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Vanessa Williams has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Desperate Housewives.
Playing God
1997
Drama · Action
Desperate Housewives
2004 · Series · Actor
Top 10%Hulu · Included
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 50%Prime Video · Included
Hoodlum
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 63%MGM+ · Included
Ugly Betty
2006 · Series · Actor
Top 85%Hulu · Included
The Odyssey
1997 · Mini · Actor
Top 90%Prime Video · Included
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.
Dir. Marc Cherry · With Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross
as Amanda Waller (voice) · Voice
Amanda Waller's top-secret "Task Force X" — consisting of Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Killer Frost, Captain Boomerang, Harley Quinn, and Copperhead — is on a mission to retrieve a mystical object so powerful that they're willing to risk their lives to steal it. However, the Suicide Squad isn't the only group of villains seeking to possess the object. It's a race for the golden prize, and second place isn't an option if they want to stay alive.
Dir. Sam Liu · With Christian Slater, Billy Brown, Kristin Bauer
Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas. It soon becomes clear Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby is the biggest hope for the studio at the championship.
Dir. Randa Haines · With Vanessa Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson
It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro, learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on their friend's bar to further an expanding empire. Harley and Marlboro decide to help by robbing the crooked bank. But when they accidentally filch a drug shipment, they find themselves on the run from criminal financiers and the mob in this rugged action adventure.
Dir. Simon Wincer · With Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Chelsea Field
Judith has known her husband Brice since they were children, but now their marriage is growing stale. Having just completed her graduate work in psychotherapy, she's eager to begin a career as a marriage counselor. She takes an internship at a matchmaking firm for millionaires and meets Harley, a charismatic billionaire investor who makes no effort to hide his attraction to Judith. Although quite resistant at first, eventually Judith succumbs to his charms, placing her marriage in jeopardy and forever altering the course of her life.
Dir. Tyler Perry · With Jurnee Smollett, Lance Gross, Robbie Jones
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
Dir. Bill Duke · With Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Vanessa Williams
A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.
Dir. Chuck Russell · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams, James Caan
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
Dir. John Singleton · With Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognise George as a missing millionaire, Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation.
Dir. Maurice Phillips · With Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mercedes Ruehl
Nate Johnson, a Los Angeles man estranged from his wife and three children, decides to reconnect with his family by taking them with him on a road trip to Missouri for a big family reunion.
Dir. Christopher Erskin · With Cedric the Entertainer, Vanessa Williams, Solange
Wannabe writer Betty Suarez is a plain girl from Queens, who is smart, hardworking and savvy but lacks a fashionable sense of style. When publishing mogul Bradford Meade puts his son Daniel in charge of Mode magazine, he hires Betty to be Daniel's new assistant -- mostly because he knows that she may be the only woman in Manhattan with whom the younger man won't sleep.
Dir. Silvio Horta · With America Ferrera, Eric Mabius, Vanessa Williams
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.
Dir. James Toback · With Molly Ringwald, Robert Downey Jr., Dennis Hopper
Warrior Odysseus leaves his idyllic life in the kingdom of Ithaca to fight in the Trojan War. Following victory, he now must endure a lengthy, decade-long return journey, and with all his wits, overcome deadly monsters, powerful forces of nature, seductive enchantresses, and even journey into the bowels of the Underworld.
Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky · With Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Rossellini
14,000-year-old "Man from Earth" John Oldman, now teaching in northern California, realizes that not only is he finally starting to age, but four students have discovered his deepest secret, putting his life in grave danger and potentially destroying the world's most popular religion.
Dir. Richard Schenkman · With David Lee Smith, Vanessa Williams, Michael Dorn
What would you do to have everything you desire? Step inside 666 Park Avenue, New York's most seductive address. We all have some burning needs, desires and ambitions. For the residents of The Drake, the premier apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side, these will all be met – for a price – courtesy of the building's mysterious owner, Gavin Doran. But be careful what you wish for, because the price you have to pay is your soul.
Dir. David Wilcox · With Rachael Taylor, Dave Annable, Terry O'Quinn
