Words by Heart (1984) more movies like this

directed by Rob Thompson
featuring Robert Hooks, Charlotte Rae, Alfre Woodard

Words by Heart is set in a northern farming town in 1910. The town's only black family, recently arrived from the south, is treated with barely concealed contempt by the white farmers--and with outright hostility when the family's daughter (Fran Robinson) wins a Bible-verse contest. The only white resident to buck the prejudice is a feisty, self ...

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Aaron Loves Angela (1975) more movies like this

directed by Gordon Parks, Jr.
featuring Kevin Hooks, Irene Cara, Moses Gunn, Robert Hooks, Ernestine Jackson

Fame star Irene Cara made her film bow in Aaron Loves Angela. Cara plays Angela, a Puerto Rican girl who falls in love with Aaron, a black ghetto youth (Kevin Hooks, whose father Robert Hooks also appears in the film). The unrelenting grimness of their lives is leavened ever so slightly by comic-relief character Willie (Leon Pinkley). Way, way ...

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Seventeen Again (2000) more movies like this

directed by Jeff Byrd
featuring Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry, Tahj Mowry, Robert Hooks

While twin sisters Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry gained fame playing twin sisters on the sitcom Sister Sister, this comic fantasy finds them stretching their talents by playing grandmother and granddaughter. When the Donovan family moves from California to Connecticut, 17-year-old Sydney (Tia Mowry) finds it's not easy being in a new town away from ...

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Backstairs at the White House (1979) more movies like this

directed by Michael O'Herlihy
featuring Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen

Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five decades of American political history as witnessed from the vantage point of the servants' quarters. Played by Tania Johnson as a teenager and by Leslie Uggams as an adult, Lillian Rogers Parks served for 52 years as a ...

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Fast-Walking (1982) more movies like this

directed by James B. Harris
featuring James Woods, Tim McIntire, Kay Lenz, Robert Hooks, M. Emmet Walsh

James Woods plays "Fast-Walking" Miniver, a strikingly amoral prison guard, in this dark, hard-hitting comedy/drama. When not smoking dope or scaring up customers for Evie (Susan Tyrrell), the proprietor of the local house of prostitution, Fast-Walking tries to keep order in an Oregon prison. Fast-Walking is looking for a big payday so he can quit ...

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