Margaret Avery
Language
English
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Description
An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.
2) Proud Mary
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary is a hitwoman working for an organized crime family in Boston. Her life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes awry.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
R.J. Stevens is a successful television talk show host who sets aside his perfect life with his sweet son and celebrity girlfriend to attend his parents' golden wedding anniversary back home in Georgia. From the moment he arrives, all the reasons R.J. left to reinvent himself on the West Coast become clear. His siblings and cousins quickly put him in his place, reminding him that his name is actually Roscoe Jenkins. His sweet mother watches impassively...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brenda grew up with some incredible hardships. She had a prostitute for a mother and a pimp for a 'father.' Now, Brenda is a single mom struggling to raise her family in Chicago. When she receives a letter inviting her to attend her father's funeral in Georgia, she's not sure how to feel. Growing up, Brenda never knew the man and hadn't interacted with that part of her family. But when she loses her job, she decides that now's the time to shake things...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When Frank Collins suffers from writer's block, he decides to start a day care for his father-in-law and other seniors as a way to make quick cash, while giving him time to still work on his next book. Eventually getting a small group to care for, Frank soon learns that these are not your typical seniors and they cannot easily be corralled. With a code enforcement officer challenging the legality of his business, and his senior charges getting into...
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Basketball's Dr. J, Julius Erving, operates on the competition in this hoop-it-up disco-era fantasy about a team on a winning streak when it signs up motley players born under the zodiac's fish sign of Pisces. Will the Dr. in the house, trademark cloud-walking, net-shredding slam dunks are plentiful. More hoops excitement follows as the Harlem Globetrotters' Meadowlark Lemon handles the rock as if he had more arms than an octopus and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Set in a time where color roles have been reversed, Louis Pinnock (John Travolta), a poor man of the ghetto, struggles to support his family. When he loses his job at the whim of the factory's owner (Harry Belafonte), Louis decides to take on the system by taking on his former boss.
11) Lord help us
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Kayla and her best buddy, Jewels, help a recently widowed Baptist minister regain his flock and his life as they battle a scandalous rumor.
13) The sky is gray
Publisher
Monterey
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on the short story by Ernest J. Gaines. In rural Louisiana in the 1940's a young black boy journeys with his mother and absorbs valuable lessons of pride, charity and dignity.
15) Dark passages
Publisher
PBS Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Employes a mixture of interviews, slave narratives, and dramatization. Tells the story of the impact of the Atlantic slave trade. Takes the viewer from the House of Slaves on Goree Island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, to the village of Juffere on the Gambia River.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Car Wash (PG): An irreverent but affectionate look at a typical day in a Los Angeles car wash. Which way is up? (R): The story of an orange picker who accidentally becomes a union hero and leaves his wife and family at home while he seeks work in Los Angeles where he finds a new woman and starts a second family. Brewster's millions (PG): Montgomery Brewster is a down-and-out baseball player who discovers that he is the only living relative of an eccentric...
17) Which way is up?
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Which Way Is Up? (1977): Richard Pryor plays three roles - a beleaguered, sex-starved farm worker named Leroy Jones; the farm worker's randy old father Rufus; and the hypocritical town preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas - and Pryor has never been so outrageously funny. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor King (1976): Three barnstorming ballplayers take on prejudice and unfair rules while stealing cars, food, and home base.
18) Scott Joplin
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating story about the life of the ragtime great best known for his song, 'The Entertainer'. Joplin began his career touring as a piano player in bordellos around the country. When he is discovered during a piano competition by the famous music publisher John Stark, Joplin turns into an instant success, composing songs so popular that he becomes the first black composer to be allowed to play at the World's Fair. [It] recounts Joplin's determination...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The goonies: A band of misfit kids searches for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. The kids befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
Batman: There's a new breed of criminals in Gotham City, led by the infamous joker. Their random attacks via acid-based make-up are just the beginning.
Beetlejuice: After Barbara and Adam Maitland...