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Language
English
Formats
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...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
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...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the values of her small town.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Lions Home Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2003 and the class of 1953 will be having their 50th reunion. When Madea shows up, you know it's going to be a whopper!
11) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tyler Perry stars in this one-person comedy. He portrays Madea, whose sister dies on the same weekend her granddaughter is supposed to get married. Madea combines these events into a family reunion, and it only costs her $75.
13) Steel magnolias
Publisher
Sony Pictures Television
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Steel Magnolias is an American comedy-drama television film directed by Kenny Leon that premiered at Lifetime Network on October 7, 2012. It is the remake of 1989 film of the same name. The new film stars an all-African American cast.
14) Beloved
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe & Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tyler Perry's new musical stage play starring the infamous Mabel Simmons or 'Madea' as her fans know her. When a judge orders Madea to do 20 hours of community service at a local retirement home, the residents and staff are not ready for Madea's brand of 'the truth'. All's well that ends well when Madea helps the residents of Easy Rest Retirement Home realize the importance of family, love and forgiveness.
16) Phat girlz
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A talented designer of plus-sized fashions gets fed up with a world that rejects her for being overweight. But her life is about to change when she goes on vacation in Palm Springs.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
See what happens when a family is torn apart by one sister's selfishness and another sister's refusal to let go of the love of her life. All the while, Madea is in rare form and is determined to get and keep the family together.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
DVD, widescreen (2.35 1) Dolby Digital.
Language
English
Description
Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand in mother for Lilly. Rosaleen insults some of the biggest racists in their town. Lily and Rosaleen run away to a town Lily believes that her mother once lived in. They go to live with the three Boatwright sisters on their honey farm. She finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.
20) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (approximately 146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
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