Loretta Devine
Loretta Devine (born August 21, 1949) is an American actress, singer and voice actor. She is known for numerous roles across stage and screen. Her most high profile roles include Lorrell Robinson in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls, the long-suffering Gloria Matthews in the film Waiting to Exhale, and her recurring role as Adele Webber on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2011.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 19.67 |
| Birthday | 1949-08-21 |
| Place of Birth | Houston, Texas, USA |
| Also Known As |
1996
The Preacher's Wife
5.787/216
Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived nei...
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The Preacher's Wife
1997
Hoodlum
6.391/182
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 Harle...
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Hoodlum
1992
Class Act
6.082/104
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 ot...
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Class Act
1995
Waiting to Exhale
6.2/156
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 l...
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Waiting to Exhale
1999
Love Kills
2/1
A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills millionaire.
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Love Kills
2000
Urban Legends: Final Cut
4.858/455
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, some...
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Urban Legends: Final Cut
1998
Urban Legend
5.711/1247
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
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Urban Legend
2010
Death at a Funeral
5.826/943
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 dru...
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Death at a Funeral
2006
Dirty Laundry
5.4/7
After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spiri...
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Dirty Laundry
2010
Lottery Ticket
5.6/168
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 wi...
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Lottery Ticket
2008
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
5.348/1023
A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner Viv's niece, Rachel, gets lost and must rely on her fri...
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2008
First Sunday
5.669/225
Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they...
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First Sunday
2007
This Christmas
6.531/124
This year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings have come home for the first time in years and the...
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This Christmas
1991
Livin' Large!
5.8/10
A young black reporter begins to lose his identity.
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Livin' Large!
2009
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
6/196
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange ta...
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2004
Woman Thou Art Loosed
5.833/18
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.
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Woman Thou Art Loosed
2010
For Colored Girls
6.785/72
About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of tw...
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For Colored Girls
2011
Madea's Big Happy Family
6.8/134
When Shirley, Madea's niece, receives distressing news about her health, the only thing she wants is her family gathered around her. However, Shirley'...
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Madea's Big Happy Family
2011
Politics of Love
4.5/2
Politics makes strange bedfellows, but never stranger than when a sexy, savvy, African-American conservative Republican reluctantly falls for his Demo...
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Politics of Love
1999
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
6.7/33
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. Ye...
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
2011
Jumping the Broom
6/196
Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.
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Jumping the Broom
1997
The Price of Kissing
3/2
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 youn...
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The Price of Kissing
1998
Down in the Delta
6.4/23
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...
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Down in the Delta
1997
Lover Girl
5.4/5
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 tak...
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Lover Girl
1997
Clover
4.5/4
Sara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten dies. So Sara has to take care of Gaten's daughter, C...
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Clover
1988
Sticky Fingers
7.3/5
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...
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Sticky Fingers
2013
Khumba
6.006/252
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 wi...
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Khumba
2012
In the Hive
5.2/4
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 thrus...
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In the Hive
2014
Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way
5/1
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 an...
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Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way
1999
Funny Valentines
7.3/5
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.
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Funny Valentines
2005
Crash
7.218/3372
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a...
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Crash
2001
Kingdom Come
6.6/26
When her husband keels over from a stroke, Raynelle Slocumb calls the entire clan together to remember their dearly departed. Family tensions reach a...
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Kingdom Come
1991
Caged Fear
3.2/2
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 fema...
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Caged Fear
2000
Best Actress
1.5/3
A Hollywood writer becomes embroiled while investigating into the lives of five fictitious actresses all nominated for the Academy Award for best actr...
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Best Actress
2014
You're Not You
7.422/778
A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.
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You're Not You
1990
Stanley & Iris
6.4/142
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 inabili...
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Stanley & Iris
2001
I Am Sam
7.576/2220
Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own....
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I Am Sam
2015
Back to School Mom
5.3/3
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...
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Back to School Mom
2014
Welcome to Me
5.857/290
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 ta...
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Welcome to Me
2000
Freedom Song
5.8/5
Freedom Song 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...
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Freedom Song
2016
Caged No More
4.4/7
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...
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Caged No More
2016
Norm of the North
4.7/328
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 N...
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Norm of the North
2013
A Very Larry Christmas
0/0
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...
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A Very Larry Christmas
2006
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
6.5/13
In the Lifetime® movie, THE FANTASIA BARRINO STORY: LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE, a single teenage mother overcomes all odds - sexual abuse, poverty and il...
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Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
2016
Grandma's House
5.333/3
Based upon the true story of Kimberley T. Zulkowski's Grandmother, Margie Ree Harris. "Grandma's House" gives a compelling insight into how the Execut...
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Grandma's House
2016
Brett Gelman's Dinner in America
3.5/2
Brett Gelman invites four African-American panelists to discuss racism in the United States.
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Brett Gelman's Dinner in America
2013
Saving Westbrook High
6/2
A diverse community, an ambitious newly-appointed principal and a handful of committed teachers come together to save a once popular suburban school i...
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Saving Westbrook High
2017
Chapter & Verse
7.3/6
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 u...
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Chapter & Verse
2015
The Sound and the Fury
5/28
A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
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The Sound and the Fury
2000
What Women Want
6.451/3822
Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking...
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What Women Want
2017
Naked
5.714/1229
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 forc...
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Naked
1993
The American Clock
6.5/4
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 cra...
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The American Clock
1993
Amos & Andrew
5.401/149
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...
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Amos & Andrew
2011
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
5.9/374
Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challen...
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
2018
Behind the Movement
0/0
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 Boy...
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Behind the Movement
2020
Always and Forever
5.8/18
After a tragedy reunites Nicole with her childhood friends, they each find themselves in danger, targets of a deranged stalker. Nicole knows this can'...
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Always and Forever
2018
Jingle Belle
6.1/17
Every year, Isabelle (Tatyana Ali) and her high school sweetheart Mike (Cornelius Smith Jr.), rocked their small town’s annual Christmas Eve Pageant w...
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Jingle Belle
2018
The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special
5/1
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 s...
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The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special
2018
Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend
7/1
This two and a half hour documentary takes a look at the making of the 1998 horror film Urban Legend.
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Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend
2005
King's Ransom
4.816/49
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 p...
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King's Ransom
2019
The Trap
5/68
A man returns home to Atlanta to help and turn around his family's struggling restaurant with the help of a new chicken recipe.
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The Trap
1999
The Breaks
6.5/21
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...
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The Breaks
2002
Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs
10/1
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,...
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Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs
2021
The Starling
6.957/279
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...
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The Starling
2019
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
7.258/66
Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history...
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Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
2019
A Sweet Christmas Romance
7/24
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 c...
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A Sweet Christmas Romance
2015
For the Love of Ruth
10/1
Ruth Summerling has spent the majority of her life struggling to find her way and comes to some understanding of where exactly it is she belongs.
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For the Love of Ruth
2019
A Family Reunion Christmas
6.1/25
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.
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A Family Reunion Christmas
1989
Parent Trap III
6/20
When Jeff plans to marry again, his triplet daughters Megan, Lisa and Jessie try to bring him together with Susan.
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Parent Trap III
1983
Anna to the Infinite Power
5.1/11
Anna Hart was always an odd child, a genius, a shoplifter, desperately afraid of flickering lights, with strange prophetic dreams. Simultaneously, sev...
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Anna to the Infinite Power
2014
Comeback Dad
6.8/6
A man tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
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Comeback Dad
2018
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
6.3/3389
A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl in high school and the biggest loser must come together to win ov...
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Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
2009
Spring Breakdown
5.5/93
Three women in their thirties head to a popular Spring Break destination and try to relive the Spring Break they never had.
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Spring Breakdown
2019
Postmarked
9/2
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...
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Postmarked
2020
Spell
6.455/378
A father survives a plane crash in rural Appalachia, but becomes suspicious of the elderly couple who take him in to nurse him back to health with the...
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Spell
2021
Queen Bees
6.327/49
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 flirtatiou...
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Queen Bees
1988
Little Nikita
5.91/100
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...
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Little Nikita
2007
Cougar Club
3.927/41
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 f...
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Cougar Club
1981
Will
0/0
A girls’ basketball coach is fighting through a heroin addiction while mentoring a 12-year-old street kid adopted by Will and his wife.
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Will
2022
Mack & Rita
5.745/53
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.
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Mack & Rita
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
0/0
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...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
1999
Jackie's Back!
7.2/4
A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback concert.
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Jackie's Back!
2021
Christmas in Harmony
5.2/12
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 lo...
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Christmas in Harmony
1997
Don King: Only in America
6.4/9
A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager.
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Don King: Only in America
Urban Legend
0/0
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 dark...
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Urban Legend
2022
Doc McStuffins: The Doc Is 10!
4/1
Doc McStuffins gets help from her friends and fans to make this her best birthday ever!
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Doc McStuffins: The Doc Is 10!
2022
All I Didn't Want for Christmas
7.1/8
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....
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All I Didn't Want for Christmas
2023
A Snowy Day in Oakland
8.167/6
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...
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A Snowy Day in Oakland
2006
Dreamgirls
6.747/967
A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
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Dreamgirls
2000
Punks
4.7/6
The life and times of a group of twentysomething black gay men living in West Hollywood.
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Punks
2021
Christmas Déjà Vu
6/3
A Christmas angel grants a wish to a Christmas hater, to have her life as a singer.
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Christmas Déjà Vu
1991
The Colored Museum
0/0
Ten satirical sketches written by George C. Wolfe use drama, comedy and music to examine black stereotypes and express the need for African-Americans...
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The Colored Museum
2022
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
7/152
A new school year, his brother Rodrick teases him over and over and over and over again. Will Greg manage to get along with him? Or will a secret ruin...
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2015
Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie
10/1
No one gives better cuddles than Doc's warm and fuzzy best friend! She's a princess and a ballerina, and she's always there for toys that need an extr...
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Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie
Bull Street
0/0
A woman faces the battle of her life when her estranged father's family tries to evict her and her grandmother from the only home she has ever known.
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Bull Street
Lost & Found in Cleveland
0/0
A new American fable about the post-Industrial American Dream in the Industrial Midwest - a slice-of-life depiction over a 24-hour period that follows...
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Lost & Found in Cleveland
Break the Cycle
0/0
Two Memphis brothers' childhood is impacted by tragedy. They are raised by their grandmother but follow different paths into adulthood.
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Break the Cycle
2017
Broadway: The Next Generation
0/0
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
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Broadway: The Next Generation
1996
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
7.2/50
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison...
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Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
2016
No Regrets
7.143/7
This film is a romantic comedy about a stewardess (Calhoun), who after 12 years of dating (Joseph) as college sweethearts (along with several marriage...
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