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Cindy

6 average rating
6
English / 98 MIN. / 1978

The Genres

The Synopsis

A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a country bumpkin who moves from South Carolina to live with her father and his new family. When her stepmother and two stepsisters refuse to take her to the Sugar Hill Ball, her draft-dodging, chauffeur neighbor whips up a little "magic" and at the ball she catches the eye of the richest man in Harlem.

The Cast

Charlayne WoodardScoey MitchellMae MercerNell CarterAlaina Reed HallCleavant DerricksClifton DavisW. Benson TerryJohn HancockRichard StahlNoble WillinghamBurke ByrnesHelen MartinGraham BrownBill Phillips MurryDon DandridgeSpo-De-OdeeBoyd BodwellJoe GeorgeDon AbneyHarold AceyDavid DysonJames S. MeredithJake Vernon PorterRobert Smith

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