Whoopi Goldberg

Perfectionistic Jerzey desperately wants to be a good ballet dancer like her sisters, but her efforts to learn are repeatedly thwarted, until she finds help in an unexpected place.

When her mother moves the family to Harlem and enrolls her in the Nutcracker School of Ballet, reluctant dancer Alexandrea is picked to be the Sugar Plum Fairy in the big recital.

Alice was expensively educated, but disappoints everyone by choosing to trek round the world, keeping the company of lame ducks. When she decides to marry Chris Warren, who owns a fast car and a beautiful house, Alice's mother breathes a sigh of relief. However, although Alice professes to love Chris, it transpires she knew when she married him that all was not well. Her friends and family can only watch helplessly while she ferrets into his past, risking her life, until she herself forces the tragic climax.

Brenda Black prides herself on her logical and orderly mind. She studies anatomy books to get a head start on medical school and idolizes Leonardo da Vinci. Things go haywire, though, when her spoiled cousin Tiffany comes to visit. At first Brenda tries to ignore Tiffany's bragging. But when Tiffany implies that Brenda is not cultured enough to know who Miss Camilla Freeman is -- Miss Camilla Freeman, the very famous prima ballerina -- Brenda snaps. She tells Tiffany that she happens to own an autographed pair of Miss Camilla Freeman's toeshoes. So of course, Tiffany wants to see them. The only problem? The shoes belong to Ms. Debbé, the headmistress of the Nutcracker School of Ballet! Brenda's anatomy books won't get her out of this mess -- for that, she'll need the help of her Sugar Plum Sisters!

The veteran comedian and co-host of "The View" uses her trademark humor to examine the growing disrespect and rudeness in society and discusses how a loss of civility diminishes the quality of life.

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When Epatha tries to spice up the choreography of the new ballet in Harlem with her free-spirited style, the rest of the Sugar Plum ballerinas encourage her to keep her toes in line.

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