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Oprah Winfrey - news / articles

Whitaker and Winfrey to play husband and wife? - 7 March 2012
-Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey are in talks to star as husband and wife in Precious director Lee Daniels' new movie.-The filmmaker has written a new screenplay called The Butler, about black staffer Eugene Allen who served in the White House for 34 yea

Winfrey eyeing big screen comeback - 16 February 2012
-TV titan Oprah Winfrey is in talks to make her big screen comeback 14 years after her last starring role.-The star, who wrapped up her daily chat show last year (11), is eyeing a movie return in a biopic of Eugene Allen, who served eight U.S. presidents as a butler in

Winfrey 'depressed' over Beloved flop - 14 January 2011
-Oprah Winfrey has opened up about the disappointment she felt after her 1998 movie Beloved bombed at the box office, admitting the flop film left her fighting depression.- -The media mogul produced and starred in the big screen adaption of Toni Morrison's spooky novel

Oprah Winfrey - what members say

The Color Purple review by from northampton, england.

book vs screenplay. 5 August 2005
...nsidered it to be a decent film with an especially outstanding performance from Oprah Winfrey. But I have read the book, several times, and this film lacks some of the most... Read customer review

Beloved review by from WIRRAL

12 April 2004
...hard to follow at first, but once it got going it was a very rivetting film and Oprah Winfrey was stunning. Not a bad film.... Read customer review

Oprah Winfrey - filmography

Oprah Winfrey - Past, Present And Future on DVD (2012)
Starring: Oprah Winfrey
Certificate:
This documentary charts the rise to prominence of Oprah Winfrey, the woman who sprang from modest means to become an Oscar-nominated actress, and the most successful and influential television personality in the United States for over two decades.

27% from 22 members

Bee Movie - Blu-ray (2007)
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Robert Duvall
Director: Simon Smith, Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith
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After a nine year hiatus, comedy maestro Jerry Seinfeld (SEINFELD) returns to our screens with the sweet-natured comedy BEE MOVIE. In it, he voices Barry B. Benson, a young bee who refuses to accept his fate as just another faceless worker in a colony of millions. Despite being warned never to ..read more »

65% from 3,067 members

Bee Movie on DVD (2007)
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Robert Duvall
Director: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith
Certificate:
Barry B. Benson (Seinfeld), a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa (Zellweger), a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually ..read more »

68% from 38,536 members

Bee Movie - HD (2007)
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Robert Duvall
Director: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith
Certificate:
After a nine year hiatus, comedy maestro Jerry Seinfeld (SEINFELD) returns to our screens with the sweet-natured comedy BEE MOVIE. In it, he voices Barry B. Benson, a young bee who refuses to accept his fate as just another faceless worker in a colony of millions. Despite being warned never to ..read more »

61% from 60 members
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Charlotte's Web on DVD (2006)
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey
Director: Gary Winick
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Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.

68% from 20,541 members

Emmanuel's Gift (2005)
Starring: Oprah Winfrey
Director: Lisa Lax, Nancy Stern
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If you are born disabled in Ghana, West Africa you are likely to be poisoned, or left to die by your family; and if you are not poisoned or left for dead, you're likely to be hidden away in a room; and if you're not hidden, you are destined to spend your lifetime begging on the streets. Of the ..read more »

24% from 5 members
Currently unavailable

Beloved on DVD (1998)
Starring: Irma P. Hall, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover
Director: Jonathan Demme
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Jonathan Demme directs this mysterious and potent drama based on Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. Years after the Civil War, in Ohio, a former slave named Sethe (Oprah Winfrey) lives in a small house on some land outside of Cincinnati with her grown daughter, Denver (..read more »

58% from 1,400 member

Before Women Had Wings (1997)
Starring: Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Barkin, Tina Majorino
Director: Lloyd Kramer
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A young girl turns to her neighbour for help when her own homelife becomes a nightmare. Their friendship allows the girl to experience a better life.

58% from 259 members
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There Are No Children Here (1993)
Starring: Oprah Winfrey, Keith David, Mark Lane
Director: Anita W. Addison
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The dramatic story of one woman's battle against the forces of crime. LaJoe Rivers (Oprah Winfrey)attempts to protect her two sons from a life of crime on the streets of Chicago.

100% from 1 member
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The Women Of Brewster Place on DVD (1988)
Starring: JackÚe, Oprah Winfrey, Cicely Tyson
Director: Donna Deitch
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Based on Gloria Naylor's novel, THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE is the rare made-for-tv feature that provides numerous deeply drawn and affecting characters and entertains. Aided immeasurably by star turns from Oprah, Cicely Tyson, and, of course, Jackee, director Donna Deitch's intensely moving film ..read more »

62% from 137 members

The Color Purple - Blu-ray (1985)
Starring: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her ..read more »

77% from 288 members

The Color Purple on DVD (1985)
Starring: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg's masterful adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Whoppi Goldberg (GHOST, SISTER ACT), in her impressive screen debut, as Celie, a sharecropper's daughter living in rural Georgia. The film opens in 1909 when Celie is a young girl, a victim of incest, ..read more »

72% from 10,245 members

The Oprah Winfrey Show - 20th Anniversar... (6 discs)
Starring: Oprah Winfrey
Director: none
Certificate:
Relive some the greatest moment of the Oprah Winfrey Show...

79% from 153 members
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Oprah Winfrey facts

5 most recent films

Oprah Winfrey - Past, Present And Future - 1.5 stars
Bee Movie - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Bee Movie - 3.5 stars
Bee Movie - HD - 3.0 stars
Charlotte's Web - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Oprah Winfrey Show - 20th Anniversary Collection - 4.0 stars
The Color Purple - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Color Purple - 3.5 stars
Bee Movie - 3.5 stars
Charlotte's Web - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Emmanuel's Gift - 1.0 stars
Oprah Winfrey - Past, Present And Future - 1.5 stars
There Are No Children Here - 5.0 stars
Beloved - 3.0 stars
Before Women Had Wings - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Paula Kelly - 5 times - show films
Jackée - 5 times - show films
Lynn Whitfield - 5 times - show films
Larenz Tate - 5 times - show films
Danny Glover - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Donna Deitch - 5 times - show films
Steve Hickner - 4 times - show films
Simon J. Smith - 4 times - show films
Steven Spielberg - 4 times - show films
Jonathan Demme - 1 times - show films