Ryan Michelle Bathe Movies
- 2008
A high school senior with brains but no sense of direction attempts to choose between his own ambitions and his devotion to the ones he loves after his mother announces that her new boy toy is moving in. Andrew may live with his mother, but the roles of parent and child have been reversed for years. One night, over dinner, Andrew's mother announces that her younger boyfriend, an aspiring country singer, is coming to live with them. Everything Andrew knows is changing, and in order to keep from getting swept up in the rising tide he'll have to take stock of his own life, and finally decide what it is that he really wants. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kevin Sheridan, Michelle Clunie, (more)
Award-winning filmmaker Christine Swanson follows up her feature debut All About You) with this romantic drama concerning two desperate Hollywood filmmakers who make the journey from Los Angeles to Mississippi in hopes of convincing Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman to take the lead in their latest production. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Boris Kodjoe, Ryan Michelle Bathe, (more)
- 2006
A geeky cowboy helps a self-destructive sculptor come to terms with her dark past by helping her to confront the fear that keeps her from forming any meaningful human connections. April is a blind sculptor who was rejected by her father as a child, and has since grown up to be fiercely independent. When April encounters David, she is terrified at the thought that there is someone out there who might be able to see through her pain. Later, upon learning April's secret, David performs an act of selflessness that prompts the damaged object of his affections to confront her deepest fears and finally risk intimacy. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Stephanie Reibel, William McNamara, (more)
A black family gets a first-hand look at the trials and tribulations of upward mobility and suburban segregation in this pointed comedy. In 1973, Tom (Danny Glover) is an African-American attorney who is determined to raise himself up by his own bootstraps from his position near the bottom of the totem pole at a law firm. Tom takes on a case no one else is willing to touch -- defending a confessed arsonist whose crime claimed the lives of two teenagers -- and when he manages to score a surprising legal victory for his client, Tom is given a promotion and he moves his family to a new home in the suburbs. However, Tom and his wife Mabel (Whoopi Goldberg) discover they're only the second black household to move into the neighborhood (the first was a woman who struck it rich in the lottery), and housewife Mabel soon learns her neighbors aren't especially open to the notion of ethnic diversity in their community. Good Fences was directed by former cinematographer Ernest Dickerson and produced in part by his frequent collaborator Spike Lee; the film was screened in competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, (more)
