Loretta Devine

Loretta Devine

出生 : 1949-08-21, Houston, Texas, USA

略歴

Loretta Devine was born on August 21, 1949 in Houston, Texas. She graduated from the University of Houston in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Drama and BrandeisUniversity in 1976 with a MFA in Theater. Devine is a member of The Epsilon Lambda Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. She began her career on Broadway starring in Dreamgirls. Minor roles for Devine followed in films such as Little Nikita (1988) and Stanley & Iris (1990). She also appeared in the first season of the TV series A Different World. In 1995, she landed a high-profile role as Gloria Matthews in Waiting to Exhale, joined in the cast by Whitney Houston, Gregory Hines, and Angela Bassett, among others. The role earned her an NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actress, as did her next movie, The Preacher's Wife, her second movie with Houston and Hines. In 2000, Devine took on the role of impassioned high school teacher Marla Hendricks on the Fox TV drama Boston Public. Devine won three more Image Awards for her work in the series. She also continued to work in film, playing prominent roles in Urban Legend, Urban Legends: Final Cut, and I Am Sam. Devine earned yet another Image Award nomination and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her work in the 2004 film Woman Thou Art Loosed. She also appeared in the 2005 Academy Awards Best Picture winning film Crash. She also plays Rochelle's mother, Maxine on the sitcom, Everybody Hates Chris. In 2007, she appeared in This Christmas, co-starring Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, and Regina King. Devine also appeared in Grey's Anatomy as Adele Webber. She played Patti on Eli Stone, an ABC television series which began airing in 2008 an in 2009, Devine starred in the TV series Cold Case. Most recently she can be seen in Lottery Ticket (2010), For Colored Girls (2010), Death at a Funeral and Madea’s Big Happy Family (2011).

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参加作品

A Snowy Day in Oakland
Jeanette
A Snowy Day in Oakland - A magical urban tale about a beautiful psychologist from San Francisco who decides to end a stalled romance with her longtime, high-profile, psychiatrist, boyfriend/business partner. She moves on with her life by opening her own private practice in a vacant, street-front office space in the middle of a small, commercial block located across the bay in Oakland, turning the predominately African-American and psychologically ignored neighborhood on its emotional ear.
All I Didn't Want for Christmas
Lorraine
Emily Harris is not doing great. In a desperate attempt to improve her life and make this Christmas not totally suck, Emily writes a letter to Santa. Fortunately, and unfortunately, her wine-soaked wishes start coming true.
マック&リタ
Sharon
A 30-year-old spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her 70-year-old self.
Doc McStuffins: The Doc Is 10!
Hallie (voice)
Doc McStuffins gets help from her friends and fans to make this her best birthday ever!
Christmas in Harmony
Mama
Harmony is tricked into auditioning for the Holiday Chorus — directed by an ex-boyfriend. By Christmas Eve, they could be harmonizing in the key of love.
The Starling
Velma
A woman adjusting to life after a loss contends with a feisty bird that's taken over her garden — and a husband who's struggling to find a way forward.
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new documentary is the long-awaited sequel to late filmmaker Rick McKay’s award-winning 2003 film Broadway: The Golden Age, continuing the saga into the '60s and '70s and spotlighting beloved classic Broadway shows including Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the Park, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, and 42nd Street. Featuring a galaxy of stars including Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, André De Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, and many more, the film also includes rare archival photos and never-before-seen footage both onstage and off.
Queen Bees
Sally
Helen is an independent widow who moves into the Pine Grove Senior Community and discovers it’s just like high school – full of cliques and flirtatious suitors. What she initially avoids leads her to exactly what she has been missing: new friendships and a chance at love again with newcomer Dan.
Always and Forever
Elda
After a tragedy reunites Nicole with her childhood friends, they each find themselves in danger, targets of a deranged stalker. Nicole knows this can't be a coincidence. The secrets of their past are coming back to haunt them.
スペル
Eloise
弁護士として成功し、裕福な家庭を築いた黒人男性マーキス。ある日、父親の訃報を聞いた彼は、家族とともに自家用セスナで遠い山奥にある故郷へ飛び立った。だが、途中落雷で飛行機が墜落、マーキスは故郷に近い山中の小村で、親切な夫婦に助けられる。家族の無事が心配なマーキスだが、けがで体が動かず、この家には電話すらない。やがて彼は、ここが不気味な呪術が支配する村で、自分が監禁されている事実に気付くのだが……。
A Family Reunion Christmas
Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan
M'Dear and her sisters struggle to keep their singing act together before a church Christmas pageant while Grandpa teaches the kids a valuable lesson.
A Sweet Christmas Romance
Loretta
When food stylist Holly returns home for Christmas, she learns that the elderly owner of her favorite childhood bakery is retiring and has started a contest to give the bakery away to whoever can recreate her famous 12 Days of Christmas recipes. When a local baker also enters the contest, the two adversaries end up cooking up something special together for the holidays.
Postmarked
Hattie
One summer afternoon, a ten-year-old boy finds a forgotten trove of postcards. To solve their mystery, he journeys to their postmarked city in search of the person who sent them.
The Trap
Mama Jay
A man returns home to Atlanta to help and turn around his family's struggling restaurant with the help of a new chicken recipe.
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
Self
Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history of black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre.
The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special
Hallie
When there are no presents under the tree, Doc suspects there's something wrong at the North Pole and time travels to figure out what went wrong and save Christmas!
Jingle Belle
Emory Simons
Every year, Isabelle (Tatyana Ali) and her high school sweetheart Mike (Cornelius Smith Jr.), rocked their small town’s annual Christmas Eve Pageant with a sweet Christmas duet. But after graduation, Isabelle left to study at Juillard in New York – leaving Mike behind. Years later, when Isabelle returns to her hometown to write music for the annual Christmas Eve Pageant, she is shocked to learn that Mike is the one directing the show. Can Isabelle and Mike put the past behind them and reunite on stage for another show-stopping duet?
Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend
Self
This two and a half hour documentary takes a look at the making of the 1998 horror film Urban Legend.
Behind the Movement
Jo Ann Robinson
Behind the Movement is a unique and fast-paced retelling of how Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat launched the history-making Montgomery Bus Boycott.
シエラ・バージェスはルーザー
Ms. Thomson
まちがった相手へのチャットから、賢いダサ女とスポーツ男子のバーチャルロマンスが始まる。でも彼はセクシーなチアリーダーとチャットしていると信じていた。
ネイキッド
Carol
Following a wild night out with his Best Man, Rob Anderson wakes up to find himself naked in an elevator on the morning of his wedding day and is forced to relive the morning over and over again.
Chapter & Verse
Miss Maddy
Upon his return from serving a ten-year sentence in prison, reformed gang leader, S. Lance Ingram, struggles to adapt to a changed Harlem. Unable to use the technological skills he acquired in jail, Lance is forced to accept a position delivering meals for a local food bank. It is here that he befriends Ms. Maddy, 75, a past beauty with a irreverent and hardened shell to whom he delivers dinners. Through her, Lance finds hope, relearning the joys of life and living despite the outwardly bedeviled society in which they find themselves.
No Regrets
Ms Carey
This film is a romantic comedy about a stewardess (Calhoun), who after 12 years of dating (Joseph) as college sweethearts (along with several marriage proposals in between), meets a business man going through a divorce (White) on one of her job layovers. As expected, sparks fire and unexpectedly a traumatic past is revealed, and the couples lives are changed for ever.
Brett Gelman's Dinner in America
Herself
Brett Gelman invites four African-American panelists to discuss racism in the United States.
Grandma's House
Based upon the true story of Kimberley T. Zulkowski's Grandmother, Margie Ree Harris. "Grandma's House" gives a compelling insight into how the Executive Producer's life changed when she moved into her Grandmother's home, and their generations became one under the same roof. Chock-full of passion, Faith, and Family, the Film demonstrates the trials and tribulations she faced living with a Grandparent who stood as an inner-city Matriarch and Pillar of Strength to selflessly serve her Family, and surrounding community.
Caged No More
Aggie
Aggie, A 67 year-old Black Cajun, has just stepped into her worst nightmare. Her two granddaughters have disappeared, and the only clue she possesses is a forgotten laptop. Aware she only has a short window of time, she feels helpless to save them as her money and influence are scarce. Desperate to get her girls back, Aggie risks everything to cross paths with Richard and Lottie DuMonde, two of the wealthiest and most connected people in New Orleans. Certainly, once they hear her story, they will help. But what Aggie doesn't foresee is the dark world she's about to step into, or the dangers accompanying the rescue needed to bring her girls home.
Norm of the North
Tamecia (voice)
Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in New York, Norm begins life anew as a performing corporate mascot, only to discover that his new employers are directly responsible for the destruction of his polar home.
The Sound and the Fury
Dilsey
A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
For the Love of Ruth
Naomi
Welcome to Me
Barb Vaughn
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
Back to School Mom
Meghan Graham
Mary Thomas, a free-spirited musician, has spent the past two decades traveling the world, but at age 41 she decides to go back to college and finish her degree so that, for once, she can finally finish something she started. Back at her old university, she becomes close friends with her popular and charming "peer tutor" -- only to learn that he is actually the son she gave up 20 years earlier.
サヨナラの代わりに
Marilyn
A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.
Comeback Dad
Malinda
A man tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way
Hallie
When your favorite toys need fixing, count on the best toy fixerupper in town - Doc McStuffins - to lend a hand and a hug! Join Doc, Lambie, Stuffy and the whole crew for two hours of songfilled fun. Splash around with noble knight, Sir Kirby, as his icky-sticky armor turns sparkly-shiny after a super-fun bubble bath; jump for joy along with Kiko, Doc's amazing new action toy from Japan; whirl and twirl with dancing doll Bella Ballerina, and so much more! Remember, everyone gets boo-boos sometimes, but when it comes to feeling better, A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way! Volume 3 - DVD/Bluray
A Very Larry Christmas
Mrs. Claus
Larry is a good natured guy with a spotty work history. Santa picks Larry to fill in when he breaks his leg. Larry`s old boss and Santa`s PR assistant doubt Larry and his ability. Even Larry has misgivings but Santa and Larry`s dad believe Larry`s Christmas spirit and good heart will save the day.
Saving Westbrook High
Doris
A diverse community, an ambitious newly-appointed principal and a handful of committed teachers come together to save a once popular suburban school in danger of closing.
サバンナ・アドベンチャー
Mama V (voice)
A half-striped zebra is blamed for the drought and leaves his herd in search of his missing stripes. He is joined on his quest by an overprotective wildebeest and a flamboyant ostrich; they defeat the tyrannical leopard and save his herd.
In the Hive
Mrs. Inez
Sixteen-year-old Xtra Keys hopes to raise his son better than his boozy, razor-edged mother raised him, and he just might get his wish when he's thrust into an unorthodox alternative school full of underprivileged boys.
Politics of Love
Shirlee Gupta
Politics makes strange bedfellows, but never stranger than when a sexy, savvy, African-American conservative Republican reluctantly falls for his Democratic counterpart: a beautiful Indian-American Obama campaign volunteer. Sparks fly, tempers flare, heads turn, and romance blossoms for this mismatched pair of lovers in the frantic and intoxicating days leading up to Election Day. Can the politics of love conquer all?
ジャンピング・ザ・ブルーム 恋と嵐と結婚式
Mrs. Taylor
格差婚カップルとその家族が巻き起こす騒動を描いたコメディドラマ。交通事故をきっかけに出会い、恋に落ちた弁護士のサブリナと銀行員のジェイソン。ふたりはやがて結婚を決めるが、彼らの実家は社会的にも経済的にも大きな格差があった。結婚式のために訪れた島で顔を合わせた両家の家族は、価値観の違いから衝突するようになり……。主演は「ミッション・インポッシブル ゴースト・プロトコル」のポーラ・パットンと「セントアンナの奇跡」のラズ・アロンソ。
Madea's Big Happy Family
Shirley
When Shirley, Madea's niece, receives distressing news about her health, the only thing she wants is her family gathered around her. However, Shirley's three adult children are too preoccupied with their own troubled lives to pay attention to their mother. It is up to Madea, with the help of rowdy Aunt Bam, to bring the clan together and help Shirley deal with her crisis.
ビバリーヒルズ チワワ2
Delta (voice)
前作でめでたくカップルとなったセレブチワワのクロエと野良犬出身のパピが、晴れて新婚生活をスタート。ビバリーヒルズの豪邸でわんぱくな5匹の子犬たちに振り回されながらも、一家で楽しく暮らす日々。ところが、パピの飼い主サムの実家が差し押さえられることを知り、家を取り戻すため、パピとクロエは賞金狙いのドッグショーに挑戦する。その頃、以前メキシコで出会った警察犬のデルガドが、秘密任務でビバリーヒルズに現れる。子犬たちは、いつもパピの話に登場する“勇敢なチワワ戦士”になって、デルガドを助けようと密かに相談。5匹だけでこっそり家を抜け出したのはいいが、とんでもない事態になり・・・。 冒険も楽しさも、そしてかわいさも益々パワーアップした中に、「家族はいつも一緒」という大切なメッセージが込められた、心温まるファミリー・エンターテイメント。
For Colored Girls
Juanita / Green
About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
Lottery Ticket
Grandma
Kevin Carson is a young man living in the projects who has to survive a three-day weekend after his opportunistic neighbors find out he's holding a winning lottery ticket worth $370 million
Death at a Funeral
Cynthia
Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally drugs her fiancé, and Aaron's successful younger brother, Ryan, flies in from New York, broke but arrogant. To top it all off, a mysterious stranger wants a word with Aaron.
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Miss Roberts
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.
Spring Breakdown
Dr. Marguerite
Three women in their thirties head to a popular Spring Break destination and try to relive the Spring Break they never had.
ビバリーヒルズ チワワ
Delta (voice)
ビバリーヒルズでセレブ犬として暮らすチワワのクロエ。クロエの世話を託されたレイチェル(パイパー・ペラーボ)は、クロエを連れてメキシコ旅行へと向かう。しかし、クロエは犬の窃盗団に誘拐されて闘犬場へ。どうにか逃げ出したクロエだったが、見知らぬ土地でノラ犬としての生活を送るハメになってしまう。
悪党(ワル)にもラブソングを!
Sister Doris
ケチな窃盗ばかりをしている2人組。教会に強盗に入ったものの、人質を取り立てこもるはめになった2人は、牧師や信者たちの優しさに触れて大切なことに気づく。
今年のクリスマスは?
Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield
クリスマスを迎え、4年ぶりに大集合したウィットフィールド家。久しぶりに家族が共に時間を過ごすうちに、各々が胸に秘めた悩みや葛藤が明らかになっていく。
Cougar Club
Dolly
When Spence and Hogan graduate from college, life is bleak. They have to work for heinous divorce lawyers that torture them. Spence has a girlfriend from hell and Hogan just wants to start his life already. As luck would have it, our two young men are presented with an opportunity, they develop a club of young men devoted to the older woman, the "Cougar" if you will.
ドリームガールズ
Jazz Singer
1960年代のデトロイト。ライブハウスでディーナ、エフィ、ローレルの「ドリーメッツ」がライブハウスの出演を賭けてオーディションを受けていた。その三人に目をつけたのが中古車ディーラーでジェームス“サンダー”アーリーのプロデューサーであるカーティス・テイラー・ジュニアだった。彼はジミーの女癖の悪さからバックコーラスを失い、探していたのだがドリーメッツの声を聞き、週500ドルで彼女たちを雇う。
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
Addie Collins
In the Lifetime® movie, THE FANTASIA BARRINO STORY: LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE, a single teenage mother overcomes all odds - sexual abuse, poverty and illiteracy - by relying on her spectacular singing voice. She ultimately gains national prominence as the winner of a hit talent show. Fantasia Barrino plays herself in this modern true Cinderella story. Also starring Loretta Devine, Kadeem Hardison and Viola Davis.
Dirty Laundry
Evelyn
After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spirited, insulting, and inflexible, has sent a ten-year-old boy who says he's Sheldon's son up to see Sheldon. Sheldon comes home to straighten things out. Old arguments flare up - between mother and son and between brothers. Sheldon wants no part of fatherhood or family. Then, someone else from New York shows up at Evelyn's door, bringing a new set of challenges. Will this family ever stop airing its dirty laundry? And what of Sheldon: where is his pride? Can he, in the words of James Baldwin, go where his blood beats and live the life he has?
クラッシュ
Shaniqua Johnson
クリスマス間近のロサンゼルス。黒人2人組に車を盗まれた地方検事のリック夫妻。白人警官のライアンはパトロール中、裕福な黒人夫婦に屈辱を味わわせた。ペルシャ人の雑貨店主ファハドは、ドアの修理に来た黒人ダニエルと口論になる。やがて、彼らの人生は思いがけない形で交錯する。
King's Ransom
Miss Gladys
Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other people interested in his wealth as well.
Woman Thou Art Loosed
Cassey Jordan
An adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes' self-help novel, chronciling a woman's struggle to come to terms with her legacy of abuse, addiction and poverty.
Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs
Book of Love delivers humor along with the mysteries of unrequited love and relationships gone bad. The film's story line focuses on three men living, dating and loving in Los Angeles in the 90's. They struggle with heartbreak and insecurity as a result of failed relationships. The three characters’ stories unfold through sessions with their therapist – sessions that are often as comedic as they are insightful.
アイ・アム・サム
Margaret Calgrove
7歳程度の知能しかない中年男性サムはスターバックスで働き、ホームレス女性が出産した自分の娘、ルーシー・ダイアモンドと幸せに暮らしていた。しかし、ソーシャル・ワーカーに7歳になったルーシーは彼の知能を超えてしまい父親として養育能力がないと判断され、施設で保護されることになる。失望した彼は法廷で闘う決意を固め、エリート弁護士のリタに依頼したがとても不利な裁判だった。
Kingdom Come
Marguerite Slocumb
When her husband keels over from a stroke, Raynelle Slocumb calls the entire clan together to remember their dearly departed. Family tensions reach a comedic boil as the wildly dysfunctional Slocumbs squabble and fight their way to the funeral.
ハート・オブ・ウーマン
Flo
広告代理店のニックは母親がダンサーだったことで変わった人生を送ってきた。女性に対して自信満々で、口説き方からベッドで寝るなんてお手の物。そんなニックは離婚を経験し前妻が再婚する事になり、一時的に年頃の実娘と生活するが、今までまともに父親らしいことをしてこなかったせいか完全に馬鹿にされている始末。会社でもヘッドハンティングされてきた美人女性ダーシーがニックの狙っていたポジションに就くことになり、自分の上司になる。彼女は女性向けの広告で成功を収めてきたので、会社の方針として女性向けの広告を作ることになった。ニックは彼女を憎く思いながらも自宅で女性の気持ちになって広告を考えていた時、あるドジを踏んでしまう。しかし、この出来事で突然、女性の考えることが聞こえるようになる。それを境にニックが女性の心の声に耳を傾けることから、彼の仕事、恋愛、父娘関係、が変わっていく事になる。
ルール2
Reese
The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country. At Alpine University, someone is determined to win the best film award at any cost - even if it means eliminating the competition. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect.
Best Actress
Connie Travers
A Hollywood writer becomes embroiled while investigating into the lives of five fictitious actresses all nominated for the Academy Award for best actress.
Freedom Song
Evelyn Walker
Freedom Song (2000) is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of the Freedom Summer, a group of high school students in the small town are eager to make grassroots changes in their own community. The young activists meet resistance not only from white southerners, but from their parents, who have experienced firsthand the violence that can result from speaking out.[1] As high school students band together with the support of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, they make strides in registering African-American voters and gaining awareness for their cause.
Love Kills
Sylvia Finkelstein
A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills millionaire.
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Ruby Dandridge
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen Jones", becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Marriages and affairs would break her heart, but her heart was strong. Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star - with all the glory and all the pain of being loved, abused, cheated, glorified, undermined and undefeated. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings. Halle Berry stars as Dorothy Dandrige.
Jackie's Back!
Snookie Tate (Jackie's Childhood Friend)
A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback concert.
The Breaks
Floria
Derrick, a racially-confused Irishman raised in the hood by a black family is having the worst day ever. Determined to prove to his fed-up mother and would-be girlfriend that he's not a screw-up, he sets out to do one thing right (get some milk) and even that proves to be a challenge! Hilarious encounters with racist red-neck cops, local gangsters and 'flamboyant' pawn shop owners ensue, and along the way Derek shows that he can actually do things for others and maybe even get his own life together.
Funny Valentines
Dearie B.
A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the rekindling of a broken friendship with her cousin.
Down in the Delta
Zenia
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
ルール
Reese Wilson
ニューイングランド州で連続殺人事件が発生。実はその残忍な殺害方法の裏には、“都市伝説”というルールが存在するのだった……。若手スターの共演で送るサスペンス・ホラーのヒット作。
Don King: Only in America
Connie Harper
A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager.
Lover Girl
Leticia / 'Coco'
Jake is a 16-year-old girl whose mother left her. She finds her older sister Darlene in L.A., but Darlene turns her away. Darlene's neighbor Marci takes pity on Jake, allowing her to stay over. When Jake discovers that Marci is a manager in a massage parlor, she convinces Marci to hire her.
Clover
Everleen
Hoodlum
Pigfoot Mary
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
The Price of Kissing
Jackee
Pauley Perrette plays Renee, a young woman discovering her own meaning of love. From childhood memories of her mother to her own experiences as a young woman, she struggles to find answers to life's greatest mystery. From a recommendation of a friend, she becomes the doorman at a local club. There she meets several friends who help her on her journey of discovery. Who will be there when it rains?
天使の贈りもの
Beverly
素晴らしい歌声を持つ牧師の妻に恋してしまった天使・ダドリーと、夫を愛しながらもダドリーの優しさに心揺れる妻のドラマを描く。デンゼル・ワシントン、ホイットニー・ヒューストンの共演で綴るラブ・ストーリー。
Waiting to Exhale
Gloria Matthews
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.
Amos & Andrew
Ula
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal.
The American Clock
Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.
Class Act
Blade's Mom
Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is juvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the other one. Now, Duncan kind of likes the attention from being thought of as a real bad dude, if only the school bully would stop trying to rough him up. And Blade definitely likes being thought of as important instead of as trouble.
Livin' Large!
Nadine Biggs
A young black reporter begins to lose his identity.
Caged Fear
Judy
After a jewelry theft Tommy Lane can hardly free. His girlfriend Kristen has less luck and is arrested. She's sentenced to jail in an ill-reputed female prison in Oklahoma. Tommy doesn't let her down; he manages to get into the prison - on the other side of the bars - to force the ruthless director to let her go.
Stanley & Iris
Bertha
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Parent Trap III
Thelma
When Jeff plans to marry again, his triplet daughters Megan, Lisa and Jessie try to bring him together with Susan.
Sticky Fingers
Diane
Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend Diane to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of town in order to avoid trouble. Once the money is in their possession, however, temptation proves too much for them.
リトル・ニキータ
Verna McLaughlin
Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to extort the Soviets; to prove he's serious, he's killing their agents one by one, including "sleepers," agents under deep cover awaiting orders. Roy interviews a high school lad, Jeff Grant, an applicant to the Air Force Academy. In a routine background check, Roy discovers that Jeff's parents are sleepers. He must see if Jeff is also a spy, confront the parents yet protect them, and catch his nemesis. Meanwhile, the Soviets have sent their own spy-catcher, the loner Karpov, to reel in Scuba. Alliances shift; it's cat and mouse.
Anna to the Infinite Power
Mrs. Benson
Anna Hart was always an odd child, a genius, a shoplifter, desperately afraid of flickering lights, with strange prophetic dreams. Simultaneously, several strange things begin to happen. A strange, mysterious neighbor, by the name of MacKayla moves in next door to the Harts. And, most frightening of all, Anna sees her exact double on the television one night. As her investigation of the other Anna, Anna Smithson, progresses, she begins to learn the truth. The truth about a woman named Anna Zimmerman that has been dead for twenty years, and most importantly, the truth about herself
Will
Will, shot on location in 1980s Harlem, focuses on Will (played by Obaka Adedunyo), a girls’ basketball coach fighting through a heroin addiction, while mentoring a 12-year-old street kid, adopted by Will and his wife (played by Loretta Devine).
Urban Legend
Reese
The movie will center on a diverse cast of college students as they navigate a series of bizarre deaths that resemble urban legends linked to the darkest corners of social media.