African American Cinema on DVD
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Slaughter
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 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Jim Brown, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn, Cameron Mitchell, Don Gordon Directed By: Jack Starrett Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Ex-pro football hero Jim Brown (The Dirty Dozen, Ice Station Zebra) is El Mucho Macho (Interview) in this fast-paced revenge fest highlighted by 'slick values and direction long on action (Variety)! Featuring hair-raising auto chases and bloody shootings at a lightning pace (Motion Picture Herald) and co-starring Rip Torn, Slaughter is an exercise in unmitigated mayhem (The Hollywood Reporter)! Ex-Green Beret Slaughter (Brown) sets out toget the mafia man who blew up his folks car with them still in it! But when he blows up a planeload of mob henchmanhe finds himself the pawn of Feds who were also on the trail. Ordered to tail the mob murderers to South America, Slaughter will use any means possiblefrom bedding a beautiful mafia babe (Stella Stevens) to blowing up a few vehicles of his ownto get his man! The appropriately titled Slaughter (New York Daily News) is one killer entertainment!. |
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Men of Honor
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Publisher: 20th Century Fox Starring: Powers Boothe, David Conrad, Robert De Niro, Jr. Cuba Gooding, Hal Holbrook Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robert De Niro deliver powerhouse performances (Chicago Tribune) in this triumphant epic inspired by the life of Carl Brashear.Men Of Honor tells the courageous tale of an African-American sailor (Gooding) who dared to dream of becoming a U.S. Navy Master Diver. Despite a ruthless training officer (De Niro) and a tragic shipboard accident Carl's iron will is never broken. |
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Two Can Play That Game
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Publisher: Sony Pictures Starring: Anthony Anderson, Lee Anthony, Cherise Bangs, Zatella Beatty, Bobby Brown Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The writer of How to Be a Player turns a hilariously candid eye toward the complex and comical issues of dating relationships and the ongoing battle between the sexes; featuring a happening and sexy cast including Vivica A. Fox (Independence Day Booty Call) Morris Chestnut (The Brothers The Best Man) Anthony Anderson (Big Momma's House Exit Wounds) and Gabrielle Union (The Brothers Bring It On Love and Basketball). Shante Smith (Fox) is a beautiful advertising executive who seems to have her life - and her man - completely under control. Her relationship with Keith (Chestnut) a handsome lawyer is the envy of her friends until one night when the girls stumble upon Keith at a nightclub with another woman. Now Shante is forced to launch her Ten-Day Plan to get her man back in line save face with her friends and climb back on top of her strained relationship.System Requirements:Running Time: 91 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 043396071070 Manufacturer No: 07107. |
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The Human Stain
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Publisher: Miramax Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Wentworth Miller Directed By: Robert Benton Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Academy Award(R) winners Anthony Hopkins (1991 Best Actor, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) and Nicole Kidman (2002 Best Actress, THE HOURS) along with Gary Sinise (FORREST GUMP) and Ed Harris (THE HOURS) star in the provocative mystery THE HUMAN STAIN. Coleman Silk (Hopkins) has a secret. A terrible 50-year-old secret that the esteemed college professor has kept hidden from everyone — including his wife, his children, and his down-and-out young lover (Kidman) — and it's about to ruin his entire life.. |
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Paul Mooney: Know Your History - Jesus Was Black ... So Was Cleopatra
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Publisher: Image Entertainment Starring: Paul Mooney, Marsha Warfield, Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, Sandra Bernhard Directed By: Bart Phillips Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Few comedians can stir up controversy like the legendary Paul Mooney -- writer for Richard Pryor, creator of In Living Color's Homey the Clown and featured guest on Chappelle's Show. With his characteristic brutal honesty, Mooney passionately and hysterically charges into the electrified currents of racial tension. In this magnificent standup performance at Hollywood's Laugh Factory, Mooney earns a standing ovation with his relentless no-holds-barred observations on black history, stereotypes and prejudices, living in White America, celebrity divas and much, much more!. |
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A Lesson Before Dying
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Publisher: Hbo Home Video Starring: Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall, Brent Jennings Directed By: Joseph Sargent Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Based on the New York Times No.1 bestselling novel and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Don Cheadle and Cicely Tyson star in 'A Lesson Before Dying." Grant Wiggins (Don Cheadle) has become resigned to racial injustice in the south. Returning to his home town with a college degree he continues to teach in the same one-room school of his youth. Struggling to make a difference in an oppressive time and place Grant is called upon by two local women Tante Lou and Miss Emma to visit the town prison. There Jefferson a simple young man has been convicted of a murder he did not commit and sentenced to die like an animal. |
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Beloved
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Publisher: Walt Disney Video Starring: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beah Richards Directed By: Jonathan Demme Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Oprah Winfrey (THE COLOR PURPLE) and Danny Glover (LETHAL WEAPON IV, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS) play the unforgettable lead roles in a powerful, widely acclaimed cinematic triumph from Jonathan Demme -- the Academy Award(R)-winning director of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. On a difficult journey to find freedom, Sethe (Winfrey) is constantly confronted by the secrets that have haunted her for years. Then, an old friend from out of her past (Glover) unexpectedly reenters her life. With his help, Sethe may finally be able to rediscover who she is and regain her lost sense of hope. Also featuring outstanding performances from Thandie Newton (GRIDLOCK'D) and Lisa Gay Hamilton (TV's THE PRACTICE) -- you'll agree with critics everywhere who've hailed this landmark adaptation of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as one of the year's finest films!. |
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon
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Publisher: Lions Gate Starring: John Lennon, Pat Nixon, Chris Charlesworth, Everett Dirksen, Gloria Emerson Directed By: David Leaf, John Scheinfeld Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The compelling and provocative story of John Lennon's evolution from beloved Beatle to outspoken artist and activist to iconic inspiration for peace and how in the midst of one of the most tumultuous times in American history Lennon stood his ground refused to be silenced and courageously won his battle with the U.S. Government.System Requirements:Run Time: 96 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: PG - 13 UPC: 031398209119 Manufacturer No: 20911. |
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Blue Streak
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Publisher: Sony Pictures Starring: Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Peter Greene, Dave Chappelle, Nicole Ari Parker Directed By: Les Mayfield Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Martin Lawrence can certainly talk a blue streak (witness his concert film, You So Crazy), but he tones it down to PG-13 for this by-the-book action comedy. Lawrence stars as Logan, a bank robber and jewel thief (nice role model we're supposed to cheer for) who, just before he is arrested, manages to stash the $20 million diamond he has just heisted at a construction site. When he is released from prison two years later, he returns to the scene of the crime only to find that the completed building houses a police station. To get inside and retrieve the precious gem he secures a fake ID and passes himself off as LAPD's newest, and most unorthodox, detective. |
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Ray (Widescreen Edition)
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Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Clifton Powell, Harry J. Lennix Directed By: Taylor Hackford Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Jamie Foxx's uncannily accurate performance isn't the only good thing about Ray. Riding high on a wave of Oscar buzz, Foxx proved himself worthy of all the hype by portraying blind R&B legend Ray Charles in a warts-and-all performance that Charles approved shortly before his death in June 2004. Despite a few dramatic embellishments of actual incidents (such as the suggestion that the accidental drowning of Charles's younger brother caused all the inner demons that Charles would battle into adulthood), the film does a remarkable job of summarizing Charles's strengths as a musical innovator and his weaknesses as a philandering heroin addict who recorded some of his best songs while flying high as a kite. Foxx seems to be channeling Charles himself, and as he did with the life of Ritchie Valens in La Bamba, director Taylor Hackford gets most of the period details absolutely right as he chronicles Ray's rise from "chitlin circuit" performer in the early '50s to his much-deserved elevation to legendary status as one of the all-time great musicians. |
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