Anna Deavere Smith
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950) is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is currently the artist in residence at the Center for American Progress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Deavere Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Birthday: September 18, 1950
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Gender: Female
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Rent
Overview: This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in late 1980s East Village, New York, USA. The film centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a tragedy has made Roger numb to new experiences, Mark begins capturing their world through his attempts to make a personal movie. In the year that follows, they and their friends deal with love, loss, and working together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-17
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Ghosted
Overview: Salt-of-the-earth Cole falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie—but then makes the shocking discovery that she's a secret agent. Before they can decide on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-18
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Cry_Wolf
Overview: After a local woman is murdered, a group of teenage liars create a warning e-mail of a serial killer named “The Wolf”, coming on the next full moon. The teens describe each death method The Wolf uses, but when the described victims actually do start turning up dead, suddenly no one knows where the lies end and the truth begins.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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The Human Stain
Overview: Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-29
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The Kingdom
Overview: A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-22
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Dave
Overview: A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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The American President
Overview: Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-17
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Philadelphia
Overview: Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-22
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Rachel Getting Married
Overview: A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-03
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The Manchurian Candidate
Overview: Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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Twilight: Los Angeles
Overview: Anna Deavere Smith transforms herself into scores of individuals -- using only their words and duplicating their speech patterns, mannerisms, dress, and attitudes -- in a mosaic set in the violent aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King trial and verdict. These verbatim portrayals bring together adversaries, victims, eyewitnesses, and observers who have never stood within the same four walls, let alone spoken to each other. In her signature performance style, Smith embodies and gives voice to scores of real-life "characters" -- from LAPD Police Chief Daryl Gates to a gang member, from Korean store owners to a white juror, from Reginald Denny to Congresswoman Maxine Waters -- black, white, Asian, Latino. Because she is able to speak the words and convey the deeply held sentiments of so many different people, Smith enables her audience members to hear what they might otherwise discount.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-29
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Life Support
Overview: The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-10
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Notes from the Field
Overview: A dramatization of the accounts of the students, parents, teachers and administrators caught in America’s school-to-prison pipeline, which pushes underprivileged, minority youth out of the classroom and into incarceration.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-24
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Unfinished Business
Overview: Helena, a stage actress is confronted by Ferenc, a Hungarian who left her 15 years before to return to Europe, where he now runs a state-subsidized theater. Though he has brought along his current mistress, he wants to come back to Helena.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Overview: When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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Hawaii's Last Queen
Overview: Honeymooners, tourists and surfers flock to Hawaiian shores every year, but life wasn't always serene in the tropical paradise. In the 1890s, the islands -- ruled by Queen Liliuokalani -- faced financial ruin thanks to colonial business interests and the U.S. government, which rescinded Hawaii's preferential sugar market position. "The American Experience" recounts the events and intrigues that resulted in the monarch's ouster ... at gunpoint.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-27
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Here Today
Overview: Veteran comedy writer Charlie Berns, who is slowly but surely losing his grip on reality, befriends a talented young New York street singer Emma Payge. Together, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-07
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A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Overview: Taped at Los Angeles’ iconic Orpheum Theatre, this staged presentation of The West Wing’s “Hartsfield’s Landing” episode stars core cast members along with special guest stars. Act Breaks feature commentary from former First Lady Michelle Obama, President Bill Clinton and Lin-Manuel Miranda who share messages about the vital importance of making our voices heard in every election.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-15
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Flora & Ulysses
Overview: When Flora rescues a squirrel she names Ulysses, she is amazed to discover he possesses unique superhero powers, which take them on an adventure of humorous complications that ultimately change Flora's life--and her outlook--forever.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-19
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Fires in the Mirror
Overview: Anna Deveare Smith plays over 30 characters in a re-creation of the racial conflict that erupted in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-28
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