Esther Rolle – MRQE

To Dance with the White Dog (TV)

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When Sam Peek’s beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on writer Maya Angelou’s eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.

Summer of My German Soldier (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and is unable to understand why her father can’t seem to love her. Her town eventually becomes host to a prisoner of war camp. A young german soldier escapes from this camp, and Patty finds him hiding in her secret places in the woods outside of town. After getting to know him she ends up harboring him from his captors, and, in the way of many adolescents, falls in love with him. Patty knows what she is risking to help him, but in his company she feels important, special, and respected as she has never been. In the end, his regard lifts her self-esteem and helps her to face the heartbreaking events to come.

Age-Old Friends (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

John Cooper is in a retirement home. There are strict rules for the residents, but he refuses to fall into passivity. He flirts constantly with Nurse Wilson and spends time with his best buddy Michael Aylott, who’s slowly drifting into senility.

Down in the Delta

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.

House of Cards

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When Ruth Matthews’s husband is killed in a fall at an archaeological dig, her daughter Sally handles her father’s death in a very odd manner. As Sally’s condition worsens, Ruth takes her to see Jake, an expert in childhood autism. Jake attempts to bring Sally out of her mental disarray through traditional therapy methods, but Ruth takes a different route. She risks her own sanity by attempting to enter her daughter’s mind and make sense of the seemingly bizarre things that Sally does, including building a wondrous house of cards

Driving Miss Daisy

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters in a time when those types of relationships where shunned.

The Mighty Quinn

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Although the local political establishment, especially crooked Governor Chalk, insists that small-time thief Maubee is responsible, Xavier has his doubts. This view is complicated by the police chief’s personal history with Maubee: The men have been friends since childhood.

Ethnic Notions

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This documentary traces the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.

Don’t Play Us Cheap

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The comedic tale of two minions of the devil who crash a Harlem party thrown by Miss Maybell with high hopes of destroying its festive atmosphere. The first of the imps to arrive, Trinity, loses sight of his mission and consequently falls in love with Miss Maybell’s impressionable young niece Earnestine. Trinity is later joined by Brother Dave, his older, more jaded partner. But as Dave pulls out all the stops to dampen the mood, he serves only to enhance the partygoers’ good spirits.