Mary Alice Movies

Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.

An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After 22 years, the children are reunited with...

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...

The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976.

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....

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...

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...

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....

In 1948, Johns served as the outspoken spiritual leader of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Incensed at the racial injustice...

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...

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...

When her storyteller mother (Mary Alice) dies, attorney Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) returns to her Georgia hometown and is soon captivated by a...

A mother afflicted with depression comes into conflict with own mother and children when she refuses to seek professional health care.

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...