effect on the varied economic level present in each...
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1980
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1980
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Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five...
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Maggie Rogers
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1979
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Hal Ashby's 1978 melodrama examines the impact of the Vietnam War on the "war at home" among the men who fought it and the...
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1978
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This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the...
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1977
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Heroes is an old-fashioned social problem movie concerning a troubled Vietnam veteran and the loving woman who helps him to...
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Jane Adcox
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1977
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