As Noah and Wade prepare to marry in Martha's Vineyard, the personal problems of their friends - and the unexpected arrival of rapper Baby Gat - threatens to permanently end their relationship.

Aardvark

2017

English

4.5

♡ 11

8%

32%

Action

Drama

Brian Shoaf Director

Tonya Pinkins as Abigail

Jon Hamm as Craig

Jenny Slate as Emily Milburton

Marin Ireland as Jenny

The aardvark has evolved to be one of a kind. You could say the same of Josh Norman.

Beat Street

1984

English

6.5

♡ 14

57%

Stan Lathan Director

Tonya Pinkins as Angela

Mary Alice as Cora

Ralph Cole Jr. as Dancer

Kadeem Hardison as High School Student

An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.

Premium

2006

English

5.6

♡ 2

88%

Pete Chatmon Director

Zoe Saldana as Charli

Johnnie Mae as Clerk

Tonya Pinkins as Marva

Pete Chatmon as Self

Reginald "Cool" Coolidge is a struggling actor, fed up with taking stereotypical African American roles and waiting for his big break in a legitimate production. Until this time comes, he works at his mother's boyfriend's gas station to repay him for covering his college tuition. One day at the station, his ex-fiancé - and one true love - reappears at the pumps after 3 years of silence. Cool discovers that it is 36 hours until her wedding to a local lawyer. As Cool embarks on last-ditch attempts to win her back, he takes on the biggest "role" of his life while also learning the secret to mastering his craft.

The Surrogate

2020

English

6.2

♡ 7

92%

61%

Action

brooklyn, new york city

Jeremy Hersh Director

Brooke Bloom as Bridget

Wesley Taylor as Dave

Tonya Pinkins as Karen Weatherston-Harris

Meg Gibson as Sandra

Jess is thrilled to be the surrogate for her best friend and his husband, but when a prenatal test comes back, it creates a moral dilemma that threatens their friendship.

Hotshot

1986

English

5.3

♡ 1

Rick King Director

Tonya Pinkins as

Kathleen Miller as

Leon Russom as Coach

David Groh as Jerry Norton

The story of an American soccer player trying to make it big who turns to Pele, the greatest soccer player of all time, for guidance.

Fading Gigolo

2013

English

6.2

♡ 24

54%

John Turturro Director

Liev Schreiber as Dovi

Aida Turturro as Driver's Wife

Sharon Stone as Dr. Parker

Tonya Pinkins as Othella

Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.

Collective: Unconscious

2016

English

5.7

♡ 1

Daniel Patrick Carbone Director

Tonya Pinkins as Ripa the Reaper

Lily Baldwin as (segment "Swallowed")

Owen Campbell as St. Helens High Student

James Adomian as TV Host

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?

The Book of Henry

2017

English

6.6

♡ 117

21%

parent child relationship

single mother

suicide

Thriller

Colin Trevorrow Director

Dean Norris as Glenn Sickleman

Bobby Moynihan as John

Jacob Tremblay as Peter Carpenter

Tonya Pinkins as Principal Wilder

Susan, a single mother of two, works as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands.

The Artist's Wife

2019

English

5.9

♡ 6

59%

73%

Action

Drama

Tom Dolby Director

Lena Olin as Claire Smythson

Catherine Curtin as Joyce

Tonya Pinkins as Liza Caldwell

Bruce Dern as Richard Smythson

Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his final show.

Newlyweeds

2013

English

5.8

♡ 2

71%

Action

Comedy

Drama

Shaka King Director

Colman Domingo as Chico

Marc John Jefferies as Drug dealer

Adrian Martinez as Hernan

Tonya Pinkins as Patrice

A match made in stoner heaven turns into a love triangle gone awry when Lyle can't decide which matters most, Nina or Mary Jane.

My Days of Mercy

2017

English

6.5

♡ 43

90%

Tali Shalom-Ezer Director

Tonya Pinkins as Agatha

Dann Fink as Announcer

Ellen Page as Lucy

Kate Mara as Mercy

The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.

Against Their Will

1994

English

5.5

♡ 3

Karen Arthur Director

Aidan Devine as

Barbara Eve Harris as Captain Williamson

Stacy Keach as Jack Devlin

Tonya Pinkins as Sondra

Behind prison walls, corruption, sex and power make criminals out of the guards and heroes out of the guarded. For more than a decade, the lawless guards inside a maximum security women's prison have reigned with impunity - rape, sex for money and illegal favors have become the norm until one woman decides to battle the system. Leading a group of inmates on a risky life-or-death struggle for justice, a ten year silence is finally broken, exposing the twisted truth to the world and enabling the prisoners the freedom to live without fear.

Above the Rim

1994

English

6.6

♡ 28

50%

Jeff Pollack Director

Shawn Michael Howard as Bobby

Marlon Wayans as Bugaloo

Tonya Pinkins as Mailika

Henry Simmons as Starnes

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

1989

English

6.8

♡ 50

29%

72%

Action

blindness and impaired vision

Arthur Hiller Director

Louis Giambalvo as Gatlin

Tonya Pinkins as Leslie

John Capodice as Scotto

Mark Kenneth Smaltz as Techeco

A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot, but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?

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