Jackie's Back is a 1999 television movie directed by Robert Townsend. It premiered on the Lifetime Television Network on June 14, 1999.
Presented as a mockumentary, Jackie's Back chronicles the life and career of Jackie Washington (Jenifer Lewis), a 1960s/1970s R&B diva.
After several years of toiling in obscurity, Washington decides to
organize her own comeback concert with filmmaker Edward Whatsett St.
John (Tim Curry) filming the event. The film also features numerous cameo appearances by celebrities.
- Jenifer Lewis as Jackie Washington
- Tangie Ambrose as Shaniqua Summers Wells (Jackie's daughter)
- T.V. Blake as Antandra Washington (Jackie's daughter)
- Loretta Devine as Snookie Tate (Jackie's childhood friend)
- Tim Curry as Edward Whatsett St. John
- Whoopi Goldberg as Nurse Ethyl Washington Rue Owens (Jackie's sister)
- Tom Arnold as Marvin Pritz (Jackie's former manager)
- Robert Bailey, Jr. as Wilson Wells (Jackie's grandson)
- Alan Blumenfeld as Ivan
- Loren Freeman as Kim
- Johnny Brown as Reverend Eustace Barnett
- Julie Hagerty as Pammy Dunbar
- David Hyde Pierce as Perry
- Kathy Najimy as Lola Molina
- Kyla Pratt as Little Jackie Washington
- Isabel Sanford as Miss Krumes
- JoBeth Williams as Jo Face
- Mary Wilson as Vesta Crotchley (Jackie's 3rd grade teacher)
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