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Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (624 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Situation comedy revolving around George Jefferson, a successful, irascible African American businessman and his long-suffering wife Louise, who have moved to a high-rise apartment on the East Side of Manhattan. These episodes focus on the Jeffersons' housekeeper, Florence.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 338 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
African-American dry cleaner king George Jefferson and his sassy, no-nonsense wife Louise "Weezy," as leave their blue-collar neighborhood, "movin' on up" to a luxury high-rise apartment in New York City.".
3) Precious
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain,...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Twentieth anniversary edition ; [Two-disc twentieth anniversary edition].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tensions are growing, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie is Sal's delivery boy. Radio Raheem has the letters of love and hate written on his hands. He is defiant and together with a motivated Buggin Out, push Sal and his sons to their breaking point. The cops intervene, using force and brutality to apprehend the large...
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1980, a young man named Marvin Grant was gunned down in Flatbush Brooklyn. Clarence Lewis, a fifteen-year-old with a penchant for lying, told the police he saw what happened and was pressured to identify a suspect. This set into motion a series of events that led to the arrest of Colin Warner, an innocent teenager who lived in nearby Crown Heights.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shortly before his father's death, Prince Akeem learns that he sired an illegitimate son during his last stay in the United States and now he has to return to Queens to retrieve him to ensure a male successor to the throne.
7) Madigan
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
©1999
Edition
[DVD version includes production notes, cast and filmmakers' bios., film highlights, and the theatrical trailer. English and French tracks, Spanish subtitles and English captioning].
Language
English
Description
"In New York City's Spanish Harlem, police detectives Dan Madigan and Rocco Bonaro break into a sleazy apartment and arrest Barney Benesch, a hoodlum wanted for questioning by a Brooklyn precinct. Momentarily distracted by Benesch's nude girl friend, the two detectives are outwitted by Benesch, who escapes with their guns. When it is discovered that Benesch was wanted for homicide, Madigan and Bonaro are reprimanded by Police Commissioner Anthony...
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