Mary Alice
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Filmography
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What I Want My Words to Do to You
(2003)Can a person’s life have meaning again once she has done something truly horrible? Female inmates at a maximum-security prison grapple with their violent crimes in a workshop led by Eve Ensler. They confront the lives they’ve ruined, the families left behind, and their own lives as they might have been. The film builds to a performance of the group’s work by Glenn Close, Rosie Perez, and others.

Sty of the Blind Pig
(1974)Philip Hayes Dean’s powerful drama about an uprooted Black family living in Chicago while civil rights leaders organize marches in the South.

The Women of Brewster Place
(1989)A group of strong-willed women struggle against circumstances in a rundown housing project on a street overflowing with tales of courage and anguish.

Sunshine State
(2002)Two women return to their hometown roots in northern coastal Florida and must deal with family business and encroaching real estate development.

The Vernon Johns Story
(1994)This inspirational saga follows the life of Vernon Johns, a fiery minister and trailblazing civil rights advocate in 1950s Alabama.

To Sleep with Anger
(1990)Harry Mention, an enigmatic drifter from the South, comes to visit an old acquaintance named Gideon, who now lives in Los Angeles, and trouble ensues.

The Wishing Tree
(1999)An ambitious career woman returns to her hometown but finds it difficult to relate to her old life until she befriends a mysterious hermit.

Down in the Delta
(1998)Alfre Woodard leaves the big city behind and heads down south to save her family in this heartfelt film directed by Maya Angelou.

Sparkle
(1976)It's a long way from the ghetto to the top of the charts!

The Matrix Revolutions
(2003)Everything that has a beginning has an end. In this explosive final chapter of the Matrix trilogy, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity battle to defend Zion, the last real-world city, against the onslaught of the machines that have enslaved the human race.
The Killing Floor
(1984)Praised by The Village Voice as the most "clear-eyed account of union organizing on film," The Killing Floor tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay by Obie Award-winner Leslie Lee, based on an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach, traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the city’s giant slaughterhouses, and the brutal efforts of management to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. The first feature film directed by Bill Duke, The Killing Floor premiered on PBS' American Playhouse series in 1984 to rave reviews. In 1985 the film was invited to Cannes and won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award. It has been showcased at the Lincoln Center and festivals around the world. New 4K restoration by Made in U.SA. Productions, Inc. Laboratory services by UCLA Film and Television Archive Digital Media Lab; Audio Services by Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, Inc.; Digital Color Grading by Planemo (Berlin) and Alpha-Omega digital (Münich). Special thanks to Elsa Rassbach and the Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA Film and Television Archive.