Holiday Heart is a 2000 TV movie starring Ving Rhames, Alfre Woodard, and Mykelti Williamson. It was directed by Robert Townsend, aired on the cable TV channel Showtime, and was distributed on DVD by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was based on a play by Cheryl L. West, and involves a gay drag queen befriending a single mother and her daughter and trying to protect them from the criminal environment around them. It was nominated for a Golden Globe award, for Woodards performance, among other award nominations. Holiday Heart is gay drag queen who performs at a night club. He is talented, tough,... compassionate and a dedicated Christian. After his boyfriend dies he befriends a down on her luck, drug addicted, single woman, Wanda and her young daughter Niki . Heart offers them a stable home and becomes a much needed father figure for Niki. However, things go astray when the mother becomes addicted to drugs again and after a series of bad relationships, starts one up with a successful drug dealer Silas who is as homophobic as he is chauvinist.
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