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Summary: Miguel Pinero's creative and turbulent life was cut short at age 40: a Tony Award nominee who did time at Sing-Sing, a volatile urban poet whose work is recognized as a precursor to rap and hip-hop, and a writer of hit TV shows.
Release Date: April 12, 2002
Genres: Drama, Biography
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 275,171
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Summary: In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 47,566,524
International: $ 16,083,005
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Summary: To make money fast the Browns come up with a plan to win a contest for "Watermelon Juice Afro Sheen," awarding $10,000 to whoever can find the juiciest, sweetest watermelon in the country.
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 12,344,000
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Summary: A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.
Release Date: October 20, 2000
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music
Runtime: 2 h 15 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 2,274,979
International: $ 188,671
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Summary: Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: R

Distributor: HBO Max
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 9,000,000
Domestic: $ 54,733,739
International: $ 68,500,000
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Summary: Frankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 100,492,203
International: $ 116,271,443
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Summary: A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
Runtime: 2 h 50 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 700,000
Domestic: $ 7,830,611
International: $ 4,000,000
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Summary: A perpetual state of welfare exists in the U.S., creating a form of modern slavery for a large percentage of African-Americans. Rev. C.L. Bryant presents an insightful and compelling look at how freedom can be restored.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: PG

Production: Ground Floor Video
Countries: United States, Israel
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 100,000
Domestic: $ 71,737
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Summary: With hopes of becoming a doctor and not a product of her environment, a Brooklyn teenager is faced with numerous challenges that threaten her dreams.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 100,000
Domestic: $ 479,169
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Summary: On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Runtime: 1 h 54 min
MPAA: R

Countries: United States, France
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,441,705
International: $ 2,799,951
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Summary: In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,100,000
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Summary: The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don't get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board's token black man, Putney S...
Runtime: 1 h 24 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 200,000
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Summary: In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
Runtime: 1 h 29 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Movie budget: $ 133,000
Domestic: $ 371,111
International: $ 79,048
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Summary: Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
Release Date: October 24, 2002
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1 h 27 min
MPAA: R

Country: Israel
Language: Hebrew
Domestic: $ 421,454
International: $ 338,864
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Summary: Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: R

Production: Grandelusion
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 300,000
Domestic: $ 220,165
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Summary: A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn't what it seems.
Release Date: November 21, 1997
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: R

Country: Canada
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 5,000,000
Domestic: $ 3,263,585
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Summary: Libby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that...
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 208,588
International: $ 4,882,264
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Summary: After years of hiding, the notorious American leftist radical, Abbie Hoffman, discusses his life, his cause and the opposition he endured.
Runtime: 1 h 47 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 76,424
International: $ 2,664
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Summary: A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 35,000,000
Domestic: $ 18,337,722
International: $ 6,873,453
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Summary: A welfare recipient marries his mother.
Runtime: 1 h 03 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000