
Saturday Night Life
2006-06-22 · 12 min · ★ 1.0
Writer-director Ava DuVernay's short drama concerns a poor, struggling single mother whose trip with her three children to a 99-cent store in Los Angeles becomes an unexpectedly uplifting family experience. Melissa DeSousa ("The Best Man") stars.
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- Ava DuVernay
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- The DuVernay Agency
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- United States of America
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- Released
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James BlackThe Admirer
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