My Other Mother, an UP Original Movie

MOVIE REVIEW

My Other Mother

Network: UP

Original Air Date: September 21, 2014

CAST:

Essence Atkins ... Candace “Candy” Meyers
Lynn Whitfield ... Mary Jo
Jasmine Guy ... Evelyn
Kendrick Cross ... Lews
Greg Alan Williams ... Abner
Angie Stone ... Delores
Mike Whaley ...
Todd Anthony Manaigo ...
Freddy Nelson ...

PLOT:

via UP-- My Other Mother marks the fifth film to be produced and air on UP as a direct result of the network’s highly successful “UP Faith & Family Screenplay Competition,” now in its fourth year. The script is by Keronda “KiKi” McKnight, the Winner in last year’s UP Faith & Family Screenplay Competition at the American Black Film Festival (ABFF).

In My Other Mother, Candace “Candy” Meyers (Essence Atkins) is a successful anchor on a top-rated national magazine show. Fiercely independent and committed to her job, Candy doesn’t make many friends with her demanding, gruff nature. In fact, her only true friend might be her long-time manager Lewis (Kendrick Cross). Candy discovers that an anonymous fan she’s had for years has passed way – and he was her biological father Freddy Nelson! Content with the love and support of her adoptive family, Candy has never been curious about her biological parents. That all changes when she travels back for her father’s funeral, meets the Nelson family – including biological uncle Abner (Greg Alan Williams), Freddy’s wife Delores (Angie Stone) and her two step-brothers – and discovers that her reclusive, angry and stubborn birth mother, Mary Jo (Lynn Whitfield) is going to be a challenge. The journey these two surprisingly similar women take getting to know each other will break down walls and open them up to a life they never knew was possible.


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