Movies / Corrina, Corrina (1994)
Runtime: 115 min
Languages: English
Countries: USA
Ray Liotta plays a 1950s jingle composer whose wife dies, leaving him to raise their grieving young daughter (Tina Majorino) alone. Dad hires an African-American housekeeper (Whoopi Goldberg), who helps fill the gap in the child's life--and then Dad's life--and soon an interracial relationship crossing the social mores of the era is underway. Written and directed by Jessie Nelson, the film is a spot-on recreation of '50s suburbia without gratuitous kitsch. Liotta is perfect as a working man of the day, given to white shirts and narrow ties; Goldberg gives one of her finest performances as the levelheaded Corrina; and little Majorino is heartbreakingly effective. But the film entirely bears the stamp of one person, and that's Nelson, who has a wonderfully witty eye and a sophisticated but sensitive approach to the crosscurrents of emotion at play in this story. --Tom Keogh
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Directors (1) | Credit |
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Jessie Nelson | ... |
Writers (1) | Credit |
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Jessie Nelson | (written by) |
Composers (1) | Credit |
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Rick Cox | ... |
Editors (1) | Credit |
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Lee Percy | ... |
Cinematographers (1) | Credit |
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Bruce Surtees | ... |
Actors (46) | Credit |
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Asher Metchik | Lewis Davis |
Ashley Taylor Walls | Mavis |
Brent Spiner | Brent Witherspoon |
Briahnna Odom | Lizzie |
Bryan A. Robinson | Chubby Boy |
Bryan Gordon | Business Associate |
Chris Chisholm | John Brennan |
Courtland Mead | Howard Davis |
Curtis Williams | Percy |
Don Ameche | Grandpa Harry |
Don Pugsley | Delivery Man 1 |
Erica Yohn | Grandma Eva |
Gene Baker | Himself (Queen for a Day) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Harold Sylvester | Frank |
Jenifer Lewis | Jevina |
Jevetta Steele | Club Singer |
Joan Cusack | Jonesy |
Johnny Olson | Himself (Name That Tune) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Jonathan Winters | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
June C. Ellis | Miss O'Herlihy |
Karen Leigh Hopkins | Liala Sheffield |
K.T. Stevens | Mrs. Morgan |
Kyle Orsi | Gregory |
Larry Miller | Sid |
Lin Shaye | Repeat Nanny |
Louis Mustillo | Joe Allechinetti |
Lucy Webb | Shirl |
Lynette Walden | Annie |
Marcus Toji | Tommy Wang |
Maud Winchester | Mrs. Rodgers |
Mimi Lieber | Rita Lang |
Nat 'King' Cole | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Noreen Hennessey | High Heels (as Noreen Hennessy) |
Patrika Darbo | Wilma, Car Hop |
Pearl Huang | Mrs. Wang |
Ray Liotta | Manny Singer |
Roz Witt | Mrs. Murphy |
Sean Moran | 2nd Delivery Man |
Shari Lewis | Herself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Steven Williams | Anthony T. Williams |
Sue Carlton | Mrs. Werner |
Tina Majorino | Molly Singer |
Tommy Bertelsen | Bratty Boy |
Wendy Crewson | Jenny Davis |
Whoopi Goldberg | Corrina Washington |
Yonda Davis | Woman in Audience |