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Crowbar (2023)
Character: N/A
A short film, inspired by true stories, that brings forward the dramas and challenges of life growing up as a gay male between him and his mother - struggling with respect issues and acceptance. It follows the story of Nathan and his mother Donna as they grapple with their complex relationship after he comes out as gay. Nathan, who just graduated college with his fine arts degree has his graduation party crashed by his mother. While he asks her to leave she calls on him to step aside as their animosity for each others choices and ways come head to head. A surprise ending shows how respect may prevail amongst their differences.
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The Ditchdigger's Daughters (1997)
Character: Yvonne
Based on the memoirs of Yvonne S. Thornton, this heartwarming, inspirational family drama centers on a poor black laborer who wanted his six daughters to grow up to be doctors.
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Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine (2016)
Character: Dr. Leffie
Lily, a failing and fairly crap stand-up comedian, falls for Spike, a sexy physicist who enlists her to work on his teleportation machine, changing her life forever.
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The Opportunists (2000)
Character: Kevin's Partner
Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she's saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up on his doorstep, the two team up for one last heist.
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Music of the Heart (1999)
Character: Mrs. Adisa
After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.
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Our Song (2000)
Character: Dawn Clifton
Three best friends, once inseparable, drift apart when their school closes down and the realities of adult life dawn on them.
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Brown Sugar (2002)
Character: Trish Hofmann
Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a national magazine and he is a successful, though unfulfilled, hip-hop record company executive. Both come to realize that their true life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned that day on the corner.
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Frankie & Alice (2010)
Character: Pearl
A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
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Twelve (2010)
Character: Nurse
A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.
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The Immortal Jellyfish (2020)
Character: Linda
Denny, an off-the-grid oddball who calls a nurse hot-line for help with his nasty "fire piss" problem. When a dying man washes ashore, Denny and nurse Linda get caught up in the drama and become madcap partners in crime-solving.
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The Piano Lesson (1995)
Character: Grace
1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it. This is a glimpse of the conditions for African-Americans as well as some of the attitudes and influences on their lives. But whether he is able to sell the piano so that he can get enough money to buy some property and "no longer have to work for someone else" involves the story (or lesson) that the piano has to show him.
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Rob Peace (2024)
Character: Jacinta Johnson
An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and injustices from his past to threaten his future.
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