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Emma Mae: Directed by Jamaa Fanaka. With Jerri Hayes, Ernest Williams II, Charles D. Brooks III, Eddie Allen. A Naive Country Girl from Mississippi comes to town with an aunt to the Big City.
Plot. Black Sister's Revenge is about a teen moving from a small Southern town in Mississippi to live with her family in Los Angeles. When Emma Mae (Jerri Hayes) first moves to Los Angeles, she's introduced to Jessie Amos (Ernest Williams III) with whom she instantly falls in love. Jessie and Zeke (Charles David Brooks III) are eventually ...
When her mother dies, Mississippi bumpkin Emma Mae (Jerri Hayes) goes to live with her cousins in Los Angeles. She quickly falls in with smooth-talking drug ...
With the $5K bail over his head, she tries a couple of ways both good and bad to raise money to get him out only to learn he really is a loser and doesn't love her. She proves for a Country Girl she is smart and resourceful. — Thicknigg@yahoo.com. A native young girl from the South moves in with her relatives in a Los Angeles ghetto.
When her mother dies, Mississippi bumpkin Emma Mae (Jerri Hayes) goes to live with her cousins in Los Angeles. She quickly falls in with smooth-talking drug ...
The original title, "Emma Mae," is much more appropriate, as this really is a character-based drama. It is technically raw, and the acting takes a little getting used to, but the film's unpolished ...
Emma Mae was shot entirely in Compton, California, where Fanaka's family relocated when he was 11. The character of Emma Mae was based on Jamaa Fanaka's cousin, Daisy Lee, who was sent to Compton from Crystal Springs, Missouri, every year for summer vacations. Jerri Hayes was a Theatre student at UCLA when she was cast as Emma Mae.
