MISS MARCH
FRANKIE AND ALICE
Title: FRANKIE AND ALICE
Distributor: Cinesavvy
Stars: Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgard
Producer: Vincent Cirrincione
Based upon the true story of a young black go-go dancer suffering from multiple personality disorder in 1970’s Los Angeles. Frankie has one alter personality that is a child genius while the other is a seductive racist who thinks she’s white. Frankie gets sentenced to stay in a mental institution when the personalities cause her to commit violent activities she can’t remember. While under the care of Dr. Oz, she must learn to trust him in order to fix and cope with the disorder.
THE FINAL HIT
Title: THE FINAL HIT
Distributor: USA Network
Stars: Burt Reynolds, Benjamin Bratt, Sean Astin, Lauren Holly
Producer: Vincent Cirrincione
Burt Reynolds plays an aging Hollywood producer. Knowing that he is soon going to die or not to have anymore importance, he bets all he has, all his love for the cinema, all his strengh, in doing his last movie, his best work, something for which he wants the people to remember him by.
LACKAWANA BLUES
Title: LACKAWANA BLUES
Distributor: HBO Films
Stars: Ruben Santiago Hudson, Terrance Howard, Liev Schreiber, Rosie Perez, Mos Def, Macy Gray
Producer: Vincent Cirrincione
An Award winning television movie based on the true story of Ruben Santiago Jr. and his relationship with his guardian Rachel Crosby, set in 1950’s and 1960’s Lackawanna, New York. After the separation of his parents, young Ruben “Junior” Santiago, a part-black, part-Hispanic child, is sent to live in a small-scale boarding house run by the kind-hearted Rachel “Nanny” Crosby and her younger husband Bill. Ruben then grows up witnessing the world of soul and blues music and grows to know the various characters that Nanny takes into her household to help out, from disturbed Ol’lem Taylor; one-armed handyman Mr. Lucious; hairdresser Bertha; war veteran Lonnie; ex-convict Mr. Paul; butch cleaner Ricky and many others.
INTRODUCING DOROTHY
DANDRIDGE
Title: INTRODUCING DOROTHY DANDRIDGE
Distributor: HBO
Stars: Halle Berry, Loretta Devine, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Obba Babatunde
Producer: Vincent Cirrincione
An Award winning television movie biography of Dorothy Dandridge that follows her career through early days on the club circuit with her sister to her turn in movies, including becoming the first black actress to win a Best Actress Nomination in 1954 for “Carmen Jones”, to her final demise to prescription drugs, which was debated whether it was suicide or accidental. Brent Spiner plays her faithful manager who stood beside her through all of the roller coaster of her career. The film also examines her love affair with director Otto Preminger, which is shown to have probably initially helped her career, but later probably led her to some wrong decisions. The film also examines 50’s racism as the black star is not permitted to use white bathrooms or the Vegas pool. In the first situation, she was given a bathroom cup to pee in. In the second situation, the hotel drained the pool and scrubbed it after she dared put her foot in the water.