Adilah Barnes
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Biography: Adilah Barnes is one of few veteran actors in Hollywood who have not only mastered the art of successfully marketing herself, but also of utilizing all of her creative skills – all the while staying true to herself and maintaining her integrity. She is currently involved with the CW’s 4400. She has guest-starred on such tv series as CBS’s NCIS, Showtime’s Shameless, The Middle, ABC’s Body of Proof, NBC’s Harry’s Law and Prime Suspect. She is probably best known for her role as “Anne Marie” for 6 seasons on ABC’s Roseanne. Her film credits include playing opposite Sandra Bullock in the CastleRock Entertainment film, Murder By Numbers and the Universal blockbuster and award-winning Erin Brockovich with Julia Roberts. She has also appeared opposite Ving Rhames in the heartwarming CBS Hallmark made-for-tv movie, Little John, among other credits. In her role opposite Hilary Swank, as the infamous Ida B. Wells in HBO’s Iron – Jawed Angels, Barnes marched for women’s rights and ironically, in real life she is also a marcher and supporter for women.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Basic Instinct
Overview: Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-20
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Justice
Overview: A lawyer and her partner run from the Colombian Mafia and the corrupt U.S. marshals and attorneys assigned to protect them.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-14
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Bulworth
Overview: A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-15
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Iron Jawed Angels
Overview: Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-16
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Kiss Shot
Overview: A struggling, single mom with a precocious young daughter also has an unpaid mortgage. She falls back on her pool-playing skills to pay off her debts. But just as she plays her way into a big money tournament, a globe-trotting ladies' man threatens to disrupt her life with her daughter and her peace of mind. Suddenly, everything's riding on a single shot.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-11
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The Image
Overview: When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-27
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Little John
Overview: The unmarried daughter of a Texas rancher gives birth to an unwanted child. She puts the child up for adoption and moves away from home. Without her knowledge, her father took the boy and raised him. Twelve years later, she is now a successful family-court judge in L.A. Over the years, she has avoided her father and knows nothing of the child. That all changes when he decides that is time she knew her own child and heads for L.A.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-05
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Murder by Numbers
Overview: Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-19
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The Christmas Wish
Overview: Returning to his home town after the death of the grandfather who raised him, slick and cynical Wall Street trader Will Martin feels decidedly out of place, and not at all in tune with the Christmas preparations being made by the local citizenry. But Will isn't really taking a sentimental journey at all: He's merely in town to modernize and streamline his family's real-estate company. While going through his grandfather's effects, Will and his grandmother come across the old man's diary--which reveals a lengthy relationship with a woman named Lillian.
Genres: Family Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-06
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Absolute Strangers
Overview: A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a legal campaign to gain legal custody of the fetus.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-14
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A Place to Be Loved
Overview: Gregory Kingsley, a boy passed off onto social services by his natural mother and abused by his natural father, finds the foster family he is put into to be the type of family he needs and takes his natural mother to court to have her parental rights revoked so that he can be adopted by the Russes. The story is based on the real case of the boy who really did have to take this action to avoid being sent back into an unacceptable situation.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-04
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Seven Girlfriends
Overview: Jesse is charming, romantic, and he knows how to pop the question; he just can't face marriage. So, when he and Hannah split up during the same week that a former fiancée dies, he decides to figure things out. He visits each woman about whom he's been serious to ask what went wrong. His teen flame, an independent woman who sometimes sleeps with him, and a group of lesbians give him advice, as does Anabeth, dead but lively in his dreams. One ex remains furious, but with the help of her inventive colleague, the level-headed insomniac Laura, Jesse even gets to talk to her. It's on to Anabeth's funeral, where he'll see Hannah, and maybe grasp what has been eluding him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-21
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Beautiful
Overview: Determined to win the Miss American Miss pageant, Mona is ready to sacrifice anything and everything to guarantee herself the crown including her own daughter! She manages to persuade her best bud to raise the kid as her own (Miss AM can't be a mom), but just when this beauty-queen wannabe thinks her prize is in sight, she's surprised by a come-from-behind competitor. Love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-10
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111 Gramercy Park
Overview: Unsold series pilot about wealthy New Yorkers who live in an upscale apartment building, and the various maids, nannies and maintenance people who work for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Fears to Fathom: Carson House
Overview: Noah Baker, a highschool student experiences unsettling occurrences while house-sitting for a media personality, little did he know what was about to unfold that night.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-31
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A Message from Holly
Overview: Kate is a high-powered, workaholic executive who discreetly takes time off from her work to live with her artist friend Holly, who reveals she has terminal cancer which leaves her with only six months left to live. Over the course of those months, things get tense after Kate accepts custody of Holly's daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-13
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Switched at Birth
Overview: This is the story of the two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later when one of the girls gets sick and tests revealed that she was not the daughter of the couple who raised her. Eventually she dies. And the couple most especially the mother, search for their real daughter. Eventually they suspect that it's a widower who has their child. Now while they try to find out if she is their daughter, the widower is advised by his attorney not to be so hasty to cooperate, cause if she is their daughter, he might lose her, and she is all he has.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-28
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Cast the First Stone
Overview: After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at the school where she teaches who condemn her "loose morals" and ostracize her. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-13
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Cab to Canada
Overview: Fact-based story about a Pasadena cab driver who picks up what he believes is a routine fare, an elderly woman on her way to a funeral. However, the wealthy woman is soon is insisting that the cabbie drive her on a cross-country trip that ends up entailing 3100 miles and ending in Vancouver. Initially contentious, the two eventually find a reluctant friendship growing.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-29
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Erin Brockovich
Overview: A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-17
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Auggie Rose
Overview: An insurance salesman's humdrum existence takes a turn when a stranger, ex-con Auggie Rose, unexpectedly dies in his arms. Assuming the identity of the dead man, the salesman embarks on a double life, keeping it secret from his live-in girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-14
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My Brother's Keeper
Overview: A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-19
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