Gloria Foster
출생 : 1933-11-15, Chicago, Illinois, USA
사망 : 2001-09-29
약력
Gloria Foster (November 15, 1933 – September 29, 2001) was an American actress, most known for her stage performances both on and off Broadway, including her acclaimed roles in plays In White America and Having Our Say, winning three Obie Awards during her career.
In films, she was perhaps best known as the Oracle in The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003), the latter film being her last. Gloria Foster also played the role of the mother of Yusef Bell in the mini series The Atlanta Child Murders which aired in 1985.
The Voice of History
For over 4,000 years, adherents of the world's monotheistic faiths have wrestled with the question of God. This extraordinary, feature-length film, based on Karen Armstrong's acclaimed book of the same name, traces that elusive and fascinating quest.
Oracle
시온이 컴퓨터 군단에게 장악될 위기에 처하면서, 네오는 자신의 능력에 대한 더 큰 통제력을 갖게 된다. 이제 몇 시간 후면 지구상에 남은 인류 최후의 보루인 시온이 인간 말살을 목적으로 프로그래밍 된 센티넬 무리에 의해 짓밟히게 될 터. 그러나 시온의 시민들은 오라클의 예언이 이루어져 전쟁이 끝날 것이라는 모피어스의 신념에 용기를 얻고, 네오에게 모든 희망과 기대를 걸어보기로 한다. 서로에 대한 사랑의 힘으로, 스스로에 대한 믿음으로 용기를 얻은 네오와 트리니티는 모피어스와 함께 인간을 억압하고 착취하는 시스템에 맞서기 위해 매트릭스로 돌아간다.
Oracle
인간의 기억마저 AI에 의해 입력되고 삭제되는 세상, 진짜보다 더 진짜 같은 가상 현실 매트릭스. 그 속에서 진정한 현실을 인식할 수 없게 재배되는 인간들. 그 매트릭스를 빠져 나오면서 AI에게 가장 위험한 인물이 된 모피어스는 몇 안 되는 동료들과 함께 기계와의 전쟁 전후의의 폐허를 떠돌며 인류를 구할 마지막 영웅을 찾아 헤맨다. 마침내 모피어스는 낮에는 평범한 회사원 앤더슨으로, 밤에는 해커로 활동하는 청년 네오를 그로 지목한다. 모피어스의 지시대로 그를 만나게 된 네오는 두개의 알약 중 하나를 고르는 선택을 하게 되는데...
Sugar Brown
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
Jeanette
부패한 건설회사 사장의 아들 닉(빈센트 스파노)을 중심으로 노동자, 부패 경찰, 돈 많은 세력가, 흑인 분리주의자, 사기꾼, 마피아와 범죄를 묵인하는 정치인 등 30여명이 넘는 다양한 캐릭터들이 톱니바퀴처럼 맞물려 있다. 닉은 아버지가 빌딩 주인인 덕에 편한 조합 일을 하며 하루 종일 건설현장에 나가 빈둥거린다. 닉은 아무 일도 하지 않고 월급을 받는 걸 견디지 못하고 결국 직장을 그만둔다. 아버지와의 갈등으로 방황하던 닉은 폭력 경찰 남편과 이혼하고 혼자 사는 안젤라(바바라 윌리암스)와 사랑에 빠진다. 하지만 타락한 도시는 이들의 사랑과 꿈을 조롱할 뿐이다.
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Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
A dramatization of the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation. One of the most pivotal moments in 20th century American history is bracingly dramatized in Separate but Equal. In telling the detailed story of the Supreme Court's 1953 decision to abolish racial segregation in schools, this superb 1991 TV movie covers a broad spectrum of issues, never taking its "eyes off the prize" while its first-rate cast conveys the importance of the Supreme Court's ultimately unanimous decision.
Medusa
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his daughter, who changes her career more often than her clothes, has begun dating a man old enough to be Leonard's father! On top of it all, the government has asked him to come back and save the world again.
Sheila Small
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.
Volumnia
A video recording of a New York Shakespeare Festival 1979 stage production of Coriolanus with an all-black and Hispanic cast. Producer Joseph Papp intended to provide professional opportunities for actors of minority ethnic backgrounds. A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
Judith
A hip American agent and his foxy associate try to recover a hundred pounds of stolen plutonium in Italy before it can be used by terrorists.
Serena Blue
An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia.
Ivy Revers
At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time.
Sally
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
Mrs. Philipot
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
Lee
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Duke's Mom
A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem.
