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Showing posts with label Romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romance. Show all posts

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Who Made the Potato Salad? (2006)
















































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Storyline
Michael (Jaleel White), a young San Diego police officer, is so thankful that his beautiful girlfriend Ashley (Jennia Fredrique Aponte) has accepted his marriage proposal that he decides to meet her family over Thanksgiving dinner. But nothing can prepare Michael for what Ashley's family is about to serve up: Her dad's a Black Panther, her brother's a gangbanger, and her grandparents...well, they still got! By dessert time, Michael has to wonder whether he has the stomach to handle his new perspective in-laws.

Thursday, April 1, 2021

The Courage to Love (2000, TV Movie)











































Starring:
In pre-Civil War New Orleans, Vanessa Williams portrays the beautiful African-American daughter of a wealthy white plantation owner and his kept mistress. Fighting her family's wishes, society's rules, and rampant racism, she rejects the traditions of an arranged marriage and sets out on a journey fraught with danger and forbidden desires.