African American Cinema on DVD
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Cooley High
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 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis, Corin Rogers Directed By: Michael Schultz Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Black high school seniors and their adventures in the early 1960s.Genre: Feature Film Urban DramaRating: PGRelease Date: 1-MAY-2001Media Type: DVD. |
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
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Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Jim Brown, Bernie Casey, Robert Colbert, Marilyn Coleman, Ja'net DuBois Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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A hilarious Soul Cinema send-up, this ultra-slick, urban action comedy blows 70's blaxploitation movies right out of the 'hood! Featuring the very funny Wayans family (Keenen, Damon and Kim), Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Ja'net DuBois, David Alan Grier, Kadeem Hardison and Chris Rock, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a perfect "mixture of nostalgia, silliness and genuinely unpredictable humor" (The New York Times). Jack Spade, a goody-goody war hero with medals for short-hand, returns to the ghetto to discover that his brother, Junebug, has OG'd (Over-Golded on jewelry). Jack swears revenge against the local gang boss, Mr. Big, and sets off to enlist an army of Shaft, Superfly and Black Caesarlook-a-likes, that is. |
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He Got Game
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Publisher: Walt Disney Video Starring: Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, Rosario Dawson, Hill Harper Directed By: Spike Lee Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Classic DVD. Exclusive interviews, highlights, and behind the scenes coverage. Academy Award(R)-winner Denzel Washington (Best Actor, 2001, TRAINING DAY) stars in this must-see story about a convict given one shot at a second chance to be a father! With promises of a reduced sentence, Jake Shuttlesworth (Washington) is granted temporary release from state prison in order to persuade the nation's top basketball recruit ... his estranged son, Jesus (Ray Allen of NBA's Milwaukee Bucks), to play ball for the governor's alma mater! But just as Jesus faces intense pressures and irresistible temptations contemplating his big decision, Jake is also forced to consider not only what's best for himself ... but what's best for his son! With a groundbreaking soundtrack by the legendary Public Enemy -- plus great cameos from John Turturro and basketball personalities Dick Vitale, John Thompson, Dean Smith, and more, HE GOT GAME is a critically acclaimed hit you don't want to miss!. |
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Pootie Tang
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Publisher: Paramount Starring: Reg E. Cathey, Lance Crouther, Chris Rock, Robert Vaughn, Jennifer Coolidge Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Pootie Tang pushes blaxploitation to the point of surrealism. The title character--who first appeared on The Chris Rock Show--speaks a kind of slang on steroids, an incomprehensible stream of nonsense syllables that nonetheless makes him irresistible to women and a threat to evildoers everywhere. Pootie is part movie star, part superhero, righting wrongs with the slap of his daddy's belt. But when an evil corporation uses a super-ho named Ireenie (Jennifer Coolidge from Best in Show and Legally Blonde) to steal this magic belt, Pootie must find himself again. |
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In the Heat of the Night
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Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates Directed By: Norman Jewison Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Starring Academy AwardÂ(r) winners* Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger and Lee Grant, this provocative mystery thriller won** five 1967 OscarsÂ(r), including Best Picture. Highlighted by an evocative score from OscarÂ(r)-winning*** composer Quincy Jones, In The Heat Of The Night is a "powerful film" (The New York Times) that delivers the "highest level of exciting entertainment" (New York Daily News)! While traveling in the Deep South, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder investigationof a prominent businessman when he is first accused of the crimeand then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, however, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the bigoted town sheriff (Steiger). But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside their differences and prejudices, they join forces in a desperate race against time to discover the shocking truth. *Poitier: Actor, Lilies of the Field (1963); Steiger: Actor, In the Heat of the Night (1967); Grant: Supporting Actress, Shampoo (1975) **Actor (Steiger), Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Sound ***1994: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. |
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The Brothers
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Publisher: Sony Pictures Starring: Tatyana Ali, Bill Bellamy, Julie Benz, Angelle Brooks, Vanessa Bell Calloway Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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THE BROTHERS is a fresh and hilarious look at four African-American "brothers" lifelong friends who band together to navigate through the turbulent waters of love and sex on their way to healthy happy and committed relationships. Jackson (Morris Chestnut- The Best Man) is a successful pediatrician who is desperate for intimacy but terrified of commitment. Brian (Bill Bellamy- Love Jones) is the sexy old-school bachelor who fights tooth and nail to protect his independence from women he thinks are undeserving of him. Terry (Shemar Moore- TV's "The Young and the Restless") is a renowned womanizer who desperately wants to settle down. |
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Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream
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Publisher: MPI Home Video Starring: Martin Luther King Jr. Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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"I have a dream today." On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King spoke these words as he addressed a crowd of more than 200,000 civil rights protesters gathered at The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Two months earlier, President John Kennedy had sent a civil rights bill to Congress, but it was struck down. Although Kennedy was concerned about the possibility of widespread violence during this protest, he realized he was powerless to stop it and embraced the movement instead. Known as the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," the country expected to hear King deliver strong words to his opponents. Instead, his "I Have a Dream" speech was one of heartfelt passion and poetic eloquence that still echoes in our memory.. |
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House Party
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Publisher: New Line Home Video Starring: Paul Anthony, B-Fine, Verda Bridges, Tisha Campbell, Barry Diamond Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The raucous events leading up to and after the 'mutha' of all urban teen parties. Starring Kid 'n Play and Martin Lawrence. Directed by Reginald Hudlin.. |
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Backstairs at the White House
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Publisher: Acorn Media Starring: Olivia Cole, Leslie Uggams, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen Directed By: Michael O'Herlihy Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The classic miniseries about two remarkable women and the eight First Families they served Their unrivaled behind-the-scenes access gives White House staff a uniquely personal view of history in the making. Two remarkable women in one family served as White House maids over a period spanning five decades and eight administrations—from Taft to Eisenhower. Their story and a half-century of American history unfold in this star-studded drama, nominated for 11 Emmy® Awards.. |
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Crooklyn
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Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Vondie Curtis-Hall, N. Jeremi Duru, Frances Foster, Zelda Harris, David Patrick Kelly Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Spike Lee's semiautobiographical, 1994 film about the good and bad times for a Brooklyn family in the '70s has passion and nostalgic good feeling, but it is also a mess of random reflections and arbitrary storytelling. The centerpiece of the movie is a little girl (Zelda Harris) who views the ups and downs of her parents' experiences (mom and dad are played by Delroy Lindo and Alfre Woodard), and who navigates the life of her neighborhood. Lee tosses in a lot of '70s detail (watching The Partridge Family) and other diversions (Harris's journey through suburbia), but he has no master sensibility controlling the flow of it all. The film is more wearying than anything, although bright spots include Lindo's fine performance as a talented man suffering from irrelevance. --Tom Keogh. |
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