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Alfre Woodard
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Alfre Woodard - filmography
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Take The Lead
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard, Ray Liotta
Director: Liz Friedlander
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Based on a true story, the film centres on the dashing Pierre Dulaine, an idealistic New York City ballroom dancer who was the subject of the runaway documentary hit MAD HOT BALLROOM (2005). After spying the desperate and violent actions of a young and angry high schooler named Rock, Dulaine ..read more »
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66%
from 15,140 members
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16 Blocks - HD DVD Version
(2006)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse
Director: Richard Donner
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Bruce Willis hits the mark as Jack Mosley, a broken-down New York City police detective assigned to escort a petty criminal from the precinct to the courthouse. The seemingly simple 16-Block journey becomes a test of character for them when Jack's ex-partners attempt to stop them. It's the gripping ..read more »
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67%
from 534 members
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16 Blocks
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse
Director: Richard Donner
Certificate: 
Bruce Willis hits the mark as Jack Mosley, a broken-down New York City police detective assigned to escort a petty criminal from the precinct to the courthouse. The seemingly simple 16-Block journey becomes a test of character for them when Jack's ex-partners attempt to stop them. It's the gripping ..read more »
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64%
from 41,825 members
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16 Blocks - BLU-RAY Version
(2006)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse
Director: Richard Donner
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16 BLOCKS is a tale of corrupt police officers, a Grand Jury witness, and one cop who is trying to do the right thing. Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) is weary. A lame leg and a love affair with alcohol make him a virtual joke at the NYPD. Tired and ready to head home, Mosley is assigned one last job ..read more »
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67%
from 2,307 members
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The Forgotten
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Julianne Moore, Gary Sinise, Anthony Edwards
Director: Joseph Ruben
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What if you were told that every moment you experienced and every memory you held dear never happened? Telly Paretta is tormented by the memory of her eight year old son Sam's death in a plane crash 14 months earlier. While trying to work through her grief, and her subsequent estrangement from her ..read more »
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58%
from 44,652 members
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Radio
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard
Director: Michael Tollin
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Set in South Carolina and spanning almost 40 years time beginning in the 1960s, RADIO is the moving story of the friendship between a mentally disabled man (played by Cuba Gooding Jr. in adulthood) and the high school football coach (Ed Harris) who gives him guidance, hope, and confidence. Growing ..read more »
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from 3,819 members
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The Core
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci
Director: Jon Amiel
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Weird phenomena lead a brilliant geophysics professor, Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart), to the discovery that the Earth's core has stopped revolving, ultimately resulting in severe natural disasters and radiation akin to that of a microwave--and the end of the world. Keyes' worst fears are confirmed ..read more »
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57%
from 10,501 members
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K-Pax
(2001)
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Alfre Woodard
Director: Iain Softley
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A mysterious man (Kevin Spacey) shows up in Grand Central Station claiming to be an alien, and is promptly taken to a mental institution. When he doesn't respond to medication, he begins seeing a psychiatrist (Jeff Bridges) who is fascinated by him. The man calls himself Prot (rhymes with "boat"), ..read more »
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from 9,380 members
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What's Cooking?
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl
Director: Gurinder Chadha
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What happens when families come together for Thanksgiving? Almost anything! Sit back, relax and enjoy this generous and charming tale of four very different families, as they cook up some tasty holiday surprises; love, betrayal and even a few outrageous secrets! And, ultimately, discover the ..read more »
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64%
from 266 members
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Holiday Heart
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ving Rhames, Alfre Woodard, Mykelti Williamson
Director: Robert Townsend
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Drama based on the Cheryl L. West stageplay. Holiday is a choirmaster during the day. At night he is a female impersonator. He becomes involved with a woman and her daughter who are trying to escape a life of drugs.
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52%
from 117 members
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Dinosaur
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Samuel E. Wright, Julianna Margulies
Director: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag
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With DINOSAUR, Disney breaks a new stride in the technological revolution of computer animation--combining computer-animated characters with digitally enhanced live-action landscapes. The effect is literally unbelievable and the clarity, realness, and definition of the pictures easily make the once ..read more »
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from 5,284 members
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Love And Basketball
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Alfre Woodard
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
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LOVE AND BASKETBALL is the powerful story of two next-door neighbors in Los Angeles who grow up loving basketball and, eventually, each other. Monica (Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy (Omar Epps) have wanted to be basketball stars since they were kids. Monica has had to work hard to establish herself as a ..read more »
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from 1,451 member
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Mumford
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Loren Dean, Hope Davis, Jason Lee
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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Mumford (Dean) relocates to a small town named, ironically enough, Mumford. He sets up shop as a psychologist and begins meeting the various lonely, troubled souls in the community. Pretty soon he's the most popular psychologist in town, for no concrete reason, other than his approach is not like ..read more »
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62%
from 299 members
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Primal Fear
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Certificate: 
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Powerful, media-hungry Chicago defense attorney Martin Vail (Richard Gere) gets in over his head when he takes the case of an altar boy (Edward Norton making his film debut) accused of murdering an archbishop. His opponent for the prosecution is his former protege and lover Janet Venable (Laura ..read more »
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from 4,666 members
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Star Trek 8 - First Contact
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, James Cromwell
Director: Jonathan Frakes
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The Borg have once again targeted the Federation; this time, their devious plot threatens not only the present, but Earth's past as well. While Commander Riker, Deanna Troi, and Geordi La Forge work hard on the surface of 21st-century Earth to keep history on schedule, the rest of the crew plays a ..read more »
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from 12,619 members
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How To Make An American Quilt
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
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Director Jocelyn Moorhouse's film adaptation of the novel by Whitney Otto stars Winona Ryder as Finn Dodd, a Berkeley graduate student on summer hiatus at her grandmother's home to work on her thesis and ponder a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Sam (Dermot Mulroney). Finn's grandma, Hy (Ellen ..read more »
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60%
from 2,022 members
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Crooklyn
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo
Director: Spike Lee
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From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
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67%
from 269 members
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Bopha!
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Danny Glover, Malcolm McDowell, Alfre Woodard
Director: Morgan Freeman
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Set in the apartheid era of South Africa. Micah is a black police sergeant who patrols a black township. Whilst he is proud of his achievements, he comes into conflict with the townspeople who view him as a traitor.
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59%
from 106 members
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Passion Fish
(1992)
Starring: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Lenore Banks
Director: John Sayles
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A soap-opera star who, paralysed after a car accident, sinks into a routine of drinking and watching TV all day at the Louisiana house where she grew up. Chantelle, the hired nurse, takes her on a journey of self-exploration and renewal.
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68%
from 56 members
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Grand Canyon
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Steve Martin, Danny Glover, Kevin Kline
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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Director Lawrence Kasdan's GRAND CANYON is an introspective tale of the unlikely friendship of two men from different worlds brought together when one (Kevin Kline) finds himself in jeopardy in the other's (Danny Glover) rough neighborhood. Other characters from disparate Los Angeles origins (..read more »
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61%
from 679 members
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Miss Firecracker
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins
Director: Thomas Schlamme
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Orphaned as a child, Carnelle has grown up in the shadow of her beautiful cousin, a proper southern belle and past Miss Firecracker. Carnelle sets her sights on the current crown and devises a scheme to enter and win the contest.
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50%
from 140 members
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Scrooged
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Bill Murray, John Forsythe, Carol Kane
Director: Richard Donner
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Frank (Bill Murray) is a network TV President and modern-day Scrooge. Always looking out for number one, the stingy, uncaring curmudgeon places everyone else's needs last. But his holiday spirit is about to get a rude awakening when he is visited by three zany ghosts, who force him to re-examine ..read more »
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68%
from 11,322 members
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Extremities
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Farrah Fawcett, James Russo, Diana Scarwid
Director: Robert M. Young
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A young woman, Marjorie (Farah Fawcett), terrorised by an obsessed rapist, fights back and manages to turn the tables of fate on her very surprised attacker. But after capturing her would-be assailant, is Marjorie's planned revenge going too far
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52%
from 161 members
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American Violet
Starring: Nicole Beharie, Alfre Woodard, Charles Dutton
Director: Tim Disney
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Based on real events and set in small town Texas in the year 2000, American Violet tells the story of Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie), a 24 year old African-American mother of four who is swept up in a drug raid and falsely accused based on the uncorroborated testimony of a single informant. Despite ..read more »
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from 2 members
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Blue Chips
Starring: Nick Nolte, Mary McDonnell, Matt Nover
Director: William Friedkin
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When a college basketball coach (Nick Nolte) has his first losing season, he must decide between his personal sense of values and the value of a winning team. Does he "buy" hot prospects and win, only to lose his self-respect? Featuring cameo appearances by real-life basketball legends Bobby Knight,..read more »
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48%
from 22 members
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Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Kathy Bates, Tyler Perry
Director: Tyler Perry
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Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout many years. Suddenly, their lives become mired in turmoil as their adult children's extramarital affairs, unethical business practices and a ..read more »
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The Core
to Watch Now
(2003)
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo
Director: Jon Amiel
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 135 minutes
The Earth has stopped rotating because of a change in the planet's core temperature. To restore the normal temperature, astronauts must travel to the center and detonate a nuclear bomb before the core superheats and destroys all life on the surface.
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55%
from 82 members
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What's Cooking?
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(2000)
Starring: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl
Director: Gurinder Chadha
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Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 100 minutes
The director of BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM invites you to a scrumptious Thanksgiving dinner that will all at once transport you to four different worlds and take you home again. On the menu are turkey, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie - but also spring rolls, macaroni & cheese, love betrayal, sibling ..read more »
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Primal Fear
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(1996)
Starring: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 130 minutes
"Serves up twist after twist." - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times "Gere creates one of the best performances of his career." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times. Guilty? Innocent? Those questions aren't for high-powered Chicago attorney Martin Vail (Richard Gere) to decide. His job is to defend - ..read more »
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77%
from 59 members
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Scrooged
to Watch Now
(1988)
Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Alfre Woodard
Director: Richard Donner
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 100 minutes
A network TV president is perhaps the most cold-hearted man ever, but his holiday spirit is given a painful booster shot by three vengeful ghosts. In this darkly comic updating of Charles Dicken's Christmas classic A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Bill Murray portrays Frank Cross, an evil, crass, executive who ..read more »
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Alfre Woodard facts
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You can have both - love and basketball... 24 May 2005
...me people every time I pick a blackflick. It was good to see Denis Haysbert and Alfre Woodard, though as I've always admired their acting.
The movie is about a boy and gi...
Crooklyn 8 October 2008
