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Cora Unashamed is a TV film from The American Collection directed by Deborah M. Pratt, starring Regina Taylor and Cherry Jones, and released in 2000. The film was shot on location in October 1999 in central Iowa. Cities such as Ames, Cambridge and Story City were used. The movie is based on a short story by the same name in The Ways of White Folks, a collection of short stories by Langston Hughes. Cinematographer Ernest Holzman won an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award, for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Mini-Series'/Pilot for Network or Basic Broadcast TV, for his work on this film. David Herbert Donald called the short story "a brilliantly realized portrait of an isolated black woman in a small Middle Western town, who stoically survives her own sorrows but in the end lashes out against the hypocrisy of the whites who employ her."
Original Release
10/24/2000
US Release
10/24/2000
Cast
Name | Character |
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Regina Taylor | Cora Jenkins |
Cherry Jones | Lizbeth Studevant |
Ellen Muth | Jessie a 18 anni / Jessie at 18 |
Michael Gaston | Arthur Studevant |
Kohl Sudduth | Joe |
Arlen Dean Snyder | Dr. Siebels |
CCH Pounder | Ma Jenkins |
Tinashe | Josephine |
Molly Graham | Jessie at 5 |
Ben Easter | Willie Matsoulis |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Regina Taylor | Cora Jenkins |
Cherry Jones | Lizbeth Studevant |
Ellen Muth | Jessie a 18 anni / Jessie at 18 |
Michael Gaston | Arthur Studevant |
Kohl Sudduth | Joe |
Arlen Dean Snyder | Dr. Siebels |
CCH Pounder | Ma Jenkins |
Tinashe | Josephine |
Molly Graham | Jessie at 5 |
Ben Easter | Willie Matsoulis |
Tiffany M. Wren | Mary at 13 |
Melissa Albright | Mary at 26 |
Tom Woodward | Reverend Macelroy |
Bethany Larson | Muriel Debord |
David Fritts | Tom Debord |
Stephen George | Luther Jenkins |
John Easter | Mr. Matsoulis |
Logan Rees | Paperboy |
Jessica Beebe | Townswoman |
Jim Brockhohn | Farmer |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Rebecca Eaton | Executive Producer |
Anne Hopkins | Executive Producer |
Stephen Kulczycki | Executive Producer |
Marian Rees | Executive Producer |
Ronald Colby | Producer |
Andrea Lapins | Producer |
Marian Rees | Producer |