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Eavesdropper (DVD)
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Spike Lee's racial and political filmmaking bent is given the full treatment with this simmering expose of racial tensions in a New York City neighborhood one scorching summer day. The film, written by Lee (and nominated for an Oscar), follows a group of racially diverse inhabitants from Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood as they spend their day trying to avoid the oppressive heat. These include African American pizza deliveryman Mookie (Lee), the racially sensitive Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), and the silent, boom-box-blasting Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn). Also thrown into the mix are Sal (an Oscar-nominated Danny Aiello), the Italian-American proprietor of Sal's Pizzeria, as well as his two sons, Pino (John Turturro) and Vito (Richard Edson), who hold completely opposing attitudes when it comes to race. After Buggin' Out tries to organize a boycott of Sal's because of the lack of racial diversity on his shop's Wall of Fame, the tensions explode in an act of senseless violence. Lee's film is an electric work of political entertainment that confronts sensitive racial issues head-on. He deftly blends humor and drama as well as using specific music to further amplify his theme (Public Enemy's song Fight the Power actually becomes the film's main catalyst for action). Boldly closing the film with opposing quotes from Malcolm X and Martin Luther King on the nature of race relations, Lee leaves it up to the viewer to decide if Mookie's actions were the correct ones. Aiello and Esposito are standouts in an all-star cast that includes Lee himself, his sister Joie, discovery Rosie Perez, and the married team of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Always one to spark controversy, Lee's summer drama finds the filmmaker at the peak of his craft.
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Liam Neeson stars as Alfred Kinsey, a man driven by scientific passion and personal demons to investigate the elusive mystery of human sexuality. Laura Linney garnered a Best Actress Oscar. nomination for her compelling performance as Kinsey's free-thinking wife. This provocative drama dares to lift the veil of shame from a society in which sex was hidden, knowledge was dangerous and talking about it was the ultimate taboo.
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Lin Yang (Anna May Wong) is a schoolteacher asked to perform heroics in this World War II-era thriller. Set in China, the film follows Yang as she tries to figure out who is leaking vital information about the Allied forces to the Japanese. Having had her memory permanently scarred by the terrible fates meted out to some of her friends, Yang performs the task with a steely determination. Corralling a group of fellow intrepid souls, the heroic teacher must act fast before more information is leaked and further bloodshed occurs. Shot in 1942, BOMBS OVER BURMA features a strong performance from Anna May Wong, who fought hard against racial stereotyping in Hollywood, and helped open up more interesting roles for Chinese-American actresses.
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From the HOLLYWOOD SAFARI TV series producer Henri Charr comes this feature length story about the Johnson family who train animals for the movie industry from their California ranch. When a mountain lion gets loose from the set, residents feel terrorized and ask for it to be destroyed, but what they don't know is that one mountain lion belongs to the family, and another, wild lion, is the one causing problems!DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep Case
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