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This is a list of mostly U.S. American films about black girlhood. This age group can range from young children to those experiencing adolescence . These depictions are often called coming-of-age stories .
Enough is a 2002 American psychological thriller film directed by Michael Apted, based on the New York Times bestselling 1998 novel Black and Blue, by Anna Quindlen.It stars Jennifer Lopez as Slim, an abused wife who learns to fight back.
Dark Girls is a 2011 documentary film by Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry. It documents colorism within the African American community, a subject still considered taboo by many black Americans. The film contains interviews of African American women describing the role colorism has played in their lives, with notable African Americans including ...
The summer 1984 box office is remembered for hit movies like "Ghostbusters,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” “Gremlins" and "The Karate Kid." We take a look back.
Sidney Poitier (1927–2022), pictured in 1963, was the first Black movie star and the first Black male winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878–1949), pictured in 1946, was an American tap dancer, actor, singer, perhaps best known today for his Shirley Temple films.
Originally using the play's full title, the film's title was shortened to For Colored Girls in September 2010. [9] In an October 2010 press conference with the cast, Perry credited his full body of work for being able to make the film, stating, "It took everything—Madea, House of Payne and all of that—for me to be able to do For Colored ...
The rise and decline of the Black-owned ethnic beauty industry. [57] Pick: September 2019: Short drama about the social consequences faced by a young girl after she goes to school on class picture day wearing her natural African hair instead of straightening it. [58] Premature: January 26, 2019: February 21, 2020 [48] Queen & Slim: November 15 ...
Flubber is a 1997 American science-fiction comedy film directed by Les Mayfield (who had previously directed the John Hughes scripted remake, Miracle on 34th Street) and written by Hughes and Bill Walsh.