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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

U.S. 2008. Comedy by Malcolm D. Lee with Martin Lawrence, Joy Bryant, James Earl Jones. A star entertainer on the outs with his father returns to his family for his parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary.

Runtime: 100 min.

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The Return of Superfly

U.S. 1990. Crime drama by Sig Shore with Nathan Purdee, Margaret Avery, Leonard Thomas. After a long exile in Paris, a former drug dealer returns to New York and immediately falls back into the underworld.

Runtime: 95 min.

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Riverbend

U.S. 1989. Adventures by Sam Firstenberg with Steve James (I), Margaret Avery, Tony Frank.

Runtime: 106 min.

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Blueberry Hill

U.S. 1988. Social drama by Strathford Hamilton with Carrie Snodgress, Jennifer Rubin, Margaret Avery. A little girl whose father died the day she was born learns about the man he was thanks to her piano teacher.

Runtime: 93 min.

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The Color Purple

U.S. 1985. Mores drama by Steven Spielberg with Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Danny Glover. The tribulations of a young Black woman offered in marriage to a widowed farmer who treats her as a servant.

Runtime: 154 min.

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For Us, the Living

U.S. 1983. Biography by Michael Schultz with Howard E. Rollins Jr., Irene Cara, Roscoe Lee Browne. The social activism of Black American leader Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in 1963.

Runtime: 90 min.

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The Lathe of Heaven

U.S. 1979. Science-fiction by David R. Loxton with Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Margaret Avery.

Runtime: 105 min.

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Which Way Is Up?

U.S. 1977. Mores comedy by Michael Schultz with Richard Pryor, Lonette McKee, Margaret Avery. The union activities and romantic life of a black farm worker.

Runtime: 94 min.

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Louis Armstrong, Chicago Style

U.S. 1976. Dramatic comedy by Lee Philips with Ben Vereen, Red Buttons, Margaret Avery. In the early 1930s, a jazz musician gets into trouble with gangsters.

Runtime: 75 min.

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Cool Breeze

U.S. 1972. Crime drama by Barry Pollack with Thalmus Rasulala, Jim Watkins, Raymond St. Jacques. After his release from prison, a criminal recruits accomplices and thinks of organizing a robbery.

Runtime: 101 min.