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Language
English
Description
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever." The story tells of a Black family's experiences in south Chicago, as they attempt to improve their financial circumstances...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When family's falling out, it's time to call in Aunt Bam to set a few things straight! Bam's nephew-in-law is granted weekend visitation with his children, but his drunken ex shows up with trouble in mind. Now it's up to Bam to calm things down.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The house that Tyler Perry built is back, each episode packed with revelations and laughter. Join the Payne family as they creatively, and hysterically, address everyday hurdles we can all relate to.
Publisher
Lions Home Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special edition, tenth anniversary DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 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!
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Just as Madea buries her sister, she must get ready for her granddaughter, Lisa, coming to get married at the house. As Madea must endure the craziness of her neighbor, Leroy Brown, and the dysfunctional relatives staying under her own roof for the weekend.
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Making marriage and family work is always a gamble, but there's no better place to find the odds working in one family's favor. Volume Seven of this hit series finds Pops, the clan's head man, once again faced with a full house of jokers, including son Calvin, nephew C.J., and C.J.'s kids, Malik and Jazmine. Fortunately, his loving and loyal wife, Ella, chips in to help deal with the real-life issues confronting everyone in this winning show.
10) This Christmas
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For the first time in years, the entire Whitfield clan comes home to celebrate Christmas and learn through the drama and emotional baggage how to be a family once again.
11) Soul food
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Director's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Brown discovers a letter from his deceased father asking him to 'take care of the old, ' he dutifully opens a senior-care facility. Then he finds the second page of his father's letter, finishing the sentence 'Thunderbird in the garage.' So begins Mr. Brown's big adventure which includes his daughter Cora and his nephew Will and his wife.
13) He got game
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With promises of a reduced sentence, Jake Shuttlesworth is granted temporary release from state prison in order to persuade the nation's top college basketball recruit, his estranged son Jesus, to play ball for the Governor's alma mater! Includes theatrical trailer.
14) The inkwell
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A quiet teenager lets himself go at the parties of his friends at Martha's Vineyard.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 646 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rich African-American family moves into a luxury apartment building and develops close, if occasionally fractious, relationships with other tenants. Includes 26 episodes.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Choosing a college and striking out on one's own is an exciting time that requires a big adjustment by both child and parent, but few parents will have as much difficulty relinquishing control over their daughter's life as Chicago police chief James Porter. A loving, but overprotective father, James wants his daughter Melanie to attend nearby Northwestern College. When she's waitlisted and called for an interview at Georgetown in Washington, D.C.,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rich African-American family moves into a luxury apartment building and develops close, if occasionally fractious, relationships with other tenants. Includes 24 episodes.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVD (7 hours, 23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Urkel's freshman year brings fresh fun for the Winslow family as Urkel becomes a martial artist to battle a playground menace, Eddie finds southern belle Myrtle Urkel haunting his dreams, the house gets haunted by Urkel's living ventriloquist dummy, Stefan sings with New Edition, and Aunt Oona goes on a date.
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVD (approximately 8 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Policeman Carl Winslow has enough to deal with on the job. But when he gets home, he still has to handle kids, a wife, Mom, a sister-in-law, and Urkel, the nerd next door, who doesn't understand that he doesn't actually live with the Winslows.
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