Vanessa Williams — Actor (40)
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Daytime Divas (2017) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Daytime Divas
actor: Andrew Jay Anderson / Fiona Gubelmann …
other title: 晨間女王
Every weekday at noon, Maxine, Mo, Heather, Kibby, and Nina—hosts of The Lunch Hour, the long-running women’s talk show—gather around the table to discuss life, love, politics, and juicy gossip. But behind the scenes, it’s even juicier — a backstage world filled with power struggles, diva fits, and steamy affairs. Inspired by the book “Satan’s Sisters” by Star Jones, television personality, lawyer and journalist.
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It's Black Entertainment (2002) IMDb TMDB
It's Black Entertainment
director: Stan Lathan actor: Vanessa Williams / Whitney Houston …
A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa Williams traces the struggles and triumphs of the superstars of music and film. Among the many artists featured are: Whitney Houston, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Ella Fitzgerald, and Little Richard, Also included are today's contemporary superstars: Snoop Dogg, Ice T, Quincy Jones, Spike Lee, Russell Simmons, and many, more! 80 minutes plus DVD bonus features.
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Santa, Baby! (2001) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Santa, Baby!
director: Lee Dannacher actor: Gregory Hines / Patti LaBelle …
Songwriter Noel is struggling to write a hit song, and so he takes his frustrations out on his family. His daughter Dakota is granted one wih for doing a good deed and she wishes that her daddy will write a hit song. There is a sub-plot about kindness to animals that has almost nothing to do with the main story.
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Under the Gun (1988) IMDb TMDB
Under the Gun
director: James Sbardellati actor: Sam J. Jones / Vanessa Williams …
A St. Louis cop, Mike Braxton (Sam Jones), receives an urgent call for help from his brother Tony (Nick Cassavetes), a small time thief in Los Angeles. Mike rushes to LA and finds that his brother has been murdered and his brother Tony's girlfriend gunned down right in front of him. Mike quickly learns Tony was a courier for an arms smuggler, Simon Stone (John Russell). When Mike meets Stone's lawyer, Samantha Richardson (Vanessa Williams), the two team up to bring down Stone's arms smuggling empire. However, Mike's infatuation with Samantha keeps putting them in greater danger.
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The Odyssey (1997) IMDb TMDB
The Odyssey
★ 7.9 (14 ratings) director: Andrei Konchalovsky actor: Armand Assante / Greta Scacchi …
other title: 오딧세이 / A Odisséia …
Warrior Odysseus leaves his idyllic life in the kingdom of Ithaca to fight in the Trojan War. Following victory, he now must endure a lengthy, decade-long return journey, and with all his wits, overcome deadly monsters, powerful forces of nature, seductive enchantresses, and even journey into the bowels of the Underworld.
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Miss Virginia (2019) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Miss Virginia
director: R.J. Daniel Hanna actor: Uzo Aduba / Matthew Modine …
other title: Miss Virginia (película)
A struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Unwilling to allow her son to stay in a dangerous school, she launches a movement that could save his future - and that of thousands like him.
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Dance with Me (1998) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Dance with Me
director: 兰达·海恩斯 actor: 凡妮莎·威廉斯 / 查亚纳 …
other title: 热舞情挑 / 跟我起舞吧 …
Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas. It soon becomes clear Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby (Vanessa Williams) is the biggest hope for the studio at the championship.
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Another You (1991) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Another You
director: Maurice Phillips actor: Richard Pryor / Gene Wilder …
other title: 백만불짜리 거짓말 / Das andere Ich …
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognise George as a missing millionaire, Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation.
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Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (2023) TMDB
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
director: Tracy Heather Strain actor: Zora Neale Hurston / 凡妮莎·威廉斯 …
Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people, an unusual practice at the time, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.
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Soul Food (1997) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Soul Food
director: 小乔治·蒂尔曼 actor: 凡妮莎·威廉斯 / 薇薇卡·福克斯 …
other title: 쏘울 푸드 / ソウル・フード …
Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemble comedy. When tragedy strikes, it's up to grandson Ahmad (Brandon Hammond) to pull the family together and put the soul back into the family's weekly gatherings.
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The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
director: 加里·哈勒沃尔森 actor: 凯文·克拉什 / 曼迪·帕廷金 …
other title: 엘모의 대모험 / エルモと毛布の大冒険 …
Elmo loves his fuzzy, well-worn blue blanket more than anything in the whole world. However, when Elmo's blanket gets sucked through a colorful, swirling tunnel into Grouchland, the yuckiest place on earth, Elmo goes on an adventure to Grouchland to retrieve his prized possession.
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Mid-Century (2022) Douban
Mid-Century
director: 索尼娅·奥·哈拉 actor: 布鲁斯·邓恩 / 史蒂芬·朗 …
other title: 周末惊魂
当丈夫发现房主是一个精神病患者，后院里藏着妻子的秘密和设计时，丈夫和妻子在一个世纪中期的现代度假租房里度过的周末变得非常危险。
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唐吉诃德 (2000) Douban
Don Quixote
director: 彼得·叶茨 actor: 约翰·利思戈 / 鲍勃·霍斯金斯 …
other title: Don Quixote / 堂吉诃德 …
根据西班牙著名作家塞万提斯同名小说改编。
阿隆索自小喜爱各种各样的骑士小说，梦想着四处锄强扶弱，于是自封为唐·吉诃德骑士，带着他的老邻居和一头驴一次次出发模仿古代骑士周游天下。在旅途中，丰富的想象力让他将风车看作巨人，将羊群看成国王的军队，女佣也变成了美神，穷乡僻壤的客栈变成了威武森严的城堡……然而现实终究是残酷的，在处处碰壁，回回受伤之后，唐·吉诃德终于在家人与朋友的帮助下找到了属于自己的人生……
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Twenties (2020) Douban
actor: Jonica T. Gibbs / 克里斯蒂娜·埃尔莫尔 …
TBS has locked in the main cast of Twenties, its single-camera comedy from The Chi creator and Master of None Emmy winner Lena Waithe. Jonica T. Gibbs has landed the lead, with Christina Elmore, Gabrielle Graham and Sophina Brown as co-leads in the project, created and written by Waithe nine years ago, when she was in her early 20s.
Twenties follows the adventures of a queer black girl, Hattie (Gibbs), and her two straight best friends, Marie (Elmore) and Nia (Graham), who spend most of their days talking shit and chasing their dreams. It’s a show about friendship, finding love, and messing everything up along the way.
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动物也疯狂 (2012) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Delhi Safari
director: 尼基尔·阿德瓦尼 actor: 加利·艾尔维斯 / 克里斯托弗·洛伊德 …
other title: Delhi Safari / 德里历险记 …
故事发生在孟买圣雄甘地国家公园之中，一群动物在森林里快乐的生活着，直到有一天，人类的伐木机驶向了这片动物们赖以生存的家园。小豹尤为（塔拉·斯特朗 Tara Strong配音）的父亲死于猎人的枪下，悲痛之中，尤为召集了森林里的动物们，为它们的未来出谋划策。
小猴巴酱（范妮莎·L·威廉姆斯 Vanessa Williams 配音）提议正式和人类开战，大熊巴嘎（布拉德·加内特 Brad Garrett配音）不同意巴酱的看法，它希望能够找到一条和平解决问题的道路。商讨之下，一干动物决定去德里国家会议抗议示威，之后却发现它们没有人会说人类的语言，除了淡泊名利只想安静生活的鹦鹉艾利克斯（汤姆·肯尼 Tom Kenny 配音）。
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Flirting With Forty (2008) Douban
Flirting With Forty
director: 米凯尔·萨洛门 actor: 海瑟·洛克莱尔 / 罗伯特·伯克利 …
other title: 情挑四十 / 四十也风流
A divorced mother approaching her 40th birthday falls for a younger man while on vacation.