Tag: Drama

Reformation

Details
Year of Release: 1920
Genre: Drama
Rating: N/A
Runtime:  Not Available
Black & White
Silent
Studio: The Loyalty Film Company (f/k/a Democracy Film Corporation)
Director: Captain Leslie T. Peacocke

Cast
Sidney P. Dones (Carter Spencer)
Geraldine Steele (Clarice Penlow)

Synopsis
Carter Spencer has a taste for flirtation, gambling and drinking. He falls in love with choir singer, Clarice Penlow, who disapproves of his wild ways. At the onset of prohibition, Clarice urges Carter to become a Secret Service agent to enforce the new law and he complies out of love.

Notes
The Loyalty Film Co, formerly the Democracy Film Co., included both Whites and Blacks in its management and produced films with Black casts. It is unclear whether this film, its second production, was ever completed or released. Source(s): TCM.

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The Preacher’s Son

Drama in the Church

Release Date:  3/3/17; Netflix
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Running Time:  110 mins.
Studio: Tri Destined Studios, Urban Books Media
Director: Trey Haley

Cast: Christian Keyes (Dante Wilson), Clifton Powell (Bishop T.K. Wilson), Valarie Pettiford (First Lady Charlene Wilson), Drew Sidora (Tanisha), Vanessa Bell Calloway (Elena), Kellita Smith (Anita Emerson), Jaleel White (James Black), Anthony Montgomery (Reverend Reynolds), James Black (Deacon Emerson).

Details: This film is the first of New York Times bestselling author, Carl Weber’s “Drama in the Church” trilogy – The Preacher’s Son, The Choir Director and The First Lady.

Story:  Bishop T.K. Wilson, his wife and two children are a respectable family in their community. Yet the Wilson kids are fighting temptations and son Dante has thoughts other than taking over his father’s church. Source: IMDB.  Photo Source:  Facebook.

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The Good Life

The Good LifeRelease Date:  11/18/14 (DVD)
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  Unknown
Running Time: 125 mins.
Studio:  Redd Bone Productions; Maverick Entertainment Group
Directors:  Owen McManus, Jr. 
Cast:  Robert McGill, Jr. (Mikey), Janell Flugence (Alicia), Selam Workeneh (Sasha), James Mastio, Drew Benson, Jonathan Sorapuru (Kevin).

Details:  Women, money, power, greed, drugs, passion, desire, love, wealth, secrets, seduction…family, tragedy…choices. Protagonist Mikey searches for the alluring good life in an underworld where antagonist Fabian holds all power. Younger brother, Kevin, wants in, against Mikey’s will. Forced to choose between family and the good life, what will Mikey choose?  Source: Maverick Entertainment.

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Englewood

Englewooda/k/a Englewood: The Growing Pains in Chicago
Release Date:  10/7/14 (DVD)
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Running Time:  93 mins.
Studio:  Forever Foreign Films LLC; Maverick Entertainment Group
Director:  William Cochran
Cast:  David Cowan (Joshua), William Cochran (Dennis), Rodney Harvey (Calvin), Aayisha Chanel (Kiesha)

Story:  Englewood examines the lives of three young men in Chicago, growing up in the Englewood area, who all have different views on the world as well as their value in it. Source(s): Maverick Entertainment; Forever Foreign Films; Official Facebook page.

Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRL-Vy9vETQ&rel=0

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Pitbulls In A Skirt

Pitbulls In A SkirtRelease Date:  2/2/10
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Running Time:  109 mins.
Studio:  Cartel Urban Cinema
Directors:  Seven; Toy Styles; Charisse Washington
Cast:  Levar Miles-Turner, Shonda Mayes, Tia Shorts, Pierre Proctor, Steve Austin

Details:  If you make it through the gates which house Emerald City, one of D.C. s deadliest projects, you’ll run into four women who hold it down. And if you don’t belong, you’ll quickly find out what they have nestled inside the purses they keep closely to them. These females aren’t just pretty faces. They were taken out of their beds and placed on the throne by the hustler’s they loved.  Source:  IMDB.

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Go For Sisters

Go For Sisters 2Go For Sisters 1Release Date:  8/19/14, DVD;  11/8/13, Theaters (Limited)
Genre:  Drama/Crime
Rating:  NR
Running Time: 123 mins.
Studio: Variance Films
Director:  John Sayles
Cast:  LisaGay Hamilton (Bernice), Yolonda Ross (Fontayne), Edward James Olmos (Freddy Suarez), Hilary Barraford (Cindy), Mahershala Ali (Dez), Harold Perrineau (Wiley), Isaiah Washington (Vernell).

Story:  Bernice (LisaGay Hamilton) and Fontayne (Yolonda Ross) grew up so close people said they could “go for sisters”, but time sent them down different paths. Twenty years later, those paths cross: Fontayne is a recovering addict fresh out of jail, and Bernice is her new parole officer.

When Bernice’s son Rodney goes missing on the Mexican border, his shady associates all in hiding or brutally murdered, Bernice realizes she needs someone with the connections to navigate Rodney’s world without involving the police… and turns to her old friend. The pair enlist the services of disgraced ex-LAPD detective Freddy Suárez (Edward James Olmos) and plunge into the dim underbelly of Tijuana, forced to unravel a complex web of human traffickers, smugglers, and corrupt cops before Rodney meets the same fate as his partners.  Source:  Goforsisters.com, official site.

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