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Mariah Carey has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s.
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2007
Comedy · Drama
Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.
Dir. Lee Daniels · With Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo
In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.
Dir. Lee Daniels · With Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton
as Melissa Atkinson · Director
Kristin has just had to close her small Manhattan clothing boutique to return to her Ohio home town and live in her parents' former home. It's an adjustment for Kristin and her young daughter— especially when she runs into her former high school rival. Kristen and Emily struggle to find their new normal with the help of the hunky local music teacher.
Dir. Mariah Carey · With Lacey Chabert, Brennan Elliott, Kathy Najimy
An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do anything -- including faking his own death and going head-to-head with an Arab cab driver -- to make his dreams come true.
Dir. Dennis Dugan · With Adam Sandler, Emmanuelle Chriqui, John Turturro
A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.
Dir. Vondie Curtis-Hall · With Mariah Carey, Max Beesley, Da Brat
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