Mary Alice

Oprah Winfrey, Jackee Harry, Robin Givens and Cicely Tyson star in this gripping drama about a group of strong-willed women living in the rundown housing project of Brewster Place-a street overflowing with tales of courage and anguish.

As a hotshot city lawyer, the last thing Clara wants to do is return to the turtle-paced life of Savannah. When tragic news forces her to return home, Clara plans for a short trip and quick good-byes, but she is drawn into the mystery of a lone man living deep in the woods.

A transplanted Southerner helps other women living in a tenement on a dead-end street.

Harry, a devilish charmer from the Deep South, turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short order, Harry's presence turns a seemingly peaceful household upside down, exposing smoldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation. Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poetic-realist images, it is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous...

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.