Mary Alice
Biography: Mary Alice was born on December 3, 1936 in Indianola, Mississippi, USA to parents Ozelar Jurnakin (Smith) and Sam Smith. She was an actress, known for The Matrix Revolutions (2003), Awakenings (1990) and Malcolm X (1992). She taught in Elementary School before her acting career took off. When she was still a struggling actress doing stage plays, she made a living doing her castmate's laundry for a salary of $200 a week. She was a lifelong liberal Democrat, feminist, and civil rights activist. Was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2000. She retired from acting in 2005. She died of natural causes on July 27, 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. Upon her death, she was buried with her siblings at Oak Wood Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, in regard for her last wishes.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 03, 1936
Deathday: July 27, 2022
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The Matrix Revolutions
2003-11-05
The Matrix Revolutions
Overview: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-05
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Awakenings
1990-12-04
Awakenings
Overview: Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-04
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Bed of Roses
1996-01-26
Bed of Roses
Overview: The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies clash with her workaholic ways, they soon find out that sometimes, it's harder than it seems for love to conquer all.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Sparkle
1976-04-07
Sparkle
Overview: Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-07
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A Perfect World
1993-11-24
A Perfect World
Overview: A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-24
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The Mother
1994-11-19
The Mother
Overview: Paddy Chayefsky's 1954 play set in the Bronx tells the story of a recently widowed 66-year-old woman who seeks a job after 40 years of being a homemaker.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-19
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The Education of Sonny Carson
1974-07-17
The Education of Sonny Carson
Overview: A 1974 film based on the best-selling autobiography of Sonny Carson who joined a gang and committed petty crime before being sent to prison. After his release from prison he changes his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-17
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Down in the Delta
1998-12-25
Down in the Delta
Overview: A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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The Women of Brewster Place
1989-03-19
The Women of Brewster Place
Overview: A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-19
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The Matrix Recalibrated
2004-04-06
The Matrix Recalibrated
Overview: The making of Matrix Revolutions, The (2003) is briefly touched on here in this documentary. Interviews with various cast and crew members inform us how they were affected by the deaths of Gloria Foster and Aaliyah, and also delve into the making of the visual effects that takes up a lot of screen time. Written by Rhyl Donnelly
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-06
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The Vernon Johns Story
1994-01-15
The Vernon Johns Story
Overview: In 1948, Johns served as the outspoken spiritual leader of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Incensed at the racial injustice that pervaded the South, he was determined to fight for equality for all African Americans.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-15
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To Sleep with Anger
1990-10-12
To Sleep with Anger
Overview: An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
1982-02-17
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
Overview: Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-17
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What I Want My Words to Do to You
2003-12-16
What I Want My Words to Do to You
Overview: An inside look at a writing workshop led by playwright and activist Eve Ensler, consisting of 15 women, most of whom were convicted of murder. Through a series of exercises and discussions, the women delve into their pasts and explore the nature of their crimes and the extent of their own culpability. The film culminates in an emotionally charged prison performance of the women's writing by acclaimed actors Mary Alice, Glenn Close, Hazelle Goodman, Rosie Perez, and Marisa Tomei.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-16
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The Brass Ring
1983-01-01
The Brass Ring
Overview: A mother afflicted with depression comes into conflict with own mother and children when she refuses to seek professional health care.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Teachers
1984-10-05
Teachers
Overview: A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-05
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The Photographer
2000-04-15
The Photographer
Overview: A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career. Shot in brilliant color and dramatic black and white, first-time director Jeremy Stein's industrial New York City is a wonderland, roamed by witches and magical creatures, where survival hinges on the completion of a simple quest. Accompanied by an unlikely crew of strangers he meets along the way, Max trips through a modern-day Oz and rediscovers the easily forgotten value of seeing magic reflected in everyday life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-15
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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985-02-25
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Overview: At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners fled, and the 10,000 blacks who lived there, almost all of whom were slaves, were freed in the first test of President Abraham Lincoln's dream of emancipation. Charlotte Forten, a 21-year-old educated black woman, helped the freed slaves to begin to build a new society. That experience forms the plot of this drama, based on Charlotte Forten's journals, which was telecast on "American Playhouse."
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-25
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Malcolm X
1992-11-18
Malcolm X
Overview: A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-18
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The Inkwell
1994-04-22
The Inkwell
Overview: The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-22
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The Last Brickmaker in America
2001-09-23
The Last Brickmaker in America
Overview: A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-year-old.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-23
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Joshua's World
1980-08-21
Joshua's World
Overview: The pilot story, set in the small town of Strawee, Arkansas in the '30s, follows the experiences of Joshua Torrance, a doctor whose practice is jeopardized by his opposition to racism as he attempts to treat blacks as equals.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-21
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Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
1999-04-14
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
Overview: An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and forcing the characters to reexamine their identity and relationships in both comical and poignant situations.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-14
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Beat Street
1984-06-08
Beat Street
Overview: An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-08
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Lawman Without a Gun
1979-05-30
Lawman Without a Gun
Overview: During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-30
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The Wishing Tree
1999-01-01
The Wishing Tree
Overview: When her storyteller mother (Mary Alice) dies, attorney Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) returns to her Georgia hometown and is soon captivated by a local legend of the "Magic Man" (Blair Underwood). While looking for the source of the tale, Clara uncovers suprising family secrets. Czech filmmaker Ivan Passer directs this family drama that delves into the storytelling tradition of the Deep South. Blair Underwood and Helen Shaver co-star.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Life with Mikey
1993-06-04
Life with Mikey
Overview: Michael Chapman, a former child TV star, runs a struggling talent agency specilizing in child acts. When a young girl off the street puts on a real performance after he catches her picking his pocket, he may have just found the next big thing.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-04
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Heading Home
1995-04-08
Heading Home
Overview: A Vietnam War–era drama chronicling the emotional journey of two unlikely friends who form a bond en route to Washington, D.C.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-08
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Sty of the Blind Pig
1974-05-29
Sty of the Blind Pig
Overview: After moving to Chicago from the South just as the civil rights movement takes hold, the members of an African American family led by steely matriarch Weedy Warren have different reactions to the social upheaval surrounding them.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-29
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The Burly Man Chronicles
2004-12-04
The Burly Man Chronicles
Overview: This mammoth documentary takes us through the making of both The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. On top of seeing many pre-production and production meetings, we are also invited on the sets for both films, and get an idea of how difficult it was to accomplish the nearly impossible.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-04
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Just an Old Sweet Song
1976-09-25
Just an Old Sweet Song
Overview: Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South. Eventually, the family rediscovers its African-American roots and elects to stay in their new rural surroundings.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-25
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Sunshine State
2002-06-21
Sunshine State
Overview: A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-21
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The Killing Floor
1984-04-10
The Killing Floor
Overview: During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-10
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Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
1995-03-20
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
Overview: Ray investigates the murder of a judge.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-20
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990-12-21
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Overview: After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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