Rustin (2023)
Biography | Drama | History
Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
Starring: Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Jeffrey Wright, Audra McDonald
Director: George C. Wolfe
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
Drama | Music
Chicago, 1927. A recording session. Tensions rise between Ma Rainey, her ambitious horn player and the white management determined to control the uncontrollable "Mother of the Blues". Based on Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson's play.
Starring: Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman, Taylour Paige, Jonny Coyne
Director: George C. Wolfe
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
Biography | Drama
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
Starring: Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Courtney B. Vance, Reg E. Cathey, Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Director: George C. Wolfe
You're Not You (2014)
Drama
Kate is a classical pianist just diagnosed with ALS. Bec is a brash college student and would-be rock singer who can barely keep her wildly chaotic affairs, romantic and otherwise, together. Yet, when Bec takes a job assisting Kate, just as Kate's marriage to Evan hits the skids, both women come to rely on what becomes an unconventional, sometimes confrontational and fiercely honest bond. As meticulous, willful Kate begins to rub off on whirlwind, spontaneous Bec – and vice versa – both women find themselves facing down regrets, exploring new territory and expanding their ideas of who they want to be.
Starring: Hilary Swank, Emmy Rossum, Josh Duhamel, Stephanie Beatriz
Director: George C. Wolfe
You're Not You (2014)
Drama
Kate is a classical pianist just diagnosed with ALS. Bec is a brash college student and would-be rock singer who can barely keep her wildly chaotic affairs, romantic and otherwise, together. Yet, when Bec takes a job assisting Kate, just as Kate's marriage to Evan hits the skids, both women come to rely on what becomes an unconventional, sometimes confrontational and fiercely honest bond. As meticulous, willful Kate begins to rub off on whirlwind, spontaneous Bec – and vice versa – both women find themselves facing down regrets, exploring new territory and expanding their ideas of who they want to be.
Starring: Hilary Swank, Emmy Rossum, Josh Duhamel
Director: George C. Wolfe
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Garden State (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays a retarded quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew ("Large") to believe that his mother's wheelchair bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his father and his doctor made him believe that he needed, and began to see life for what it is. He began to feel the pain he had longed for, and began to have a genuine relationship with a girl who had some problems of her own.
Starring: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Kenneth Graymez, George C. Wolfe
Director: Zach Braff
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
Drama | Romance
From 'Message in a Bottle' to 'The Notebook' cinematic adaptations of Nicholas Sparks's novels are sure to inspire tears, and this drama should be no exception. Diane Lane and Richard Gere, who previously played a couple in 'Unfaithul', star here as an unhappily married woman and a conflicted man drawn together by a storm in the town of Rodanthe, North Carolina.
Starring: Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Christopher Meloni, Viola Davis, Scott Glenn, Pablo Schreiber
Director: George C. Wolfe
