Holiday Heart
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| Directed by | Robert Townsend |
| Produced by |
Robert De Niro Brad Epstein Steven Felder Jane Rosenthal Cheryl L. West |
| Written by | Cheryl L. West |
| Starring |
Ving Rhames Alfre Woodard Mykelti Williamson Jesika Reynolds |
| Music by | Stephen James Taylor |
| Cinematography | Jan Kiesser |
| Edited by | Sabrina Plisco |
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| Distributed by | MGM Home Entertainment Showtime Networks |
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Release date
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December 10, 2000 |
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Running time
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100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Holiday Heart is a 2000 TV movie starring Ving Rhames, Alfre Woodard, and Mykelti Williamson. It was directed by Robert Townsend, aired on the cable TV channel Showtime, and was distributed on DVD by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was based on a play by Cheryl L. West, and involves a gay drag queen befriending a single mother and her daughter and trying to protect them from the criminal environment around them. It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, for Woodard's performance, among other award nominations.
Holiday Heart (Ving Rhames) is a homosexual black man who performs as a drag queen at a popular night club in the city. His mother trailed against him. He is talented, tough, compassionate, and a dedicated Christian, despite his sexuality. After his boyfriend dies, he befriends a down on her luck, drug addicted, single woman, Wanda (Alfre Woodard) and her young daughter Niki (Jessika Quynn Reynolds, in her film debut). Heart offers them a stable home and becomes a much needed father figure for Niki.
However, things go astray when the mother becomes addicted to drugs again and after a series of bad relationships, starts one up with a successful drug dealer Silas (Mykelti Williamson) who is as homophobic as he is chauvinist. Silas gives Holiday money and insists, with some threats, that he stay out of their life, which Holiday agrees to do before preparing to move to Paris.
Yet, both Silas and Wanda leave Niki alone. Silas has to go away on a "business" trip, because Wanda starts to use to much of his product, and she becomes a prostitute to feed her drug addiction. Holiday steps in to take care of Niki and raises her as his own daughter. Under Holiday's guidance, Niki is baptized at the local Church, and graduates from elementary school with honors.
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