Mary Alice
Nascimento : 1936-12-03, Indianola, Mississippi, USA
Morte : 2022-07-27
This mammoth documentary takes us through the making of both The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. On top of seeing many pre-production and production meetings, we are also invited on the sets for both films, and get an idea of how difficult it was to accomplish the nearly impossible.
Self
The making of Matrix Revolutions, The (2003) is briefly touched on here in this documentary. Interviews with various cast and crew members inform us how they were affected by the deaths of Gloria Foster and Aaliyah, and also delve into the making of the visual effects that takes up a lot of screen time. Written by Rhyl Donnelly
Oracle
Após enfrentar os sentinelas no mundo real, Neo (Keanu Reeves) tem sua mente presa em um local que fica entre a Matrix e a realidade, do qual apenas poderá sair com a ajuda de Trainman (Bruce Spence). Após perceberem que as ondas cerebrais de Neo são idênticas as de uma pessoa conectada à Matrix, Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) e Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) buscam a ajuda da Oráculo (Mary Alice) e Seraph (Sing Ngai). Trinity, Morpheus e Seraph vão em busca de Merovingian (Lambert Wilson), que possui controle sobre Trainman e pode libertar Neo. Após obterem sucesso no resgate, o trio se divide em duas missões: Enquanto Morpheus e a tripulação de duas naves parte rumo a Zion, na tentativa de ajudar no combate contra as máquinas, Neo e Trinity se dirigem à Cidadela das Máquinas.
Self
A look at playwright Eve Ensler's writing workshop inside Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women.
Eunice Stokes
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
Dorothy Cobb
A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-year-old.
Violet
A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career. Shot in brilliant color and dramatic black and white, first-time director Jeremy Stein's industrial New York City is a wonderland, roamed by witches and magical creatures, where survival hinges on the completion of a simple quest. Accompanied by an unlikely crew of strangers he meets along the way, Max trips through a modern-day Oz and rediscovers the easily forgotten value of seeing magic reflected in everyday life.
Dolores Williams
An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and forcing the characters to reexamine their identity and relationships in both comical and poignant situations.
Mattie
When her storyteller mother (Mary Alice) dies, attorney Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) returns to her Georgia hometown and is soon captivated by a local legend of the "Magic Man" (Blair Underwood). While looking for the source of the tale, Clara uncovers suprising family secrets. Czech filmmaker Ivan Passer directs this family drama that delves into the storytelling tradition of the Deep South. Blair Underwood and Helen Shaver co-star.
Rosa Lynn Sinclair
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.
Alice
Após uma infância sofrida, Lisa se isolou emocionalmente. O trabalho é sua primeira prioridade e o amor, a última. Após perceber a sua solidão, um homem sensível lhe envia, anonimamente, um enorme buquê de flores. .
Mary Jones
A Vietnam War–era drama chronicling the emotional journey of two unlikely friends who form a bond en route to Washington, D.C.
Ray investigates the murder of a judge.
Evelyn
Adolescente entediado vai para a praia passar o verão com a família. O que imaginava ser uma chatice se transforma em suas melhores férias ao encontrar no local uma garota linda e sedutora.
Altona
In 1948, Johns served as the outspoken spiritual leader of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Incensed at the racial injustice that pervaded the South, he was determined to fight for equality for all African Americans.
Lottie
Em 1963, no Texas, o fugitivo Butch (Kevin Costner) toma como refém um garoto (o adorável T. J. Lowther), e a dupla dá início a uma viagem pelo interior do Estado para fugir do Texas Ranger Red (Eastwood), que está em seu encalço. No encalço do policial, está a promotora Sally (Laura Dern), que tenta garantir os direitos dos envolvidos na perseguição. Enquanto até o FBI entra na história para deter o fugitivo, ele e seu novo amigo desenvolvem uma relação muito especial, feita de empatia, amizade e proteção. E com tempo limitado.
Mrs. Gordon
Michael Chapman (Michael J. Fox) foi um ator-mirim de grande sucesso, mas quando cresceu perdeu sua popularidade. Ele agora dirige, juntamente com seu irmão Ed Chapman (Nathan Lane), uma agência em Manhattan especializada em empresariar crianças, mas os negócios não estão bons. Tentando descobrir uma criança para um comercial de biscoito, Michael encontra acidentalmente Angie Vega (Christina Vidal), uma batedora de carteira que tem apenas dez anos e uma boa resposta sempre pronta. Ele acredita que Angie possa ser sua mais nova estrela e faz de tudo para consiguir que ela faça um teste para o comercial de biscoito.
School Teacher
Uma homenagem ao controverso ativista negro e líder da luta pela liberação negra. Ele chegou ao fundo do poço durante seu encarceramento nos anos 50, tornou-se um muçulmano negro e, mais tarde, líder da Nação do Islã. Seu assassinato em 1965 deixou um legado de autodeterminação e orgulho racial.
Annie Lamb
Sherman McCoy (Tom Hanks) é um grande corretor de Wall Street que ganha comissões milionárias e tem a sua vida modificada bruscamente quando ao ir com Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith), sua amante, para Manhattan, erra o caminho e vai parar no Bronx. Lá ele atropela um negro, fazendo com que este fato seja o ponto de partida da sua ruína e também o início da meteórica ascensão de Peter Fallow (Bruce Willis), um jornalista desconhecido.
Nurse Margaret
Bronx, 1969. Malcolm Sayer é um neurologista que conseguiu emprego em um hospital psiquiátrico. Lá ele encontra vários pacientes que aparentemente estão catatônicos, mas Sayer sente que eles estão só “adormecidos” e que se forem medicados da maneira certa poderão ser despertados. Assim pesquisa bem o assunto e chega à conclusão de que a L-DOPA, uma nova droga que já estava sendo usada para pacientes com o Mal de Parkinson, deve ser o medicamento ideal para este casos. No entanto, ao levar o assunto para o diretor, ele autoriza que apenas um paciente seja submetido ao tratamento.
Suzie
Com o tempo, ele começa a manipular os membros da família, provocando confusão e ódio.
Fannie Michael
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
Blind Lily
At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners fled, and the 10,000 blacks who lived there, almost all of whom were slaves, were freed in the first test of President Abraham Lincoln's dream of emancipation. Charlotte Forten, a 21-year-old educated black woman, helped the freed slaves to begin to build a new society. That experience forms the plot of this drama, based on Charlotte Forten's journals, which was telecast on "American Playhouse."
Linda Ganz
A teacher tries to overcome his frustration teaching a high-school that seems to be full of flunkies.
Cora
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
Lilah Dean
During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.
Mrs. Hauser
A mother afflicted with depression comes into conflict with own mother and children when she refuses to seek professional health care.
Beck
Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
Minnie Hayward
During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
Helen Mayfield
Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South. Eventually, the family rediscovers its African-American roots and elects to stay in their new rural surroundings.
Effie
Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.
Moms
A 1974 film based on the best-selling autobiography of Sonny Carson who joined a gang and committed petty crime before being sent to prison. After his release from prison he changes his life.
Alberta Warren
After moving to Chicago from the South just as the civil rights movement takes hold, the members of an African American family led by steely matriarch Weedy Warren have different reactions to the social upheaval surrounding them.