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2004 Films
Title: 1802: Freedom Now
Director: Christian Lara
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Country: Guadeloupe
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Duration: 90 min.
Year: 2004
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After its abolition in 1794 during the French Revolution, Napoléon sends a young, ruthless general to reinstate slavery on the island of Guadeloupe. This is the story of the valiant fight fought by Guadeloupe's Black inhabitants to maintain their freedom. |
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2004 Films
Title: 34 South
Director: Maganthrie Pillay
Screenwriter: Dingilizwe Ntuli, Beverly Mitchell & Weaam Williams
Dir. of Photography: Keith Shirlaw
Music: Alex Van Hernden & Dingilizwe Ntuli
Editor: Jackie le Cordeur & Matthew Brown
Sound: Albert Edmund Lord III
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Country: South Africa
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Duration: 104 min.
Year: 2004
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Frank September and his roommates set out on the road from Cape Town to Jozie (Johannesburg) and end up getting taken for the ride of their lives in this captivating road movie about youth, identity and life in the New South Africa. 34 South is the first feature film directed by a Black South African woman in over 100 years of South African Cinema. |
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2004 Films
Title: A Black Scholar Investigates Colonialism
Director: William Greaves
Screenwriter: William Greaves
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Music: Kermit Moore
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Country: US
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Duration: 26 min.
Year: 2004
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Studying and recording his observations on the impact of colonialism on indigenous societies and cultures, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche traveled throughout Africa and around the world. Rare archival footage along with Dr. Bunche’s scholarly analysis gives the viewer a rare insight into the roots of many of today's current events. Interviews with John Henrick Clarke and John Hope Franklin, among others. Narrated by Sidney Poitier. |
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2004 Films
Title: Accused #1: Nelson Mandela
Director: Pascale Lamche
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Dir. of Photography: Dominic Black
Music: Paul Hanmer
Editor: James Rose
Sound: President Kapa
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Country: South Africa
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Duration: 60 min.
Year: 2004
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June, 1964 heralded the culmination of one of the most significant political trials of the 20th century. Featuring interviews with the defendants, this is the untold story of the Rivonia trial that sentenced Nelson Mandela and six others to life imprisonment for planning to overthrow the rule of the apartheid government. |
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2004 Films
Title: African Blood
Director: Roberto Olivares
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Country: Mexico
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Duration: 25 min.
Year: 2004
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Mexican identity is assumed as the fusion between Indigenous and European cultures. The forgotten element of Mexican identity, African Blood, is explored through testimonies, reflections and powerful cultural expressions made by our brothers and sisters who live in the Costa Chica region, in the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero. |
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2004 Films
Title: African Middleweights (Africains Poids Moyens)
Director: Daniel Cattier
Screenwriter: Daniel Cattier
Dir. of Photography: Diego Romero
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Editor: Nicolas Dedecker
Sound: Vincent Nouaille
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Country: Belgium/Zimbabwe
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Duration: 18 min.
Year: 2004
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A young Congolese boxer and his brother arrive in Brussels for the finale of the Afro-European Middleweight Championship on the eve of Independence of Congo. All is going well until he is ordered to take a dive. |
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2004 Films
Title: Among Thieves
Director: Oscar Daniels
Screenwriter: Oscar Daniels
Dir. of Photography: John O'Shaughnessy
Music: Geoff Levin
Editor: Oscar Daniels
Sound: Tony Redd
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Country: US
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Duration: 24 min.
Year: 2004
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When Travelle, a self-centered criminal, flees a robbery gone awry, the only place he finds to hide is in the home of a spirited, bedridden elderly woman. |
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2004 Films
Title: Ascension
Director: Semone Roberts
Screenwriter: Semone Roberts
Dir. of Photography: Paul Cuffee
Music: Vincent Gillioz
Editor: Julianna Calin
Sound: Adam Wade & Sean Skinner
Costume: Christine Ferro
Country: US
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Duration: 10 min.
Year: 2004
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Set during the Black Power movement in the 1960s, a young woman finds strength and courage when she takes over leadership of a revolutionary Black Power party. |
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2004 Films
Title: Au Pair Chocolat
Director: Benson McGrath
Screenwriter: Abigail McGrath
Dir. of Photography: Abe Schrager
Music: Jason Rosen
Editor: Lillian Benson
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Country: US
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Duration: 87 min.
Year: 2004
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A warm comedy about a Harlem girl who is hired as an au pair by a wealthy Black family on the posh island of Martha's Vineyard and brings more baggage than her suitcase to the job. |
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2004 Films
Title: Black Aura on an Angel*
Director: Faith Trimel
Screenwriter: Faith Trimel
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Country: US
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Duration: 64 min.
Year: 2004
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Based on the true story of Angel and Phaedra, two African-American women who fall madly in love. |
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2004 Films
Title: Blinding Goldfish
Director: Jay Paramsothy
Screenwriter: Pia Wilson
Dir. of Photography: William Newell
Music: Matt La Von
Editor: Jeff Marchello
Sound: Eric Offin
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Country: US
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Duration: 21 min.
Year: 2004
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A young Black journalist and a Holocaust survivor form an unusual bond when they discover they both come from violent pasts involving their fathers. |
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2004 Films
Title: Boy Called Twist
Director: Tim Greene
Screenwriter: Time Greene
Dir. of Photography: Mike Downie
Music: Murray Anderson
Editor: Ronelle Loots
Sound: Stef Albertyn
Costume: Bridget Baker
Country: South Africa
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Duration: 115 min.
Year: 2004
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A contemporary interpretation of Dickens' Oliver Twist, relocated to the streets of Cape Town. |
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2004 Films
Title: Brass Tacks*
Director: Gavin Dougan
Screenwriter: Gavin Dougan
Dir. of Photography: Ed Myers
Music: Michael Semanick
Editor: Jeff Cooper & Todd Sali
Sound: Mark Berger
Costume: Maurice White
Country: US
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Duration: 96 min.
Year: 2004
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Exciting live musical performances wrap around a love story set in the intense world of a group of young, hungry and talented jazz musicians struggling to get a record deal. |
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2004 Films
Title: Brother to Brother*
Director: Rodney Evans
Screenwriter: Rodney Evans
Dir. of Photography: Harlan Bosmajian
Music: Marc Anthony Thompson
Editor: Sabine Hoffman
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Country: US
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Duration: 90 min.
Year: 2004
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A young gay artist, rejected by his family, discovers the hidden legacies of the gay subculture of the Harlem Renaissance through his friendship with a mysterious elderly poet whom he meets at the homeless shelter where he works. After hearing the old man's tales of being Black, gay and unashamed he gains a stronger sense of his own identity. |
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2004 Films
Title: Bullet Boy*
Director: Saul Dibb
Screenwriter: Saul Dibb, Catherine Johnson
Dir. of Photography: Marcel Zyskind
Music: Neil Davidge & Robert del Naja
Editor: Masahiro Hirakubo & John Mister
Sound: Albert Bailey Amps
Costume: James Keast
Country: UK
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Duration: 89 min.
Year: 2004
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A minor incident escalates into a cycle of violence with tragic repercussions in this powerful and moving tale of two brothers growing up in one of East London's most volatile neighborhoods. |
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2004 Films
Title: Can I Get a Pickle?
Director: Reggie Gaskins
Screenwriter: Reggie Gaskins
Dir. of Photography: Diane Farrington
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Editor: Heather Dawn Robinson
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Country: US
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Duration: 29 min.
Year: 2004
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Instead of telling his girlfriend that he loves her at a romantic dinner where he hopes to pop the question a man asks a stupid question. Stars Reggie Gaskins and Angelle Brooks. |
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2004 Films
Title: Cape of Good Hope
Director: Mark Bamford
Screenwriter: Suzanne Kay & Mark Bamford
Dir. of Photography: Larry Fong
Music: J B Eckl
Editor: Frank Reynolds & Tanya Hagen
Sound: Ivan Milborrow
Costume: Reza Levy
Country: South Africa
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Duration: 107 min.
Year: 2004
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Centered around the Good Hope animal shelter, three women look for romance and fulfillment of their dreams. The painful reminders of South Africa's past - such as a dog trained to attack only Black people - lie just below the surface and provide the dramatic edge to this layered, romantic, sometimes funny and allegorical film set in the new multi-racial South Africa. Stars Eriq Ebouaney, star of Lumumba, as a Congolese refugee and former astronomy professor who works with the animals at the shelter. |
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2004 Films
Title: Cecil Taylor: All the Notes
Director: Christopher Felver
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Duration: 73 min.
Year: 2004
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One of the great liberators of music, like Monk and Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor follows in the tradition of Charlie Parker, creating a streaming liberty that is as powerful as any artistic expression in modern culture. Taylor takes jazz to the extreme limits, showing profound architectural thinking regarding the shapes of sound. |
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2004 Films
Title: Closure*
Director: JAYDEE®
Screenwriter: JAYDEE®
Dir. of Photography: Aaron Bleich
Music: Beethova Obas
Editor: Domingo Martin
Sound: Bob Jean Louis
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Duration: 9 min.
Year: 2004
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Jess is an attractive, progressive, normal woman in her 30’s, but her dating experiences have been far from that. Join her on ten of those dates in this self-affirming, hilarious, urban comedy. |
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2004 Films
Title: Colonial Misunderstanding (Le Malentendu Colonial)
Director: Jean-Marie Teno
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Dir. of Photography: Dieter Stürmer & Jean-Marie Teno
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Editor: Christiane Badgley
Sound: Jean-Marie Teno & Paulin Tabou
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Country: Cameroon/France/Germany
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Duration: 78 min.
Year: 2004
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Almost forgotten by history, in 1904 more than three million Herero people (Namibia) where murdered by the Germans in a precursor to later 20th century genocides. At the same time, missionaries helped to destroy African beliefs and social systems and replace them with European ones. |
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2004 Films
Title: Consent
Director: Kevin Branch
Screenwriter: Kevin Branch
Dir. of Photography: Brian Earl
Music: Robert Haas & Kristin Massey
Editor: Kevin Branch
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Duration: 6 min.
Year: 2004
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In this once-in-a-lifetime one-night stand the tables are turned on a groupie fan. |
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2004 Films
Title: Control Room
Director: Jehane Noujaim
Screenwriter: Julia Bacha & Jehane Noujaim
Dir. of Photography: Jehane Noujaim
Music: Thomas DeRenzo & Hani Salama
Editor: Julia Bacha, Lilah Bankier, Charles Marquardt & Alan Oxman
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Duration: 86 min.
Year: 2004
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A chronicle providing a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by the Bush administration for reporting with an alleged pro-Iraqi bias, the station has revealed everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want seen. |
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2004 Films
Title: Coochie
Director: Najaa Young
Screenwriter: Najaa Young
Dir. of Photography: Ana Foy
Music: Don Juan Moore & Matt Mariano
Editor: Fran Ervin
Sound: Ana Foy
Costume: Tiffany Moore & Pam Hark
Country: US
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Duration: 21 min.
Year: 2004
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An artist embarks on a journey to discover the real people behind LGBT images in the media and in the process discovers a part of herself. (Community Collaborator: United Lesbians of African Heritage) |
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2004 Films
Title: Cracking Up
Director: Christian Lara
Screenwriter: Christian Lara
Dir. of Photography: John Bourgeois
Music: Hélène Blazy
Editor: Barthélémy S. Rolland & Catherine Trouillet
Sound: Luc Bastaraud
Costume: Josy Makoko
Country: Guadeloupe
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Duration: 85 min.
Year: 2004
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A female lawyer is committed to rid her Caribbean island of drug traffikers. |
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2004 Films
Title: Critical Assignment
Director: Jason Xenopoulos
Screenwriter: Tunde Babalola
Dir. of Photography: Michael Brierley
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Country: South Africa/UK/Nigeria/Cameroon
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Duration: 110 min.
Year: 2004
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Africa's first stunt-filled, adventure, thriller! With a new assignment to report on the global water crisis, handsome, dashing, international journalist Michael Power returns to Africa from reporting on the Eastern European battlefront. In his home country, the new president has just announced his plans to divert the military budget to fund a Clean Water for All project. Intrigues, adventure and lots of action set against the lush backdrop of modern Africa ensue as Michael gets the scoop on those opposed to the new plan. |
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2004 Films
Title: Daughters of the Wind (Filhas do Vento)
Director: Joel Zito Araújo & Joel Zito Viana
Screenwriter: Joel Zito Araújo & Di Moretti
Dir. of Photography: Jacob Solitrenick
Music: Marcus Viana
Editor: Isabela Monteiro de Castro Isabela Monteiro de Castro
Sound: Antonio Carlos Murici
Costume: Giovanna Moretto
Country: Brazil
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Duration: 85 min.
Year: 2004
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In a small town in Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart. One of them left for the big city to become an actress. The other stayed behind to look after their father. |
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2004 Films
Title: Donnie McClurkin Story: From Darkness To Light, The
Director: Stephanie Frederic
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Duration: 95 min.
Year: 2004
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From the White House to Oprah the music of world-famous gospel singer Donnie McClurkin has touched the hearts, minds and souls of people everywhere. Now hear the Grammy Award winning singer's inspiring personal story--from the child who endured a horrendous tragedy that changed his life to the polished artist whose exuberant music and longtime faith in God helped him to heal. |
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2004 Films
Title: Dying to Make a Change
Director: Cliff Scott
Screenwriter: Cliff Scott
Dir. of Photography: Michael Williams
Music: Chris Archer
Editor: Reginald Smith
Sound: Michael Williams
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Country: US
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Duration: 118 min.
Year: 2004
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Ripped from today's headlines, the lives of young college students are permanently altered by fraternity hazing. |
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2004 Films
Title: Elephant Palm Tree
Director: Kara Miller
Screenwriter: Kara Miller
Dir. of Photography: Nick Tebbet
Music: Adrian Johnston
Editor: Chris Gill
Sound: Matt Rodgers
Costume: Fiona O'Connor
Country: UK
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Duration: 10 min.
Year: 2004
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The lack of options for a middle-aged, middle-class wife becomes a pivotal issue in the decision of whether or not to end of her marriage to her cold, ruthless husband. |
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2004 Films
Title: Exposure*
Director: Tamara Bass
Screenwriter: Tamara Bass
Dir. of Photography: Salamon Anaya
Music: Derrick A. Carolina
Editor: Mack Tompkins
Sound: D'Marco Smith
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Country: US
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Duration: 19 min.
Year: 2004
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Due to a lack of her attention, a woman's husband is forced into the arms of another woman. Will she wake up before it's too late? Starring Malinda Williams of Soul Food. |
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