Lynn Whitfield
4) Solace
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A 17 year-old orphan is shipped off to her estranged grandmother and she plots her escape while navigating a foreign environment, new friendships and a hidden eating disorder. Winner of Best Narrative Feature at the **New Orleans Film Festival**. Winner of Best Enssemble Cast at the **Los Angeles Film Festival**.
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In addition to being saddled with an unruly foster teen, Madea hastwo troubled nieces to deal with. Lisa is engaged to an abusive and controllinginvestment banker and Vanessa is finding it difficult to open herself to theaffection of a bus driver/artist Frankie because of childhood abuse. Wreakinghavoc on both of the girls's lives is their mother Victoria.
9) The rebound
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English
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Hothead college basketball coach Roy McCormick shows more interest in endorsement deals than in winning games. After an on-court meltdown, the hot-tempered college hoops coach is expelled from the league. In order to return, Coach Roy needs to prove he can win games without losing his cool, and his last chance is to take on a losing junior high school team of wise-cracking misfits. As Roy struggles to turn his lovable losers into champions, he discovers...
11) Caldecott favorites featuring The snowy day, Antarctic antics, Make way for ducklings --and more!
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The collection of Caldecott winners include The Ezra Jack Keats Collection; Antarctic Antics; and Make Way for Ducklings. The stories are narrated by John Lithgow, Laura Dern, and Lynn Whitfield.
14) Eve's bayou
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Roz Batiste is a beautiful and dedicated mother of three, who is forced to admit that her family is falling apart due to her philandering husband Louis. Her younger daughter, Eve, witnesses one of her father's infidelities. Struggling to make sense of what she has seen, Eve turns to her older sister Cisely, who dismisses her in fear of the truth, and then to her Aunt Mozelle, a known psychic and rumored black widow. Unable to find the understanding...
15) Eve's bayou
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A woman remembers the summer her father, a small-town Louisiana doctor and philanderer, died.
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March on!: Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister recalls the day she heard him deliver his "I have a dream" speech.
Martin's big words: Introduces the ideas and accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr. using some of his own words.
Rosa: Recounts how Rosa Parks set the events of the civil rights movement in motion by refusing to give up her seat on an Alabama city bus.
Henry's freedom box: A fictionalized story about a young slave who mails himself to...
18) Love songs
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Trilogy of stories loosely related to one another, about people living in an urban neighborhood. Originally aired on the Showtime Network.
19) The North Star
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For black slaves Big Ben and Moses, the only thing worse than the daily cruelty of life on a Virginia plantation is the fear of being hunted down and tortured as runaways. But when Ben learns he is about to be sold to a new owner, he and Moses make the desperate choice to run. Evading brutal slave hunters and with only the light of the North Star as their guide, the pair make the grueling journey.
20) Somebody's child
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A divine twist of fate causes Constance Rivers and her son Douglas to open their hearts to ex-convict, Benjamin Sparks. While on the brink of losing her battle with kidney disease, Constance's near death confession causes her past and present to instantly collide. Somebody's Child is a heartwarming story about a son losing hope, a mother gaining faith, and God's divine and perfect plan.