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Two women sit casually on a zebra-print surface, sharing a warm, flirtatious moment - one wearing a white blouse and holding a wine glass, the other in a striped shirt, both looking at each other with bright smiles.

Cheryl and Diana

Movie — The Watermelon Woman (1997)

Rating for The Watermelon Woman

4.5(1)

Synopsis for The Watermelon Woman:

A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.

State of the story: Completed

Genres: drama, comedy, romance

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Romantic rating

3(1)

Chemistry rating

3(1)

The couple

Short description of the couple

Cheryl is a 25-year-old African-American lesbian film-maker who works at a video rental store, where she meets Diana. Their relationship is complicated by their race and class differences, and the power imbalance that this entails. Diana is not particularly self-aware.

Screen time: 10 to 30 minutes

Story importance: Secondary — it is not the main subject, but still very important

Tags: queer actress queer director

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Does this story focus a lot on a coming out storyline?

Is there cheating on a third party

How much homophobia does this depict? from 1 to 5

2 (from 1 to 5)

Does one of the people in the couple die?

Is the ending happy or sad?

Sad

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