Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.

Pelopidas and his wife, Pelagia, receive a visit from their fiery daughter, Dora, who announces that...

A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father a...

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...

A group of hapless friends stumble into a plot involving mobsters, bounty hunters, beauty queens, an...

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no vis...

A young woman's rise to fame after she wins a beauty contest is cut short when she marries an ex-con...

A teenage boy reluctantly turns to the streets to earn $6,000 a month for his mother's cancer medici...

The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier N...

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowb...

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gl...

Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an ...

Led by Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, 22 families from a rural Black church in the small East Texas...

11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she de...

This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in ...

To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beaut...

The teenagers of a rural community are confronted by the not-so-charming realities of their hometown...

A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.

Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Arc...

New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most elig...

Fresh out of prison after drugging the matcha latte of her pageant competition, a young and accompli...