Lynn Whitfield

Julie is adjusting to being a single mother to a grieving child while facing her first Christmas without her husband when she develops an unexpected friendship with her older neighbor Irene.

Os corretos Marcus e Emily fazem amizade com os caçadores de aventuras Ron e Kyla em um resort no México. Vivendo o momento, Marcus e Emily curtem uma semana de louca diversão e devassidão com essa nova "amizade de férias". Meses após a temporada de subversão, Marcus e Emily ficam apavorados quando Ron e Kyla aparecem, sem terem sido convidados, em seu casamento.

Nichelle Nichols' daunting task to launch a national blitz for NASA, recruiting 8,000 of the nation's best and brightest, including the trailblazing astronauts who became the first African American, Asian and Latino men and women to fly in space.

Seguindo as raízes clássicas de culto da franquia, esta antologia totalmente nova, que apresenta Tony Todd e Lynn Whitfield, é quatro contos aterrorizantes que irão assustar e emocionar o público com suas reviravoltas horríveis e comentários sociais.

Following the death of her father, a 17-year-old girl is sent to live with her estranged family and finds comfort in a questionable friendship with a self-destructive neighbor, leading both on a startling path to self discovery.

Uma publicitária perfeccionista com problemas na vida amorosa embarca em uma jornada de autoconhecimento que começa no visual radicalmente novo.

In a reality TV show created by the U.S. government about spies, audiences go on fake undercover missions, but fact cannot be easily distinguished from fiction.

Um emergente treinador de basquete do Ensino Médio, que está alcançando um número recorde de vitórias, é demitido depois de arriscar tudo ao orar com um jogador que sofre em casa. Diante dessa adversidade, o treinador luta para saber se deve enfrentar o Conselho da escola ou afastar-se de sua amada equipe. Quase falido, ele contrata um talentoso advogado, o qual é viciado em apostas. Ambos se tornam amigos. O treinador é levado à decisão certa sobre lutar por seus alunos, e o advogado vive um renascimento pessoal. A oração não falha narra como, da rescisão contratual à redenção, o ato de orar nos ensina que um homem é capaz de fazer qualquer coisa por seus queridos alunos, e que, ao mesmo tempo, esse mesmo ato redimirá outro homem que perdeu a direção.

An aspiring actress makes a pact with her fiancé to take a job as an exotic dancer to care for her cancer stricken father. Once the pact the couple made is broken, their lives are changed forever.

Akpos wins a 30-day holiday for two to Atlanta, Georgia. He takes his cousin (Richard), an IT specialist on the all- expense paid trip. Akpos flung his unique personality, showing-off his smartness and foolishness in an exciting mix of rhetoric andwitty humour.

When gruff and independent Candy meets her angry and stubborn birth mother, can the two open their hearts to each other?

Catharine Wright struggles with a debilitating sleep disorder. Her husband Michael struggles to cope when their new born son lay in the wake.

The Dempsey Sisters is a movie about the power of believing in a dream, the force of a family bond, and being willing to give up a sure thing for the one thing that makes life worth living overall.

Natalie resorts to picking up the pieces of her life after her husband leaves her for the family he has outside. she falls in love with Darrell, but he has secrets of his own. Can Natalie handle any more secrets?

Kelly Lofton is a young, successful dentist who has all the material things a woman could ask for. However, Kelly has struggled to find time for love in her busy schedule, so when her younger sister Susan gets engaged to a seemingly perfect man and organizes an extravagant engagement party, Kelly panics.

When eighteen-year-old Brendan King attempts to leave his turbulent gang life behind him, his past continues to threaten his new-found faith, family, and future

The greatest feeling in the world is when you learn to love! Follow the stories of seven everyday people as they experience laughter, life and matters of the heart. The all-star cast (Malinda Williams, Tatyana Ali, Keith Robinson, Lynn Whitfield and Darius McCrary) will take you through the good, the bad and the ugly of the many faces of love. Fall head over heels for this fresh, honest look at relationships and see what a difference a day makes.

While seeking answers to a past he cannot remember, a schizophrenic must find the strength to control his mental illness as he tries to build relationships with those he pushed away. Winner of multiple festival awards.

A woman (Lynn Whitfield) dying of kidney disease learns that God works in mysterious ways after convincing her son (Michael Jai White) to help a repentant ex-con (Byron Minns) whose unexpected presence prompts a startling deathbed confession.

Um jovem empresário contrata um instrutor para transformar um grupo de garotos desajeitados em uma equipe para competir no circuito de competição de dança underground.

Deon é um jogador de futebol americano promissor graças à combinação de força e velocidade. Sua expectativa é conseguir se profissionalizar e disputar a NFL, mas seus planos vão por água abaixo ao descobrir que está com câncer. A partir de então, sua vida muda drasticamente e ele precisa contar com a ajuda de sua família, especialmente sua mãe, para se reerguer.

A preacher's daughter, Amara, sings in the church choir before being discovered by a well-established musician. Soon she rises to international fame as a pop singer.

Após um divórcio agitado, Sandy, uma bela quarentona com dois filhos, resolve recomeçar a vida em Nova York. Entre o novo trabalho, as crianças e a academia, Sandy não tem tempo para nada. Quando contrata Aram, um rapaz de 24 anos para ser "o" babá das crianças, sua vida dá outra reviravolta, pois Aram parece ser tudo o que Sandy precisava, ele traz novidades, a faz se sentir jovem, bonita e valorizada. Mas, ao mesmo tempo, Sandy vive a insegurança desta nova relação. A partir daí começam as maiores confusões quando ela tenta ficar com um cara bem mais novo e cuidar das crianças ao mesmo tempo.

An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.

Aparentemente Mary Haines (Meg Ryan) leva uma vida perfeita: possui uma linda casa em Connecticut, uma filha de 12 anos, um marido bem-sucedido em Wall Street e uma carreira como designer na loja de roupas de seu pai. Para dar conta também de seus afazeres de casa ela conta com a ajuda da governanta Maggie (Cloris Leachman) e da babá Uta (Tilly Scott Pederson). Sua melhor amiga é Sylvia Fowler (Annette Bening), uma especialista em moda que está no auge da carreira e feliz por estar sozinha. Edie Cohen (Debra Messing), uma grande mãe coruja de seus filhos e também das amigas, e Alex Fisher (Jada Pinkett Smith), uma bem-humorada lésbica que tem o dom de falar o que ninguém espera ouvir, também pertencem ao círculo de amizades de Mary e Sylvia. Juntas elas enfrentam as felicidades e problemas da vida.

Homer Hobbs, home after two years in jail, discovers that life on the outside can be crueler than the back-breaking injustice of the chain gang...

As meninas integrantes de um grupo musical adolescente têm sua grande chance e vivem mil aventuras ao participar de um festival de música em Barcelona, na Espanha.

Confessions of a Call Girl is a revealing story of a women's struggle for balance as she battles a secret addiction while fighting to save her family and find herself.

Based upon Tyler Perry's acclaimed stage production, Madea's Family Reunion continues the adventures of Southern matriarch Madea. She has just been court ordered to be in charge of Nikki, a rebellious runaway, her nieces, Lisa and Vanessa, are suffering relationship trouble, and through it all, she has to organize her family reunion.

Drama baseado na história real de Stan 'Tookie' Williams (Jamie Foxx), fundador de uma gangue de rua de Los Angeles conhecida como Crisps. No corredor da morte, o líder da quadrilha conta a sua história à jornalista Barbara Becnel (Lynn Whitfield). Agora, longe das ruas e perplexo com a realidade da violência, Tookie se dedica a tirar crianças das ruas escrevendo livros denunciando a ação e o perigo das gangues. Graças ao seu trabalho de conscientização, foi indicado ao Prêmio Nobel da Paz quatro vezes.

Quatro adolescentes estão ensaiando para a competição de talentos da escola quando são descobertas por um famoso produtor musical. Ele quer transformá-las em algo que não são, e o caminho para o estrelato pode abalar a amizade entre elas.

Após ocupar por 8 anos a vice-presidência, Brian Lewis (Nick Searcy) quer se tornar presidente na eleição de 2004. Quando seu rival morre em um acidente aéreo, o partido precisa arrumar logo outro candidato. Bill Arnot (James Rebhorn), um influente senador do partido, tem a idéia de lançar um candidato pobre e negro para atrair as minorias, pois em breve elas serão maioria e ele quer este eleitorado, pois planeja concorrer em 2008. Assim um vereador de Washington, Mays Gilliam (Chris Rock), é escolhido, tendo como organizadores da campanha Martin Geller (Dylan Baker) e Debra Lassiter (Lynn Whitfield). Debra recebeu de Arnot a garantia de que será recompensada em 2008, quando ele se eleger presidente. Entretanto, quando ninguém esperava os números de Mays nas pesquisas começam a subir, sua popularidade entra em evidência e o rapaz pobre de Washington pode se tornar o primeiro presidente negro da história dos Estados Unidos.

Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.

A Girl Thing is a mini-series that revolves around a New York city street, a coffee house and a shrinks office. Dr. Beth Noonan is the therapist to one star per hour. Hour one deals with a woman not capable of having a relationship. Hour Two is about sisters who hate each other, trying to get along one last time. Hour Three is about adultery.

From world-renowned performer of the Jazz Age, to WWII spy, to civil rights activist – a look into the iconic life and legacy of Josephine Baker, narrated by Arsenio Hall, including rare archive footage, and interviews with Debbie Allen, Lynn Whitfield (who portrayed Baker in The Josephine Baker Story), and two of Baker’s sons.

Louis Gossett, Jr, Robert Townsend and Andre Braugher come together to each direct a short story, all of which are interconnected through themes of love and family. Set in the same predominantly black neighbourhood in North Philadelphia, these threecompelling tales tell the stories of an up-and-coming heavyweight boxer, a vegetable vendor, and a man who must protect a family member from the abuse of another.

The Lori Jackson Story - A civil rights campaigner, Lori Jackson, champions the the cause of a black marine convicted of rape, as she thinks he is innocent of the crime. Based on a real case.

In this made-for-tv movie, an adopted woman decides to find her birth mother. Her search leads her to a shocking discovery that she has to face and why her upbringing was not an easy one.

Based on the landmark civil rights case Sipes vs. McGhee, The Color of Courage chronicles the friendship between a white woman and a black woman whose family, the McGhees, has moved into a previously all-white neighborhood. A McGhee granddaughter, Kathleen McGhee-Anderson, wrote the script.

Uma jovem de doze anos e um garoto de sete, filhos de pais separados, não aceitam a nova namorada de seu pai, uma bela e renomada fotógrafa. O garoto ainda tolera a situação, mas a adolescente não se conforma com a separação e com fato de seu pai e a namorada viverem juntos, pois isto significa que as chances de reconciliação de seus pais se tornam quase nulas. Por sua vez, a mãe das crianças ainda alimenta esta briga, fazendo o gênero mãe perfeita.

Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade's family, who object to an inter-racial marriage, and Shelby's parents, who want her to marry a professional. As Shelby is afflicted by pre-marital doubts, handsome Lute McNeil arrives on the scene, determined to make Shelby his at any cost.

A estória desenrola-se na Louisiana, no ano de 1962, a família Batiste, capitaneada pelo charmoso médico Dr.Louis (Samuel L.Jackson), que embora seja casado com uma bela esposa, tem uma fraqueza por belas pacientes. Certo dia, quando Dr.Louis está flertando com uma sexy mulher casada, acidentalmente ele é observado por sua filha mais jovem, que acaba se traumatizando com a cena e contando tudo à sua irmã mais velha, que possui um terrível segredo acerca do pai delas.

Powerful story about love, struggle and passion of an over protective mother and her piano prodigy.

Os amigos de infância Joe Waters (Joe Pesci) e Gus Green (Danny Glover) vão até a Flórida para participar de um concurso de pesca. Porém eles se metem em várias confusões quando conhecem um criminoso, Dekker Massey (Nick Brimble), e se envolvem em uma caça ao tesouro que o bandido também ambiciona.

Nightclub manager Darnell Wright is a perpetual playboy who is almost as devoted to his job as he is to the pursuit of beautiful women. After he sets his sights on the ultra-classy Brandi Web, he launches an all-out assault to win her heart. Ultimately, charm, lust and passion prevail, but Darnell learns the hard way that when you play, you pay. Brandi is much harder to get rid of than she was to get--especially when she realizes that she has a rival vying for Darnell's affection. When he finally decides to call it quits, Brandi becomes an obsessed femme fatale stalking the new love of her life.

A woman pits herself against her husband and his Ku Klux Klan member friends when she learns that they are planning an attack against her black maid and her husband.

Bones Conway depois de perder o emprego de vendedor por suas trapalhadas, tem uma ideia brilhante: ganhar dinheiro no serviço militar. Mas o que ele não podia imaginar é que seria chamado para a guerra. Agora, esta verdadeira desgraça uniformizada tem que destruir uma base de mísseis do inimigo, sendo que a única arma que ele efetivamente sabe usar é a sua língua ferina!

Medical drama about a major hospital whose emergency room regularly faces an overload of patients. One of the doctors finds it necessary to adopt an unorthodox procedure to try to save a patient, and finds himself in trouble in consequence.

When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police. A cop is ordered to bring him to the court, but before they get there they have to deal with several attacks from killers.

As the Harlem Renaissance flourishes in jazzy New York City, Pauline, Esther and Alice struggle to survive. By day, they toil at dreary jobs, dreaming of stardom, riches and happiness. By night, they dance their troubles away at the famous Savoy Ballroom. But when World War II appears on the horizon, the girls find their fortunes unfolding too unevenly to reconcile, and they inevitably begin to drift apart.

Ricky Bell, an all-pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who died of a rare muscle disease in the prime of his career. The plot centers on Bell's relationship with a father-less handicapped boy, and his efforts to be a big brother to him. The boy ends up being an inspiration for Bell when his disease makes the athlete more afflicted than the boy.

Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975. Written by John Sacksteder

A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and grew to be an important voice with her written portrayals of Black American life in the rural south of the 1930's and 40's, and the stories, songs and folklore that were her heritage and inspiration.

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

Washington plays a school principal in a tough inner city Los Angeles high school out to rid it of drugs, gangs, low moral of teachers, and restore educational values.

Mais uma vez a paz da cidade de Amity e as vidas da família Brody são sacudidas por um tubarão sedento de sangue, neste extraordinário suspense, sequência do clássico original de terror. A agora viúva Ellen Brody está revivendo os horrores do passado quando um enorme tubarão tira a vida de seu filho. Aterrorizada, ela viaja para as Bahamas, onde é acolhida pelo piloto Michael Caine. Mas o terror das profundezas retorna, e Ellen terá que se preparar para um confronto de vida ou morte.

A behind the scenes look on Jaws The Revenge with interviews from the cast and crew.

Ed Marinaro is Malcolm "Mace" Douglas, a street-tough detective who's out for justice-no matter what the cost. While investigating the mysterious suicidal heroin overdoses of four beautiful exotic dancers, Mace puts together the pieces of a deadly puzzle, infiltrating a violent ring of shadowy drug and weapons dealers, Mace methodically tracks a serial killer (Rick Washburn) with murderous ties to a ruthless foreign diplomat (Harry Goz). Mace won't stop until he gets some answers. The FBI and KGB have them, but now they're talking back with bullets.

A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.

Estrelado por Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover e Kevin Costner como os quatro heróis involuntários que têm em seu caminho a esquecida Silverado, a cidade em que seus pais vivem e que foi tomada por um xerife corrupto e por um cruel ladrão de terras. Está em suas habilidades com as armas a salvação da cidade. Mas primeiro eles têm que tirar uns os outros da cadeia e aprender quem são seus verdadeiros amigos. Graças ao seu visual autêntico e ao elenco espetacular que ainda inclui Rosanna Arquette, John Cleese, Brian Dennehy, Jeff Goldblum e a ganhadora do Oscar, Linda Hunt (melhor atris coadjuvante em O Ano em Que Vivemos em Perigo, 1983), esta excitante aventura do Velho Oeste crua uma nova geração de fãs do Western e ganha o status de 'clássico moderno'.

Darryl Palmer (Michael O'Keefe) is a major league baseball player who meets and pursues an attractive singer (Rebecca De Mornay). After some setbacks, the two are married and sent on an emotional journey that sees his career take off, while hers doesn't. When she gives up her dreams to support her husband, she can't escape her own unhappiness. With a separation on the horizon, Darryl must choose between his big-league life and his one true love.

A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.

The powerful tales of seven diverse African-American women are woven together in this 1982 performance of Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning landmark play. A breakthrough portrayal of black women's experiences in America, the story combines music, poetry and dance to celebrate their unique culture while painting a poignant portrait of their terrible struggles.

When Ashley and her young daughter Sarah get caught up in a criminal enterprise that puts their lives at risk, she turns to the only person who can help: her estranged father Matt, currently living the life of a retired beach bum in the Cayman Islands. Their reunion is fleeting as they are soon tracked down on the island by crime boss Donnie and his lieutenant Bobo. As Ashley, Sarah, and Matt become entangled in an increasingly dangerous web, Ashley quickly learns her father had a secret past that she knew nothing about and that there is more to her father than meets the eye.