Mary Alice Movies

Down in the Delta

68/100

Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts ... See full summary »

To Sleep with Anger

71/100

A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family.

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce

67/100

Dwayne and his older sister Mai are adults: Mai is married to Vinh, Dwayne is about to propose to Nina. Twenty-two years ago, when Mai was 10, she and Dwayne were refugees in Vietnam, ... See full summary »

The Wishing Tree

60/100

After her mother's death, Clara, a middle-aged attorney, returns home to Savannah, where she begins to realize how much she misses her roots. Clara reminisces with old friends about her ... See full summary »

The Vernon Johns Story

71/100

Vernon Johns, a brilliant man coupled with an eloquent speaker, upsets his community through his radical ideas on social change and economic independence of blacks. From his pulpit, he ... See full summary »

The Sty of the Blind Pig

92/100

Lawman Without a Gun

59/100

During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.

Just an Old Sweet Song

75/100

A black family from Detroit takes a two-week vacation in the South. The trip changes their lives.

Heading Home

62/100

Set in 1971 during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration, Heading Home tells the story of an unlikely friendship. Horace, Frankie Faison "Silence of the Lambs", "Coming to America", TV's "The ... See full summary »

Requiem for a Nun

It is eight years since Temple Drake, the central character of William Faulkner's Sanctuary, was raped, kidnapped and forced to live in a brothel. She is now married and is the mother of a child. Will her past be revealed?