Margaret Avery

Margaret Avery

Total Credits at Criticker: 23 (Actor)

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    The Color Purple
    A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.
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    White Man\
    The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos... (imdb)
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    Hell Up in Harlem
    A gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia. (imdb)
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    Magnum Force
    Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables. (imdb)
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    Lord Help Us
    Sometimes you find romance in places you'd never imagine! Unlucky-at-love Kayla and her best buddy Jewels help a recently widowed Baptist minister regain his flock and his life as they battle a scandalous rumor. Tale of love, family and friendship. (imdb)
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    Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
    A successful talk show host leaves Los Angeles to reunite with his family in the Deep South. (imdb)
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    Which Way Is Up?
    Richard Pryor is playing three different roles here. The first being a poor orange picker named Leroy Jones who gets laid off when by mistake he joins the worker's union during one of their demonstrations. Afterwards he is forced to leave his wife and family behind which also includes Leroy's father (also played by Pryor) to go to Los Angeles... (imdb)
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    The Lathe of Heaven
    George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and hypnotically induces Mr. Orr to change reality for the benefit of mankind --- with bizarre and frightening results. (imdb)
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    The Return of Superfly
    This is a sequel to the movie, Superfly. In it Nathan Purdee is now playing the role of Priest who was played by Ron O'Neal in the previous movie. In it Eddie, Priest's old partner, was killed. Now Priest who has been living in France and who is no longer a drug dealer, visits. And he sets to find the ones who killed Eddie, and to get them. (imdb)
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    Cool Breeze
    In this remake of The Asphalt Jungle, a band of thieves plans to use stolen diamonds to finance a ghetto bank. (TCM)
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    Terror at Red Wolf Inn
    College student Regina comes back to her room from class one day to discover she's won a getaway vacation at the quiet Red Wolf Inn. Before she can even call her parents to let them know where she'll be, the lodge owners arrange her transport and she soon finds herself with two other young women as guests of a kindly old couple. The place is beautiful and the food is fantastic, but something just doesn't seem right.
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    Cyborg 3: The Recycler
    Cyborg 3: The Recycler (1994) - Direct-to-Video
    Prepare yourself for the all too deadly future. Cash, the heroine of Cyborg 2, is living safe in the free zone. But not for long. Biomechanical problems are taking down her systems and a visit to a doctor in Silica confirms her worst fears. She is more then a marvel of cyborg technology. She is the first of her kind to become a creator - she is pregnant. (imdb)
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    Riverbend
    A black major (Steve James) and his men are on the run from a rigged court martial and hide out in a small Georgia town where a cruel white sheriff is terrorizing the black population. Together with one strong-willed woman they formulate a bold plan to fight for freedom and human rights. (imdb)
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    Heat Wave
    Heat Wave (1990) - TV Movie
    The promise of better race relations and economic prosperity lure a young man from Alabama to the Watts District of Los Angeles in 1965. After landing a job as a messenger for the L.A. Times, he becomes responsible for much of the reporting that won the paper a Pulitzer Prize when a minor traffic arrest by two white officers sets off a week of brutal rioting on August 11, 1965. (cduniverse.com)
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    Scott Joplin
    Scott Joplin (1977) - TV Movie
    Details the life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
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    Night Trap
    A man sells his soul to the devil and shows up on a killing spree at Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Leaving a trail of bodies, the apparently indestructible demon challenges the detective to stop him by the end of Mardis Gras or lose his soul. With help from a voodoo lady and his police captain, who remembers the demon from a past Mardis Gras, he gets closer, but risks the destruction of his ex-wife and newly found girlfriend. (imdb)
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    Being Mary Jane
    The life of a young black woman, her work, her family, and the popular talk show which she hosts. (imdb)
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    Proud Mary
    Mary (Taraji P. Henson) is a hitwoman working for an organized crime family in Boston. Mary's life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes awry.
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    Grand-Daddy Day Care
    A family man turns his house into a 'day care' center for senior citizens. (imdb)
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    The Sky Is Gray
    A young boy named James comes of age in 1940s Louisiana and grapples with what it means to be black during a time of racism and poverty. James's mother accompanies her son to town to see about the boy's nagging toothache, and his journey soon becomes an eye-opening odyssey.
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    Louis Armstrong: Chicago Style
    The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was framed on a drug charge, and his travels throughout Europe, where he first gained worldwide fame.
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    The Neighborhood
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    Is That Black Enough for You?!?
    Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.
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