 Diary of a Mad Black Woman 2005  PG-13, 116 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Darren Grant
Cast: Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Shemar Moore, Tamara Taylor, Lisa Marcos, Tiffany Evans, Cicely Tyson, Tyler Perry, Terrell Carter, Carole Mitchell-Leon, Avery Knight, Vickie Eng
Based on Tyler Perry's hit stage play, this story switches back and forth from comedy to melodrama. Helen (Kimberly Elise) thinks she is living the perfect life: married 18 years to successful attorney Charles (Steve Harris), beautiful mansion, and wealth–until Charles kicks her out and wants to marry her best friend (Lisa Marcos). Helen returns to her ghetto roots and tries, successfully and unsuccessfully, to put her past with Charles behind her.
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge 1999  R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martha Coolidge
Cast: Halle Berry, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Brent Spiner, Obba Babatunde, Loretta Devine, Cynda Williams, Tamara Taylor, LaTanya Richardson, D.B. Sweeney, William Atherton
The troubled life of Dorothy Dandridge–the first black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress (1954's "Carmen Jones")–is insightfully portrayed by Halle Berry. The story begins with Dandridge's early vaudeville acts and continues through her professional triumphs, which culminated tragically in her fatal overdose on prescription drugs.
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Senseless 1998 R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Cast: Marlon Wayans, David Spade, Matthew Lillard, Rip Torn, Tamara Taylor, Brad Dourif, Kenya Moore, Richard McGonagle, Esther Scott, Ken Lerner
College student Darryl Witherspoon (Marlon Wayans) needs money and thinks he has found the answer to his problems by volunteering as a guinea pig in a test of a new drug to increase the five senses to a super-human level. The plot is silly, but the film provides a good forum for Wayans to display his comic talent.
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| 1. Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
2. Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
3. Senseless (1998)
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