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Kinky Babylon (1979)
Character: Voice
Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Edgar, a Jamaican American who is smoking marijuana, drinking whiskey, and making love to his girlfriend Sam (Samantha) in a car overlooking the city, witnesses a Mercedes-driving European man who quotes Steppenwolf murder a girl. Edgar reports the murder and identifies the murderer from photographs, but the murderer works with the police to frame Edgar as "the moonlight rapist." At the end of the film, Sam, who previously wore glasses and a blonde wig, is seen discarding the glasses and wig and escaping with Edgar, over the protests of her mother. Among the photographs shown Edgar by the police for identification purposes are photographs of Bob Rosen and Geoff Gilmore.
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Welcome to the Family (2015)
Character: Nana Yoki
Welcome to the Family centers on Stella, an internet producer (Kali Hawk), who has to learn how to balance her personal and professional lives. She utilizes her family reunion to not only reveal her engagement to fiancée Quinton (B.J. Britt), but also to prove she can host her own web series. Stella is blinded by her own ambition, as each family member's antics and escapades hit the World Wide Web. Caught up in the world of media mania and surrounded by a crazy cast of relatives, Stella learns that her fiancée Quinton is her cousin. Captured by cameras for the world to see, the couple's relationship is thrown into turmoil as Stella's web series turns into a social media hit.
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Honky (1971)
Character: Mrs. Smith
Black girl from rich family loves white boy from poor family.
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Lord Help Us (2007)
Character: Luella Porter
Comedy about faith and family directed by Shavar Ross. When a recently widowed Baptist preacher (Bill Toliver) loses the respect of his congregation over rumors of his impending marriage to a woman 45 years younger, best friends hatch a plan to help him regain his flock.
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Sweet Jesus, Preacherman (1973)
Character: Mrs. Greene
A Black hit man poses as a Baptist preacher in a ghetto church. He decides to take over the local rackets.
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A Mother's Love (2011)
Character: Georgia Knealy
Regina Reynolds is a strong black woman in the truest sense -- but her taste for the good life doesn't necessarily include her husband, Marcus, or her daughter, Monica. It's going to take a mother's unconditional love to pray Regina down to earth.
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Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love (1979)
Character: Guide
A young couple is overjoyed when they find out that, after having had two girls, the wife is pregnant again, and this time it will be a son. However, the boy turns out to autistic. Unhappy with the diagnoses and treatments available, they decide to work out their own therapy program for their son.
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Coma (1978)
Character: Nurse
A young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.
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Baby Boy (2001)
Character: Elderly Woman
The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different women-Yvette and Peanut but still lives with his own mother. He can't seem to strike a balance or find direction in his chaotic life.
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