Mary Alice
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1936-12-03
Locus Natus: Indianola, Mississippi, USA
Et ut:
The Matrix Revolutions
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing...
release : 2003.11.05popularis : 35.486
Awakenings
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first...
release : 1990.12.04popularis : 25.55
Bed of Roses
The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies...
release : 1996.01.26popularis : 5.704
Sparkle
Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.
release : 1976.04.07popularis : 4.009
A Perfect World
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
release : 1993.11.24popularis : 20.257
The Mother
Paddy Chayefsky's 1954 play set in the Bronx tells the story of a recently widowed 66-year-old woman who seeks a job after 40 years of being a...
release : 1994.11.19popularis : 2.098
The Education of Sonny Carson
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...
release : 1974.07.17popularis : 1.775
Down in the Delta
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...
release : 1998.12.25popularis : 2.388
The Women of Brewster Place
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
release : 1989.03.19popularis : 4.446
The Matrix Recalibrated
The making of Matrix Revolutions, The (2003) is briefly touched on here in this documentary. Interviews with various cast and crew members inform us...
release : 2004.04.06popularis : 5.43
The Vernon Johns Story
In 1948, Johns served as the outspoken spiritual leader of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Incensed at the racial injustice...
release : 1994.01.15popularis : 3.1
To Sleep with Anger
An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
release : 1990.10.12popularis : 7.209
The Brass Ring
A mother afflicted with depression comes into conflict with own mother and children when she refuses to seek professional health care.
release : 1983.01.01popularis : 1.026
What I Want My Words to Do to You
An inside look at a writing workshop led by playwright and activist Eve Ensler, consisting of 15 women, most of whom were convicted of murder....
release : 2003.12.16popularis : 2.544
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
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...
release : 1982.02.17popularis : 4.634
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
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...
release : 1985.02.25popularis : 3.086
The Photographer
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...
release : 2000.04.15popularis : 6.002
Malcolm X
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...
release : 1992.11.18popularis : 27.632
Teachers
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still...
release : 1984.10.05popularis : 6.287
The Inkwell
The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976.
release : 1994.04.22popularis : 1.789
The Last Brickmaker in America
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...
release : 2001.09.23popularis : 3.325
Joshua's World
The pilot story, set in the small town of Strawee, Arkansas in the '30s, follows the experiences of Joshua Torrance, a doctor whose practice is...
release : 1980.08.21popularis : 1.229
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited...
release : 1999.04.14popularis : 2.507
Beat Street
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.
release : 1984.06.08popularis : 12.319
Lawman Without a Gun
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...
release : 1979.05.30popularis : 2.241
The Wishing Tree
When her storyteller mother (Mary Alice) dies, attorney Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) returns to her Georgia hometown and is soon captivated by a...
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 2.801
Life with Mikey
Michael Chapman, a former child TV star, runs a struggling talent agency specilizing in child acts. When a young girl off the street puts on a real...
release : 1993.06.04popularis : 8.623
Heading Home
A Vietnam War–era drama chronicling the emotional journey of two unlikely friends who form a bond en route to Washington, D.C.
release : 1995.04.08popularis : 2.858
Sty of the Blind Pig
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...
release : 1974.05.29popularis : 1.122
The Burly Man Chronicles
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...
release : 2004.12.04popularis : 1.203
Just an Old Sweet Song
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....
release : 1976.09.25popularis : 2.048
Sunshine State
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real...
release : 2002.06.21popularis : 4.815
The Killing Floor
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...
release : 1984.04.10popularis : 3.574
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
Ray investigates the murder of a judge.
release : 1995.03.20popularis : 1.999
The Bonfire of the Vanities
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and...
release : 1990.12.21popularis : 11.928