Movies starring Alfre Woodard
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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The time is the 24th century and the ship is the newly commissioned Enterprise-E. It’s captain, Jean-Luc Picard, has been ordered not to interfere in a combat between a Borg Cube and ships from the Federation. However, seeing the Federation is about to lose, Picard ignore his orders and take command of the defending fleet. With his knowledge of the weak spot of the Cube, they destroy it. However, a small part of it escapes and plot a course directly to Earth. The Enterprise chases it and enters a time distortion created by the Borg. They end up in the mid 21st century, their only chance of stopping the Borg from assimilating Earth being to help Zefram Cochrane make his famous first faster than light travel to the stars… |
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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The time is the 24th century and the ship is the newly commissioned Enterprise-E. It’s captain, Jean-Luc Picard, has been ordered not to interfere in a combat between a Borg Cube and ships from the Federation. However, seeing the Federation is about to lose, Picard ignore his orders and take command of the defending fleet. With his knowledge of the weak spot of the Cube, they destroy it. However, a small part of it escapes and plot a course directly to Earth. The Enterprise chases it and enters a time distortion created by the Borg. They end up in the mid 21st century, their only chance of stopping the Borg from assimilating Earth being to help Zefram Cochrane make his famous first faster than light travel to the stars… |
Beauty Shop (2005)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Gina Norris (Queen Latifah) is a long way from the Barbershop – she’s moved from Chicago to Atlanta so her daughter can attend a prestigious music school, and she’s made a name for herself at a posh salon with her cutting edge hairstyles. But when her egotistical boss, Jorge (Kevin Bacon), takes credit for her work, she leaves the salon with shampoo girl Lynn (Alicia Silverstone) in tow to open a shop of her own. Gina buys a rundown salon and inherits a motley group of headstrong stylists, a colorful clientele, and and a sexy piano-playing electrician, Joe (Djimon Hounsou). It’s a rocky road to fulfilling her dreams, but you can’t keep a good woman down. |
The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002)Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 |
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On an African safari, Eliza Thornberry discovers that thanks to a shaman, she can now talk to animals. When Eliza discovers that poachers in Africa’s Serengeti Desert plan to kill an elephant herd with an electrified fence, she and her chimpanzee friend Darwin must somehow find a way to stop them. |
American Violet (2008)Monday, October 5th, 2009 |
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A single African-American mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished town in Texas. |
Extremities (1986)Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 |
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An intended rape victim manages to escape from her attacker but leaves her purse behind. Worried that he may visit her house and finish what he has started, she contacts the police but they are unable to help, saying that she has no proof. “If he calls, let us know and we’ll send a man round!” A fat load of good that would be. Her worst fears are realised when, alone one day in the house, her attacker visits and attempts again to rape her. Circumstances allow her not only to resist the attack but to turn the tables and lock him away. And that is where her dilemma really starts. Does she release him and risk another attack? Does she go to the police and risk being called a liar? Or does she kill him – and become as low as him? |
The Family That Preys (2008)Monday, May 18th, 2009 |
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Alice Pratt, a hard working religious woman, raised her two daughters while managing a simple bar of her own. Her snobbish and arrogant daughter Andrea graduated in Economic Science and works in a construction corporation while her sister Pam stayed with Alice and worked in the bar. Andrea is married to construction worker Chris, who works in the same corporation as his wife but dreams of starting up his own business. However she is being unfaithful to him – with their boss William Cartwright. William is the son of Alice’s best friend, the wealthy Charlotte Cartwright. While Alice travels with Charlotte on a road trip, the ambition and infidelity of William triggers a series of events that will affect relationships in both families. |
Primal Fear (1996)Friday, May 8th, 2009 |
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Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer (Richard Gere) who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy (Edward Norton) accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest. |
Heart and Souls ()Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 |
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In 1959, Milo, Penny, Julia, and Harrison board a bus that later crashes, and all of them die but do not go to heaven right away. A baby is born in town at the same moment the bus crashes. The four dead passengers are tied to the baby, who would be named Thomas. For some reason Thomas can see them, and Thomas grows fond of them but when people think that Thomas might have something wrong with him, they decide not to let Thomas see them, which devastates him. Thirty years later Thomas is all grown and a little jaded when it comes to letting people into his life, and the four of them are still with him even though he can’t see them. One day they simultaneously appear to him, and stay by his side until each one completes the final task of their personal lives. |
Scrooged ()Thursday, December 4th, 2008 |
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Frank Cross is a U.S. television station that is planning a live adaptation of Dickens' Christmas. Frank of childhood was not particularly pleasant, and we really do not appreciate the spirit of Christmas. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realizes that must change. Frank Creu és un EUA estació de televisió que té previst viure una adaptació de Dickens "de Nadal. Frank de la infància no va ser especialment agradable, i el que realment no apreciem l'esperit de Nadal. Amb l'ajuda dels fantasmes del Nadal passada, present i futura, Frank s'adona que ha de canviar. |
K-PAX (2001)Monday, June 2nd, 2008 |
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Prot is a patient in a nervous clinic who claims to be from far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, to begin only, to doubt his own explanations. Prot ist ein Patient an einer Nervenklinik, der behauptet, von weit weg Planet zu sein. Sein Psychiater versucht, ihm zu helfen, nur zu beginnen, seine eigenen Erklärungen zu bezweifeln. |
The Forgotten ()Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 |
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A grieving mother, television Paretta, makes an effort to finish with the loss of her 9-year-old son. It is dazed if her psychiatrist and her husband say her that she has created eight years of recollections of a son whom she never had. But if she meets the father from of the friend of her son who has the same experience, television undertakes a mission to prove the existence of her son and her reason. Eine sich grämende Mutter, Fernseher Paretta, strengt sich an, mit dem Verlust ihres 9-jährigen Sohns fertig zu werden. Sie wird betäubt, wenn ihr Psychiater und ihr Mann ihr sagen, dass sie acht Jahre von Erinnerungen eines Sohns geschaffen hat, den sie nie hatte. Aber wenn sie den Vater von einem des Freunds ihres Sohns trifft, der dieselbe Erfahrung hat, unternimmt Fernseher eine Mission, die Existenz ihres Sohns und ihre Vernunft zu beweisen. |
Take the Lead ()Saturday, August 18th, 2007 |
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Based on a true history, the movie counts of the struggle of a teacher of dance, Pierre Dulain (Antonio Banderas), to give to a group of the problem a second possibility plays exploring his skills of dance. One night one astonishes that Dulain sees a boy, Rocha (Rob Brown) who destroys the car of his director of school. The next day Dulaine is going to the school to ask a job as a teacher of dance. The director has of confidence in the idea of Dulaine to help a little children (including the Rock) in the detention to the reform for classes of dance of hall of dance. Even the children, who prefer the hiphop or the blow, think that it is not a great idea. In spite of the students’ criticism in his academy of formal dance as well as of parents and sympathetic teachers who believe that the children need of more mathematical and less dance, Dulain catches the attention of the students with a tango session. After his initial indifference, they consequently compete in a dance contest; the important thing is not winning, but it does not doing a difference. Baseado em uma história verdadeira, o filme conta da luta de um professor de dança, Pierre Dulain (Antonio Banderas), para dar a um grupo do problema brinca uma segunda possibilidade explorando as suas habilidades de dança. Uma noite assombra-se que Dulain veja um rapaz, Rocha (Rob Brown) que destrói o carro do seu diretor de escola. No dia seguinte Dulaine vai à escola pedir um emprego como um professor de dança. O diretor tem um pouco de confiança na idéia de Dulaine de ajudar crianças (inclusive a Rocha) na detenção à reforma por classes de dança de salão de baile. Mesmo as crianças, que preferem o hiphop ou a pancada, pensam que não é uma grande idéia. Apesar da crítica de estudantes na sua academia de dança formal bem como de pais e professores simpatizantes que acreditam que as crianças precisam de mais matemática e menos dança, Dulain pega a atenção dos estudantes com uma sessão de tango. Depois da sua indiferença inicial, eles conseqüentemente competem em um concurso de dança; a coisa importante não está ganhando, mas fazendo uma diferença. |
How to Make an American Quilt ()Friday, May 4th, 2007 |
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The Finn is a young person doctorant, by finishing the thesis of a master and by getting ready for marriage to his fiancé Sam. But the thoughts of the end of free life and of a good time of potential summer, are obvious. She goes home to her grandmother, where, on the realisation of its wedding present by a group of friends to pad honeybee, the laugh, quarrels, love and advice lead her towards an examination more to eyes opened by its course. Le Finlandais est un jeune doctorant, en finissant la thèse d’un maître et en se préparant au mariage à son fiancé Sam. Mais les pensées de la fin de la vie libre et d’un bon temps d’été potentiel, s’imposent. Elle va à la maison à sa grand-mère, où, sur la réalisation de son cadeau de mariage par un groupe d’amis de matelasser-abeille, le rire, les querelles, l’amour et le conseil la mènent vers un examen plus aux yeux ouverts de son cours. |
Dinosaur ()Friday, March 16th, 2007 |
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Long before people on the planet appeared, dinosaurs ruled over the earth. On a small island except coast a clan of Lemuren finds a dinosaur egg, boy incubating. Because there are no parents, the Lemure pay attention to the newborn child, Aladar. Some years later a middle meteor goes down close to the island, and shockwave makes his inhabitants flee to the continent. There Aladar and his family meet other dinosaurs for the first time as well as real dangers. The destruction which is caused by the meteor here has also made a herd of different herbivores move to a distant valley, food and protection by the meat to eating predatory fishs after afterwards can make available. Since Aladar with a different understanding of the ways of the world grew up, his manner is accepted to help others, first within the cookers, but soon one does not prove that reason can be better than panic. Lange bevor Menschen auf dem Planeten erschienen, herrschten Dinosaurier über die Erde. Auf einer kleinen Insel außer Küste findet ein Clan von Lemuren ein Dinosaurier-Ei, Junge ausbrütend. Da es keine Eltern gibt, passen die Lemure auf den Neugeborenen, Aladar auf. Einige Jahre später geht ein mittlerer Meteor in der Nähe von der Insel hinunter, und der shockwave zwingt seine Einwohner, zum Kontinent zu fliehen. Dort treffen Aladar und seine Familie andere Dinosaurier zum ersten Mal sowie echte Gefahren. Die Zerstörung, die durch den Meteor hier verursacht ist, hat auch eine Herde von verschiedenen Pflanzenfressern gezwungen, sich zu einem entfernten Tal zu bewegen, das Essen und Schutz gegen die Fleisch fressenden Raubfische im Anschluss an danach zur Verfügung stellen kann. Seitdem Aladar mit einem verschiedenen Verstehen der Wege der Welt aufwuchs, wird seine Weise, anderen zu helfen, zuerst innerhalb der Herde nicht akzeptiert, aber bald wird es bewiesen, dass Grund besser sein kann als Panik. |
Wrinkle in Time, A ()Thursday, February 15th, 2007 |
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The film is based on a series of children by the same name. Meg and Charles Wallace are helped by Calvin and 3 interesting women, Mrs.. That, Mrs.. Whatsit and Mrs.. Who in the research of their father who disappeared during an experience on which he worked for the government. Their trips get them around the world from a place unlike other one. They have to learn to trust mutually and think that each differs. Le film est basé sur une série d’enfants par le même nom. Meg et Charles Wallace sont aidés par Calvin et 3 femmes intéressantes, Mme.. Que, Mme.. Whatsit et Mme.. Qui dans la recherche de leur père qui a disparu pendant une expérience sur laquelle il travaillait pour le gouvernement. Leurs voyages les prennent autour de l’univers à un endroit à la différence d’un autre. Ils doivent apprendre à fier l’un à l’autre et penser que chacun est différent. |














