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Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The Girls Club is the coming-of-age story of a young, white, working-class woman. Set in the 1970s, the story revolves around Cora Rose as she copes with her emerging sexuality, an illness her sisters refer to as "the dreaded bowel disease," and the conflicts created by the growing disparity between her desires and her Catholic upbringing. Part one deals with the three sisters' adolescent relationship to each other and their Catholic working-class...
Language
English
Formats
Description
A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world.
4) The help
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
6) Harriet
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history." --
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When Claire meets Malik she is instantly swept off her feet by this charming young spiritual leader. But when Malik's true colors are revealed, her father Moses must protect both her and their community from danger. Bonus features included.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Alexis, is a successful single real estate mogul, with a seemingly perfect life. Having raised her two sons and daughter as a widow, she has given her family a life of privilege and opportunity. Despite Alexis' success as a businesswoman, she finds things coming apart at the seams when her children discover a secret from their past that shakes the family to its core. Includes bonus features.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A divorced L.A. lawyer, Peter, thinks he has met the girl of his dreams online, until she shows up at his door and is a sassy, African American ex-con. She moves in and really begins to shake up his boring suburban lifestyle.
14) Soul food
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Sunday dinner at Mother Joe's is a mouth-watering, 40-year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad, love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine and her sisters Teri and Bird. But when serious bickering starts to tear the family apart, the good times suddenly stop. Now it's up to Ahmad to get everyone back together and teach them the true meaning of soul food.
17) Incognito
Publisher
Urbanworks
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful, young and wealthy corporate executive witnesses a brutal crime and becomes a key witness. When the murderer is released and seeks revenge, her father hires a handsome bodygaurd to protect her from the psychotic killer.
18) Hidden figures
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
19) Video girl
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Lorie Walker is a small town girl whose dreams of becoming a dancer come true when she finds fame as a Hip Hop music video star. But when her new career leads her down a dangerous path, she realizes that life in front of the camera is not as glamorous as it seems"--Container.
20) Bulworth
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Believing his career is over, Senator Jay Bulworth takes out an enormous insurance policy and a contract on his own life. His impending death fills him with an outrageous desire to break the rules and tell it like it is.