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4) Stir crazy
Language
English
Description
Two zany drifters are mistakenly sent to prison for a robbery they didn't commit. They must rely on their wits in order to survive a sadistic warden, a hulking mass-murderer and worst of all, the inter-prison rodeo.
5) Lost highway
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Fred Madison is a saxophonist who finds a video tape on his doorstep that shows the interior of his house, he becomes convinced that someone has broken in and calls the police. Fred finds another videotape showing him killing his wife. The police arrest and accuse him, under mysterious circumstances, of murdering his wife. In prison, he inexplicably morphs into a young man named Pete Dayton and begins living a completely different life. When Pete...
6) The Wiz
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Thirtieth anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
A schoolteacher in Harlem is whisked away by a snowstorm to a fantasy New York City in order to find herself.
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Crude. Foul. Real. In a word, that's Richard Pryor live in concert. In this, the funnyman's first concert film, Pryor does dead-on impersonations of the respective races, cussing, trying to act tough, getting kicked in the privates. But it's his imagination that elevates him to a different level and hints at the comedic genius of the man.
11) Wattstax
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Thirtieth-anniversary special edition.
Language
English
Description
On August 20, 1972, more than 100,000 people attended what came to be known as 'the black Woodstock.' Wattstax documents this historic event and includes the once-lost original ending.
12) California suite
Language
English
Description
Five couples have come to the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles for diverse reasons, and they must all confront some rather amusing personal dilemmas.
15) The toy
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Gleason is U.S. Bates, a megalomaniac millionaire who owns most of south central Louisiana. Pryor is Jack Brown, a former journalist who has worked his way down the vocational ladder to the position of janitor in Bates' department store. Bates' son, Eric, selects an elaborate toy--Jack Brown--and the relationship teaches Eric more about life than fun and games.
16) Harlem nights
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Eddie Murphy stars as Quick who has a scheme to keep mobsters from muscling in on the 1930s Harlem hot spot Club Sugar Ray.
17) Bustin' loose
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Joe is an ex-con given a second chance after violating his parole. He has been hired by a schoolteacher to drive a group of special kids to their new home. Joe's a bit unnerved by their mental problems, but soon they bond and become friends.
19) Car wash
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's just a typical day in the lives of the employees, customers and passersby of a Los Angeles car wash - but what a day! There's a would-be robbery-an assembly line of the weirdest, baddest, shadiest characters you've ever met-and lots of booty-bumping music to pass the hours till quitting time.
20) Silver streak
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A wild action comedy about a murder mystery aboard a cross-country train.
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