Lifetime will premiere three
movies in celebration of Black History Month. The first entitled Betty & Correta starring Golden Globe
Award-winner and American Academy-nominee Angela Bassett as Coretta Scott King
and nine-time Grammy Award winning singer Mary J. Blige as Dr. Betty Shabazz. The
second entitled Twist of Faith stars six-time
Grammy Award winner Toni Braxton, Mykelti Williamson and David Julian Hirsh.
The third rounding out the original movies scheduling is entitled Pastor Brown,
with Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Rockmond Dunbar, Ernie Hudson and Tisha
Campbell-Martin, Nicole Ari Parker, and Michael B. Jordan.
Betty & Coretta
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Angela Bassett portrays Coretta Scott King (L)
and Mary J. Blige portrays Dr. Betty Shabazz in a scene from Betty & Coretta. Photo credit: Jan Thijs
Focusing on the extraordinary women
behind the two men who would change history, Betty & Coretta tells
the similar true stories of Coretta Scott King (Bassett), wife of Dr. Martin
Luther King (Malik Yoba) and Dr. Betty Shabazz (Blige), wife of Malcolm X (Lindsay
Owen Pierre). When their husbands were tragically assassinated, these two women
not only inherited the mantle of the civil rights movement in America, each
also found herself to be a single mother who had to find a way to raise and
support her children with no husband or father, resulting in a relationship
like no other that spanned more than three decades.
Betty & Coretta will premiere Saturday, February 2, at 8:00pm ET/PT. Movie Preview: http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/betty-and-coretta/video
Twist of Faith
 David Julian Hirsh (Jacob) and Toni Braxton (Nina) are shown collaborating musically in a scene from Twist of Faith. Photo credit: Ed Araquel
In Twist of Faith, Jacob
Fisher (Hirsh), an Orthodox Jewish Cantor and amateur songwriter who resides in
Brooklyn, New York, witnesses the senseless murder of his wife and three
children. Catatonic, Jacob walks out on his Jewish mourning ritual, leaving
behind his Jewish garments, wallet and keys. Abandoning his identity, he
wanders aimlessly, hoping somehow to understand his tragedy. Fortuitously, he
lands in Brent, Alabama (population 2,500), where he is embraced by Nina
(Braxton), a single mother and the lead singer of a small gospel choir (an
unlikely finalist in the competition to determine the best gospel choir in
Alabama), her Uncle Moe (Williamson) and their gospel community who help his
return to life while music brings Nina and Jacob together as they try to make sense
of his past and their possible future.
Twist of Faith will premiere Saturday, February 9, at 8:00pm ET/PT.
Pastor Brown
 In Pastor Brown Salli Richardson-Whitfield and Rockmond Dunbar share an enjoyable evening out. Photo credit: Quantrell Colbert
In Pastor Brown, a
wayward preacher’s daughter, Jessica “Jesse” Brown (Richardson-Whitfield), returns
home for the first time in more than a decade after her father (David) falls
terminally ill. Her father’s dying wish – that Jesse take over as head of the
Mount Olive Baptist Church – turns her and her family’s lives upside down.
Jesse reluctantly undertakes her father’s commission, thereby pitting herself
against her sister (Parker) and the leadership of Mount Olive Church who know
of her sordid past. Through accepting her father’s request, Jesse embarks upon
a path that will change her life when she reconnects with her family and
estranged teenage son (Jordan) and finds the dignity and self-love she lost
long ago. Pastor Brown will premiere Saturday, February
16, at 8:00pm ET/PT.
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