Margaret Avery

Filmography

Margaret Avery - filmography

White Man's Burden (1995)
Starring: John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch
Director: Desmond Nakano
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The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While delivering a package for black CEO Thaddeus Thomas, ..read more »

51% from 49 members
Currently unavailable

The Return Of The Superfly on DVD (1990)
Starring: Nathan Purdee, Margaret Avery, Leonard Thomas
Director: Sig Shore
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Ex-drug dealer, Superfly, is persuaded to return to America in order to trap the current dealers...

37% from 59 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 10,246 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

Which Way Is Up? on DVD (1977)
Starring: Lonette McKee, Dolph Sweet, Richard Pryor
Director: Michael Schultz
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A seriocomic tale of love, seduction, and betrayal in the strife-torn farm country of central California. Richard Pryor plays several roles here, most significantly a migrant worker who works his way up the ranks in the agricultural company controlling one of the farms.

50% from 27 members

White Man's Burden - 2.5 stars
The Return Of The Superfly - 2.0 stars
The Color Purple - 3.5 stars
The Color Purple - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Which Way Is Up? - 2.5 stars

The Color Purple - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Color Purple - 3.5 stars
White Man's Burden - 2.5 stars
The Return Of The Superfly - 2.0 stars
Which Way Is Up? - 2.5 stars

Which Way Is Up? - 2.5 stars
The Return Of The Superfly - 2.0 stars
White Man's Burden - 2.5 stars
The Color Purple - 3.5 stars
The Color Purple - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

Whoopi Goldberg - 4 times - show films
Akosua Busia - 4 times - show films
Leonard Jackson - 4 times - show films
Adolph Caesar - 4 times - show films
Oprah Winfrey - 4 times - show films

Steven Spielberg - 4 times - show films
Sig Shore - 1 times - show films
Michael Schultz - 1 times - show films
Desmond Nakano - 1 times - show films
Larry Cohen - 1 times - show films